Reno air show crash

Vulcan · 18 Sep 2011 at 21:33

freak2002 · 18 Sep 2011 at 22:06

^^ fake?

not a mustang. spitfire I believe. its missing the under body intake.
**edit** Not a spitfire sry.

Vulcan · 18 Sep 2011 at 22:10

That is the Mustang, it's just not the well known P-51D with it's protruding bubble canopy.

KnightStalker · 18 Sep 2011 at 22:13

Yea its the first type of Mustang, not the later bubble canopy version.

P51-B if my memory is correct.

sanaxe1 · 20 Sep 2011 at 13:37

Cosimo · 20 Sep 2011 at 13:48

DiCe! · 20 Sep 2011 at 14:01

Bloody hell!^^

MooMoo444 · 20 Sep 2011 at 14:04

sanaxe1 said:
youtube vid

Holy **** that could have been a lot worse, wow..

molinari · 20 Sep 2011 at 14:14

None of the planes were flying directly over the crowd, they were in a circuit which was in front of them. The loss of control was the reason this one crashed into the crowd. There are a few videos up now of the crash. There is also an image of the plane before the crash showing a small section missing out of the rear elevator on the horizontal stabiliser which is a possible cause for the loss of control: Photo

Death toll up to 10 now, hopefully no more.

Greebo · 20 Sep 2011 at 14:31

Interesting to note on that link that it was a heavily modified plane having had it's wings shortened etc to make it faster.

Larkspeed · 20 Sep 2011 at 15:06

molinari said:
Photo.

Well that missing piece even though small would have a fairly drastic impact on the handling of the plane.

Any time the rear elevator was used the plane would have a tendency to want to roll over as the forces would be uneven.

SteveOBHave · 20 Sep 2011 at 15:24

Larkspeed said:
Well that missing piece even though small would have a fairly drastic impact on the handling of the plane.

Any time the rear elevator was used the plane would have a tendency to want to roll over as the forces would be uneven.

You're correct - the 'Stang has a great dependency on the tail control surfaces... especially in the unlimiteds, the threshold for things going wrong is significantly smaller than in the original warbirds. Hell the engines alone have almost twice the power of the original spec.