P51 ride

painless · Post by **painless** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:44 am

I finally got around to compiling a video of a P51 ride I was fortunate to get at Oshkosh this past summer and thought I would share it. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD0wCp9QHSw

Yeahâ€¦.it was a totally awesome experience!

bruceh · Post by **bruceh** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:19 pm

I'm very jealous! Looks like an amazing flight. The P-51 has to be my favorite airplane.

stevewiz · Post by **stevewiz** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:47 pm

How exciting it must have been for you. Very nice

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:53 pm

Very nice Doc!

I finally got a chance to view it on the computer. For whatever reason, it wouldn't play on the gaypad...

Looks like a great ride!

I bet even a nosedragger guy like yourself found some nostalgia in the experience!

CJ

painless · Post by **painless** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:01 pm

captain_john wrote:
I bet even a nosedragger guy like yourself found some nostalgia in the experience!

CJ

I'm converted CJ. Doesn't my building a tail drag'n bipe count??

I don't understand why that video will not play on a mobile device. It says that I have not authorized it. Bogus! Any hints on how to change that??

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:17 pm

I got no ideas on how to change that...

Yah! Your bipe does count!

...only after I get my ride!

CJ

painless · Post by **painless** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:25 pm

captain_john wrote:
...only after I get my ride!

CJ

Ride nuth'n. I was going to make you my test monkeyâ€¦erâ€¦..pilot.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:26 pm

Hmmmmm... I would probably do that!!!

CJ

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:56 pm

nice one. Thanks

fastaviationdata · Post by **fastaviationdata** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:47 am

That was nice! Cheers for that!

BSwayze · Post by **BSwayze** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 7:39 pm

Beautiful video, nice job! I'll bet that's a ride you'll never forget.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:32 am

And a ride in the 'Doll' nonetheless!! SWEET!!!

1:1_Scale · Post by **1:1_Scale** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 1:53 pm

Congrats on the ride!

So how many Big Beautiful Doll's are there? I understand that the original is in a museum in the UK, and there was the one that crashed a couple years back after the mid-air...

Here's a couple of pics of my ride in one from '06:

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 1:51 pm

Is that Clay Lacy's Kelly?

1:1_Scale · Post by **1:1_Scale** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:23 pm

Hey Chad, no, it's the other purple Mustang at a time when it was between racing canopies

I did have an encounter with Clay's Mustang when I was about 13 though. My cousin and I had just walked across the runway where we lived (a little 2500' strip) and out of no where, we get a flyby from this purple P-51!

It was the first time I had seen a real one in my life. I guess Clay saw us because he gave us a second pass

It was so many years between that day and seeing a picture of Clay's Mustang that I was beginning to second guess what I saw. I mean really, who paints a P-51 MUSTANG PURPLE?

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:00 pm

At least a couple people do! Lol!

So this was a Voodoo ride! Sweet!!!