Just damn. Another warbird gone.

[Grey Ghost]

P-51(Big Beautiful Doll) and a Skyraider struck each other at the Duxford airshow today. The Skyraider was able to land with a chunk of missing wing. The Mustang pilot bailed out and is okay.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f229/jerryholmes/9.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f229/jerryholmes/Big-Beautiful-Doll.jpg

[LATB]

a group of guys fly them around here...out of the Destin airport

those are incredible machines close up...I was able to view them one day and w0w!

a couple of them did a cool fly over on the 4th with the red white & blue smoke streams...real cool when you are at an out door concert and the lady is singing the national anthem.

[ConstantChange]

Damn! Glad everyone is okay.

[OddBall]

:sadangel: Damn

[JRD77VET]

:sadangel: Damn

Unique sound

YouTube - ‪P51 MUSTANG LOW/FAST PASS‬‏

YouTube - ‪P-51 Mustang super low pass‬‏
better :hurray:

[RedLS1GTO]

:(


What a beautiful plane that was.

David O'Maley, the owner of "Cincinnati Miss" is from my hometown.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/P-51_Cincinnati_Miss.jpg/799px-P-51_Cincinnati_Miss.jpg

He founded, and is now the Chairman of the Board for the Tri-State Warbird Museum, right up the road from my father's house. I never get tired of going to see them, or watching them fly overhead every so often.

http://www.tri-statewarbirdmuseum.org/

[mrvette]

:sadangel: for the plane lost, and :hurray: the pilots are ok....


and :lol::lol::cheers::cheers::hurray::hurray: yippie skippy for the ones still flying....

cool plane, all guts and power....

[99 pewtercoupe]

Damn...there are only so many left. They are not quite as rare as some other WWII birds but nothing else captures peoples imagination like a P51

[Uncle Pervey]

Two big thrills in my life were backseat rides in a P-38 and a P-51 when I was a kid. My uncle was a retired WWII pilot and was friends with a lot of the old war birders. Every time we had a air show locally my uncle got me all sorts of benefits that normal air show visitor never gets to see.
We got rides in B-25's (my uncle was a B-25 pilot in the Pacific) and a B-17. They were very cool, but the best was the Mustang. I was crammed up in the back on a jump seat (where the armor plate and radio was, on a WWII fighter.) It was hotter than hell and I nearly puked (I didn't) it was great. I don't remember the name of the P-51 or the pilot, but I do remember the P-38 pilot's name and the name of the plane. The pilot was Revis Sirmon and the plane was the "Scatterbrain Kid." About 10 years after my ride, the plane was lost in a crash, the pilot was not Mr. Sirmon but a friend of his. Mr. Sirmon died a couple of years ago at about 90 years old.

[Grey Ghost]

I had an uncle that flew P-38s in the Pacific during the war. He had some great stories about flying.

[onedef92]

That mofo got a serious Rolls-Royce Merlin engine in 'em, too. Unmistakable exhaust note.