P51D Videos

Mac, You're welcome to fly with us! We regularly put up public servers to allow people to come and fly with us and, as a benefit for us, it also gives us the chance to scout new pilots should we every need one. We found our right wing in a public server we hosted... At the time he was just starting out with formation but we like his dedication to getting better. Anyway, he started flying in our public servers a lot and we helped him with a few tips and leading him a lot. When our original right wing had to leave the team, we immediately had a replacement to turn to :)

Thanks, Rock. If I can catch your server up and you have a spare bird, I'd love to try some of your maneuvers with you!

See ya in the skies!

Rock what site you guys on?

Cheers!!!

Hi Rextar, We're currently rebuilding our site so, at the minute, the best way to keep up to date is either our topic on here or facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevirtualhorsemen

Will do rock,many thanks!

Here's an awesome crash, me and a friend were casually flying low for fun and i had to share this spectacular mistake:

Practicing at Gudauta (again)

I don't know how long the YouTube audio will last but here is a video of my practice this weekend.

Note: this is flying with DCS World 1.2. The flight model has been improved and, well, I'm a happy man!

I don't know how long the YouTube audio will last but here is a video of my practice this weekend.

 

Note: this is flying with DCS World 1.2. The flight model has been improved and, well, I'm a happy man!

 

Great flying! Me likee!!

just a track of me playing around in the p51 in the laitest patch for dcs world i love smooth and close formation flying

playing around.zip

I don't know how long the YouTube audio will last but here is a video of my practice this weekend.

 

Note: this is flying with DCS World 1.2. The flight model has been improved and, well, I'm a happy man!

 

thanks for the heads up on how to snap roll last night. great to fly online with you. the snap rolls are too much fun. trying the climbing flat spin makes sense now in how to execute it but still cant stop the bird from righting itself half way through the move. any tips there ? and at what stage do you drop the manifold?

Keep the power up and keep the control input :)

Mustang vs. Bridge (spoiler: Mustang wins :huh:)

Climbing flat spin

thanks for the heads up on how to snap roll last night. great to fly online with you. the snap rolls are too much fun. trying the climbing flat spin makes sense now in how to execute it but still cant stop the bird from righting itself half way through the move. any tips there ? and at what stage do you drop the manifold?

Pull full power hard into vertical by watching out the side of the cockpit. The horizon should be perpendicular to your plane. Climb for 3 to 4 seconds to insure you have enough altitude for the maneuver. A left snap roll takes advantage of the engine torque. Start your maneuver above 250 kias, kick full left rudder and full left aileron and full up elevator (hard rudder, and stick hard back and to the left). Wait until you feel the spin begin, quickly pull back the manifold only (RPMs full), neutral stick but keep the hard left rudder. You should be hanging upside down by this time.

That's how I do it. Once you stop spinning, neutral rudder, wait until your nose drops, ease in the manifold (watch out for carb-cough) to full power, aileron to orient the way you want to go, and pull out of your dive.

By the way, the reason I was having so much trouble on the ground was my joystick was in the process of dying. It is now completely in pieces. I have emailed Thrustmaster who asked for some photos of the mess. Hopefully, they will let me ship it to them for repair (at my expense since I broke it!) I don't think I will be flying this coming weekend. We'll see.

Bridge over troubled airplane.

Mustang vs. Bridge (spoiler: Mustang wins :huh:)

Practice flying in a straight line in a 45 degree bank without dropping much altitude. Then try the same railroad bridge at a 45 degrees bank. I've seen an A-10 do it in FC2. But the flight model, then, was arcade-ish.

Practice flying in a straight line in a 45 degree bank without dropping much altitude. Then try the same railroad bridge at a 45 degrees bank. I've seen an A-10 do it in FC2. But the flight model, then, was arcade-ish.

Does this count?

EAA Warbirds in Review P51 at Oshkosh

http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=309059983001

Does this count?

 

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Man, you're going to do some damage to that bridge if you keep doing that!

:music_whistling:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150947251111610 arming a Mustang.

what a great video. keep them comin'

I learned some things tonight:

1) P51 wings are made of fire, with a thin sheet of metal-like material to keep the fire in. I was pretty sure of this already but this video proves it.

2) Ctrl-F11 camera is awesome.

3) Apparently flaming pieces of P51 can be used to trim power lines.

Would someone consider doing me a custom skin? I'd like to name my bird "Fireball", with some flames on the side etc. It doesn't have to look too fancy, just like a big messy flaming ball of wreckage; it's sure to blend in with the actual flaming ball of wreckage I will create shortly after grabbing the controls..

I learned some things tonight:

 

 

1) P51 wings are made of fire, with a thin sheet of metal-like material to keep the fire in. I was pretty sure of this already but this video proves it.

 

2) Ctrl-F11 camera is awesome.

 

3) Apparently flaming pieces of P51 can be used to trim power lines.

 

Would someone consider doing me a custom skin? I'd like to name my bird "Fireball", with some flames on the side etc. It doesn't have to look too fancy, just like a big messy flaming ball of wreckage; it's sure to blend in with the actual flaming ball of wreckage I will create shortly after grabbing the controls..

Bwahahaha, that's fantastic. Solid science there.

This is a movie of the P51

I learned some things tonight:

 

1) P51 wings are made of fire, with a thin sheet of metal-like material to keep the fire in. I was pretty sure of this already but this video proves it.

 

Quite a bit of it apparently, because it takes quite a while for all of the fire to escape. :D