Local news had a small story about a vintage plane crash, dont remember where but it looked like a mustang from the pictures fo the wreck, I could identify the nose and tail as a mustang. It had a black and yellow checker pattern on the nose from what I could see. Any ideas?
I haven’t heard anything about that. Keep us posted please.
It was a scale P-51 replica…
Pilot Survives Crash in Oxnard
Juan Carlo photo - Ventura County Star
The aircraft involved:
Smith Owen I Stewart S51D - N51VS
Here’s hoping for a full and speedy recovery by the pilot…
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Thanks for the update, Steve! That was some replica, I am truly impressed! As a layman, I would bbe hard pressed to tell it from the real thing unless they were side by side…I am very pleased to hear that the pilot will survive.
Brian [C):-)]
Glad for two things, one that the pilot survived, and two, it wasnt a REAL mustang.
Actually, the replica mustangs are 1:6 scale or some thing like that, they are noticably smaller and have more of a P-51H look to them, The H model couldnt be confused for anything other than a mustang but didnt look as sharp and clean as a D model, at least in my opinion.
The Stewart S-51 is about 70% the size of the real deal.
Titan Aircraft makes a good looking P-51 replica aircraft too.
http://www.pilotmix.com/index.php?pgid=11&lang=en&maxInfo=212
That would only be about a 6 ft wingspan at 1/6 scale. 100% = approx 37 ft
Sorry to see such a beautiful aircraft destroyed, but glad to hear the pilot survived.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
Is it just me, or are scaled down flying replicas a weak-knee’d rendition that makes you go, “why?”
If you’re going to go thru the trouble of engineering and manufacturing an airplane make it full size for gawds sake.
In Chino California they make P-51s brand new and full size.
(scaled down)To me they’re sissy-Mary airplanes! What does the owners of these contraptions say to folks? “I’ve got a Mustang fighter plane, but it’s not a real fighter. It’s smaller than the original, but it looks like a Mustang.”
Woo-woo-woo.
They’re the aviation equivalent to Ronco’s “Wheel Squeel” audio system that makes your jalopy-car sound like a hot-rod. In a word, “Dorky”.
It’s just you… [;)]
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Tell me, you do own Ronco’s “Wheel Squeel” huh? [:D]
Moreover, if some hip and trendy model company markets a 1:6 scaled down fighter I guarantee I won’t buy one. You can have my share. HA!
I agree, just make it full size, why so small, makes no sense at all.
Since P-51’s are going for $2 million, the idea is a ‘cheap’ alternative. The smallest replicas are 50% scale. Thedo look a bit like toys. There are no 1/6 scale replicas flying with pilots that I am aware of, they would be too small. The best replicas are 75% for WW II and 75-100% for WWI aircraft.