P-51 Autonomy of a bad landing

[tkrahlin]

She doesn't like to fly slow!

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[WJCJR1]

Any damage or just some scrubbed tips? If you would not have ulled up as hard you would've been cool.

Is the plane stable in the air, looks like it from this short video? If it is stable you could try moving the COG back.

Move it back a 1/4" and see what happens. This should allow you a slower approach, reason being if you are nose heavy you are needing airspeed for lift to keep the nose up thus making your stall low flight speed higher than desirable.

I understand the character of the plane being a bit faster on landing but worth a shot. Be careful though too tail heavy and she'll snap right around on the first bank you roll in to do.

Wayne

[ATIS]

no damage..tough little bugger isnt she!!

Its not the slow flying that got you, its the rapid hard manuevers that killed you because it created a stall. You should have throttled hard and gone around for anther try.

Just remember on a "go around" its THROTTLE TO WOT, then pull up easy.

Careful on moving the CG back...tail heavy planes only fly once and they are very touchy to elevator and will pitch thier nose high in turns.

[tkrahlin]

no damage..tough little bugger isnt she!!

Just some scuffed paint on the very edge of the wingtip.

There's a rumor going round that the Army is contracting with Horizon next year to build Z-Foam Hummers.
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[WJCJR1]

If you find the sweet spot though boy they can fly like a dream, snappy yet under control response.

Small steps, ATIS is correct a tail HEAVY HEAVY plane or even a NOSE HEAVY HEAVY plane spells disaster. Takes more nose weight then tail weight though to bring a plane down though so you can screw up on the nose heavy side much further before you down a plane.

I once carrying my full size GPS on my Apprentice set it up so NOSE heavy by accident it took full throttle just to hold the nose in the air and a 2/3rds throttle input to land without wrecking. Plane was barely moving too GPS recorded top speed of 17m.p.h. as I was wasting all my energy to keep the nose out of the deck.

Wayne