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Old 22nd Nov 2008, 23:08
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barit1
 
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OK, it's time for me to see you drool.

The reason I have not listed the P-51 is that almost a half-century ago I won a lottery, and the prize was a half-hour in the back of a P-51H - the ultimate production Mustang. It was several hundred pounds lighter than a P-51D, with attendant effect on TO roll and climb rate.

Although I enjoyed the aerobatics, the thing that sticks with me is the SLOW turn rate and LARGE turn radius at cruise speed. We rolled into a 60` right bank, felt 2.0 Gs centripetal force, yet the nose barely crept around the horizon. An object lesson in Newtonian physics!
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