Reno Airshow Crash -- Result of modified tail wings.

infiniti · Sep 19, 2011

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Over the Weekend a deadly air show accident occurred with a remodeled, and highly modified p51 mustang airplane.

story goes as follows:

RENO, Nev. — The death toll rose to nine Saturday in an air race crash in Reno as investigators determined that several spectators were killed on impact as the 1940s-model plane appeared to lose a piece of its tail before slamming like a missile into a crowded tarmac.
The deaths include seven who were killed on the tarmac, including the 74-year-old pilot, and two others who died at hospitals, Reno Deputy Police Chief Dave Evans said.
Photographs showed a piece of the tail missing before the crash.
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The Reno pilot, Jimmy Leeward, of Ocala, Fla., was a veteran airman and movie stunt pilot who named his P-51 Mustang fighter plane "The Galloping Ghost."
The plane had a minor crash almost exactly 40 years ago in Reno after its engine failed. According to two websites that track P-51s that are still flying, it made a belly landing away from the airport. The NTSB report on the Sept. 18, 1970, incident says the engine failed during an air race and it crash-landed short of the runway.
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P-51 historian Dick Phillips of Burnsville, Minn., said on Saturday that the plane had had several new engines since then as well as a new canopy and other modifications.
In a podcast uploaded to YouTube in June, Leeward said major changes were made to the plane before this year's race. He said his crew cut five feet off each wing and shortened the ailerons — the back edge of the main wings used to control balance — to 32 inches, down from about 60 inches.The goal was to make the plane more aerodynamic so it would go faster without a bigger engine.

"I know the speed. I know it'll do the speed. The systems aren't proven yet. We think they're going to be OK," he said.
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Who should be responsible for this terrible accident and what changes should come of it?

pausedtoker · Sep 20, 2011

My god..........while i was hiking in the woods earlier today i swear i saw like 5 of those same looking planes fly overhead.....WHAT COULD THIS MEAN!!!?

TheRedPill · Sep 20, 2011

pausedtoker said:

My god..........while i was hiking in the woods earlier today i swear i saw like 5 of those same looking planes fly overhead.....WHAT COULD THIS MEAN!!!?
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