I can't say... I was going purely on published numbers, since I've never flown a P-51.
Let's be honest . . . did the P-51 have a faster Vne, or are those stories about 400+ knots just something that happened because there was a war on and because we hadn't thought of NATOPS yet?
Maybe it is because Mustang owners today aren't out thrashing the engines and pulling a lot of G that I (we, collectively) don't really know how the airplane performs in a post-Boyd air combat world.
I doubt two seats weigh more than six .50 cal's, 1800rds of ammo and about three times as much fuel.Was muddling this during my one mile walk to the boat...
Would removing the substantially heavier load out of ejection seats that the P-51 didn't have be a fair consideration in this argument?
Pretty large handicap to performance...
I think back then your first solo was in a T-34A.On a slightly un-related thought, I've heard tales that the T-28 had similar numbers to a Mustang. Must have been quite a beast for your first solo.
Ya, your right. Forgot the Mentor has been around since the 50s.I think back then your first solo was in a T-34A.
My uncle was in flight school in the 60s and said the jump from the T-34A to the T-28 was huge. You went from flying the little docile T-34 to the beast that was the T-28.Ya, your right. Forgot the Mentor has been around since the 50s.
Yep, I was thinking just that. Sounds like you've humped a 50, at least through a hangar or a parking lot.I doubt two seats weigh more than six .50 cal's, 1800rds of ammo and about three times as much fuel.
Pretty certain my pilot buds in 1979 that went T-28s for primary only flew the Trojan. No T-34 lead in.I think back then your first solo was in a T-34A.
I went through primary at Saufley in early '76 in the T-34B.Pretty certain my pilot buds in 1979 that went T-28s for primary only flew the Trojan. No T-34 lead in.
On a slightly un-related thought, I've heard tales that the T-28 had similar numbers to a Mustang. Must have been quite a beast for your first solo.