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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ryan on June 16, 2007 5:27 am

Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: Ryan on June 16, 2007 5:27 am: Here are some pictures of a P-51 that the place I work for built the wings on. It won Grand Champion at Oshkosh in I believe 1998.
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: Ryan on June 16, 2007 5:35 am: More pictures. It should be flying in the show this weekend.
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: Eyeball on June 16, 2007 5:40 am: Cool shit. You are lucky to be involved with a company like that.
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: 31Rodder on June 16, 2007 9:32 am: yeah those are some good pics
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: Serious on June 18, 2007 12:18 am: Hot Damn, thats friggin awesome.
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: Lord_of_the_Dance on June 18, 2007 7:28 pm: Boy that Bob Odegaard does tremendous work! Way to go getting in with that company!
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: racerjohnson on July 30, 2007 2:13 am: where does one go to school to learn all that airframe fabbing stuff?

Bummer about Gerry Beck this weekend, for those of you who knew who he was. Flipped his reno racer P-51 after a collision while landing in formation with Casey Odegaard at oshkosh. Casey is all right, but Gerry didn't make it. He was good friends with my employer and apparently "master craftsman" doesn't begin to describe him.
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: hell_bent on July 30, 2007 12:53 pm: you have an awesome job getting to work on something like that
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: Wowcars on July 30, 2007 2:00 pm: Quote from: "racerjohnson"
where does one go to school to learn all that airframe fabbing stuff?

Bummer about Gerry Beck this weekend, for those of you who knew who he was. Flipped his reno racer P-51 after a collision while landing in formation with Casey Odegaard at oshkosh. Casey is all right, but Gerry didn't make it. He was good friends with my employer and apparently "master craftsman" doesn't begin to describe him.

OMG. Thats horrible. Isn't that two crashes with vintage planes in the last month that have claimed the lives of the pilots?
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: racerjohnson on July 30, 2007 2:40 pm: thats what i hear

I learned that they were landing in formation and the front plane (casey) landed first (the rear plane is supposed to land first while in formation), Gerrys plane got too close and by the time he realized it (apparently you can't see over the nose of a mustang while landing) and started to power up and pull up, the prop was chewing up the tail of caseys. I'm guessing the torque from powering back up to take off again is what flipped it. Instantly burst into flames in front of 25,000 people.

I've read about many, many pilots in training back in WWWII who flipped their mustangs by goosing the throttle on that big V-12 on landing or takeoff.
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: Eyeball on July 30, 2007 3:18 pm: news vid

http://www.nbc26.com/news/local/8772112.html?video=YHI&t=a&randpre=7168721
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: Eyeball on July 30, 2007 3:33 pm: Great pics here.

http://flickr.com/photos/lscan/sets/72157601065523576/show/
Title: Not your average Mustang
Post by: pinstriper40 on July 30, 2007 7:12 pm: I had been to Gerry's shop in wahpeton a couple of times and it was quite something to see what he could do with a flat sheet fo aluminum. Amazing planes, and an amazing person. He will be missed greatly.