Flying in a P51 Mustang

[haukehaien]

I would love to go up in a Mustang!

About ten years ago one of my wife's colleagues at the local newspaper got me a ride in a B-17 that was making a publicity/fund-raising tour and that experience was AMAZING! Going for a spin in one of the "little friends" would be a real add-on to that experience.


B17038 by haukehaien, on Flickr

The bombardier's view from that flight. I had a Sony digital camera that recorded on floppy disk(!) so the detail's not so good. I wish I had scans of my 35mm slides from the flight - have to do that sometime.

[BoldHighlander]

Thanks gents, I'm glad you all enjoyed it!

I want a go! Sadly I doubt that I would ever fit in. We have a two seat-er Spitfire that does the air show circuit here, but I think that very few get to have a ride in it.

I had occasion to be at Inverness airport the other day and there right in front of the waiting room window(20 yards) was a single seat-er Spitfire with engine running waiting to take off, it was there for a couple of minutes and off it went .WOW! I just had to get that in! Anyway there is a connection------the Merlin engine.

I agree Jock, I love the sound of the Merlin Rolls Royce!

And I've always felt the lines of the Spitfire was one of the sexiest airplanes ever made!

B17038 by haukehaien, on Flickr

What a cool photo Haukehaien! I'm envious, that has always been one of my dreams (riding in the nose of a B17)!

Wow, fabulous video Terry, best on full screen on youtube.
Closest I've been to this is a half hour back seat flight in a Soviet Yak-52.
I wonder if the passenger in the Mustang had his camera strapped to his helmet. I wasn't allowed a camera on the Yak-52 due to safety issues where crashes had been caused by passengers dropping objects which fouled the control cables.
How easy would it be to get to the Heritage Flight Museum in Bellingham WA from Vancouver Island?

I thought of you as I posted this Alex

Not sure how they filmed this, but I'm sure your probably correct.

As for getting here from the Island...a ferry ride, a jaunt across the Peace Arch border crossing, then a 20 minute drive south to Bellingham (& a phone call to me...of course! ) and your there! Actually I don't live far from the airport, I see the P51 & some of their other aircraft fly low over my house frequently!