Originally Posted by
munnst
Sounds similar to two P51's (iirc both were racers?) that collided during landing some years ago although on that occasion one had touched down and the other ran into it. I seem to recall one lost it's tail. The other winged over. Both destroyed.
The mustangs were at Oshkosh, and the P-51D that had landed got swiped by a P-51A, which took off the D's left elevator and horizontal stab, and chopped a slice half way though the fuselage just aft of the bubble/radiator scoop. The A rolled over inverted and didn't end well. The D driver was unharmed, the A driver was totalled. The A model was rebuilt, as was the D, the A was re-engined with a Griffon 56?, and contra prop from a Shackleton, the back was chopped down, D style, and the tail became an H type. Got sold thereafter to Kissimmee to Thom Richards, "Precious Metal". She got bent again a few years back, and is back being rebuilt.
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