P-51 Overlay with long body please

[Seth]

Here is the P-51 and M20 C/D/E overlay picture.

Can someone do the same with a M20M/R or M20U/V?

That way the snout and tail will be in better proportion. The factory should have run this as an add years ago.

Once don’t I’d love the file so I can print a high quality image of it for display somewhere.

-Seth

[aviatoreb]

It would make a Nice shirt.

[aviatoreb]

Actually the skeleton outline of just the M20 with the P51 not there, would make a great breast stitch emblem for a polo short.

[Schllc]

Amazing, 15% difference in size but four times gross weight. And 5x hp
I flew one of these and without weapons armor and drop tanks the climb rate is 7k minute!!

To heck with a turbine put a RR on a Mooney!!!

 

[carusoam]

1 hour ago, Schllc said:

Amazing, 15% difference in size but four times gross weight. And 5x hp
I flew one of these and without weapons armor and drop tanks the climb rate is 7k minute!!

To heck with a turbine put a RR on a Mooney!!!

 

there was nearly an RR option for the Mooney....  it was in development around 2007.

It looked really good for about a year.... just out of phase with the economy at the time...

That was an RR turbine...  

Best regards,

-a-

[aviatoreb]

1 minute ago, carusoam said:

there was nearly an RR option for the Mooney....  it was in development around 2007.

It looked really good for about a year.... just out of phase with the economy at the time...

That was an RR turbine...  

Best regards,

-a-

Right - I remember that. It was a special slightly smaller RR turbine engine that I don't think it ended up completing toward certification either since there were no airframes promising to use it in the end.

[carusoam]

I’m not sure if RR finished the development to put that engine into a fixed wing configuration...
 

So many options are on the table again... 

Best regards,

-a-

[JT]

Sorry to hijack- had to share this Mustang & friends...

[carusoam]

Nice video JT...

I have No idea how to re-orient that one...  

The quiet roar of a few thousand HP in unison... loping around.

Best regards,

-a-

[JT]

Yeah- sorry, doesn't seem to want to respond to the normal rotation commands.

 

One of those birds is about as rare as they come, maybe not quite as rare as the twin Mustang...

[kmyfm20s]

We saw this one on a leg stretch stop in Ukiah a couple weeks ago. Looks like it had a fun and interesting history. Hit 430+ mph! 
 

https://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/survivors/serial/44-73129

[Missile=Awesome]

17 minutes ago, JT said:

Yeah- sorry, doesn't seem to want to respond to the normal rotation commands.

 

One of those birds is about as rare as they come, maybe not quite as rare as the twin Mustang...

There are “good” and “bad” hijacks...That was a good one.

[bfreelove]

[carusoam]

Way to go bfree!
 

See if @Seth is around this morning...

Best regards,

-a-

[Seth]

5 hours ago, bfreelove said:

That looks amazing. The Mooney wing is 36 feet 6 inches and the P-51 37 feet. Tbe P-51 is longer by a few feet and the long body just overlays in the pic a bit better.

Thank you!

Question, this looks like P-51H wing and not a P-51D wing, can you overlay on a P-51D?

 

Thanks!

-Seth 

[Guest]

I’m sure that the only connection between a Mooney and a Mustang is the aluminum.  A Navion has a stronger connection.

Clarence

[bfreelove]

7 hours ago, Seth said:

Question, this looks like P-51H wing and not a P-51D wing, can you overlay on a P-51D?

Here's it vs. the D model

-Ben

[Seth]

16 hours ago, M20Doc said:

I’m sure that the only connection between a Mooney and a Mustang is the aluminum.  A Navion has a stronger connection.

Clarence

Clarence-

actually the leading edge was made by the press purchased from North American. The P-51B/Press for the leading edge was in the factory back in the 1980’s as per Bob Kromer. The wing if you look is a slightly scaled down P-51 shape and the leading edge was the P-51 leading edge. 
 

We learned about this during a Mooney Summit session 4-5 years ago.

This is why for years I felt Mooney could have somehow capitalized on that.

-Seth
 

 

[Seth]

10 hours ago, bfreelove said:

Thank you!!

[Guest]

An interesting bit of history for sure.  I’ll share mine.  I bought a rivet squeezer when building my RV4, alleged to have been used by Goodyear during WW2.  So my RV4 is really a Corsair!

Clarence

[carusoam]

https://mapsairmuseum.org/goodyear-fg-1d-corsair/
 

To get the wing Drawing overlays of both the Cosair and the RV-4 is more of a 3D effort....   

-a-