Many thanks for posting the G-FIRE article Mothminor.

Look forward to reading it in full!

Cheers

Paul

The Hangar 11 Collection unveiled the new scheme for its P-51D Mustang this afternoon. It is ‘Tall in the Saddle’ as flown by George Hardy of the 332nd Fighter Group – the Tuskegee Airmen. George is still alive, aged 90, and took a great interest in the project. The aircraft will be displaying at Biggin Hill later this month.

Oh yes, very nice! 🙂

And many thanks again to all those who keep us updated with all the happenings at NW throughout the year.

Cheers

Paul

Actually the two Buchons have swapped tips for the duration of filming.

I wondered if that was the case!

Here’s some close up footage of the ‘new’ scheme, courtesy of the FlyPast Youtube channel: –

Cheers

Paul

Mustang low and quite quick heading East over old Hatfield airfield 11.50 this morning.

P-51D (most probably G-SHWN from Gooodwood), heading roughly in the direction of Woking, nice and fast about 11.35 this morning.

And what a lovely sound!

Cheers

Paul

Thanks Paul, very interesting.

I don’t suppose you have a copy of John Allisons comparison, I have looked on the Web and can’t find it.

Regarding the mk1 I hear the ailerons were very heavy until they replaced the fabric versions with metal skinned versions, is that shown in your table?

Thanks again,
Tony

Tony,

The John Allison article was in the June 2001 copy of Pilot Magazine.

I was/am in the process of scanning many of these pilot reports etc, so when I’ve done this one, I ‘ll send you a copy.

The various charts are available on the web, but finding them can be sometimes difficult, and I can’t always recall where I got them from!

However, I’ll send you all I’ve found and obtained to date. (PM me with your email).

Cheers

Paul

P.S. I do have one that shows roll rate of the fabric covered ailerons with the metal covered ones btw.

Paul (178),

You don’t happen to write for one or more of the national papers do you?

I say that, because you seem to spurting out the same sort of rubbish and misinformation (are you really an aviation enthusiast?) that they and the rest of the media have been ever since the Shoreham tragedy.

Whatever way you look at it, it was a tragic accident in which 11 people sadly lost their lives. But I think you’ll find it was the aircraft in which Andy Hill was piloting killed these people, and not him.

I often think of how the media would be reporting the accident if it had happened over the airfield instead, but with no casualties.

I’m sure we would be seeing no end of stories and replays on how the pilot had ‘miraculously survived’ what looked like an ‘unsurvivable’ accident, and no doubt many clips of it on those ‘Narrow Escape/Shocking Moments’ type reality programmes, and everyone banging on what a lucky guy he was.

But that’s the media for you.

Cheers

Paul

Nice!

I note that the Lone Star Hurricane (damaged in a landing mishap with Bill Greenwood’s Spitfire a few years back and then flood damaged) is up for sale at $495,000 ‘as is’: –

http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!hurricane-n96rw/qzv5n

Looks like quite a bit of work (££ or $$) is needed to get it back in the air again.

Cheers

Paul

Would love to see and hear a video of the tied down ground run.

https://www.facebook.com/The.Fighter.Collection

Cheers

Paul