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P&E

TECHNIQUE

L-39

ground clutter and upwards to
the horizon, all the while being
careful not to exceed 3 Gs.
Recoveries in larger aircraft
need to be a classy affair-more
like a smooth ballet, to avoid
stressing the airframe. That's
especially true with the recommended correction for an
extreme-high-nose attitude,
one you won't experience at the
local flight school.

FIRST COUPLE OF THE MUSTANG
Lee Lauderback, who flew for Arnold
Palmer, and Stallion 51 operations chief
Angela West, his fiancée, could be called
the "first couple" of the Mustang community. West organized two "Gathering
of Mustangs and Legends" that brought
together P-51s and the legends who flew
them. Lauderback and West are trained
falconers and keep two falcons at their
headquarters at Kissimmee Gateway
Airport, Florida.

Weight | 11,600 lbs

NOSE HIGH, STEEPLY BANKED

Speed en route to training area | 230 kts

Lauderback takes the controls and has me pull a white curtain forward from
the back of the canopy, attaching it with elastic loops to hooks at the front.
Then I unfurl a small panel and block my forward view directly above the
instrument panel. Nothing to watch anymore except that electronic flight
display. Eyes closed. Chin on the chest.
"Your aircraft," Lauderback says. The flight display is all blue, meaning
the airplane is aimed at the sky-no telling where the ground is. The wings
of the aircraft icon are tilted left at a steep angle. Power up!
I increase the bank to 90 degrees, neither pulling nor pushing on the control stick. If I were to push, the nose might not reach the horizon before the
jet slows to an aerodynamic stall. Even if it does, there are imaginary people
and plates of food in the back that don't need to float just now. That includes
the blue water in the imaginary lavatory.
Gravity does the job and the nose drops to the horizon. We're below stall
speed, but because we are also at less than one G, the airplane keeps flying. I
let the nose descend below the horizon to build speed and consider raising it
back to level flight. Just then I look at the angle of attack indicator above the
instrument panel. All the safe green chevrons, indicating the airplane wing
is safe from stalling, are gone. All but one of the cautionary yellow chevrons
are gone. Above them-only red chevrons remain, and if I pull nose up, the
jet will quickly stall. "I can't pull yet," I tell Lauderback.
Lauderback is pleased. "We should have put you under the hood to begin
with," he says. All the while he had watched me on a panel-mounted television screen, making sure I wasn't reaching for the blue airsickness bag to my
right. In the back of my imaginary business jet, the food stayed on the tables
because we still had a half G (an in-flight video indicated 0.4 G during a postflight debriefing), and the people stayed in their seats.
Next up-a flight in Crazy Horse2, a name meaning crazy Mustang, crazier to the second power than Lauderback's other Mustang, also named Crazy
Horse without the superscript "2."

Entry speed for most maneuvers | 230 kts for rolling
maneuvers, 280 kts for loops and half Cubans
Top speed reached during maneuvers | 300 kts
Top normal cruise speed | 300 kts true airspeed
Engine model | 3,792 lbs thrust Ivchenko AI-25-TL
turbofan
Speed used on short final | 120 kts
Types of maneuvers normally used for the Unusual
Attitude Training course | Stalls, both normal and
accelerated; wingovers; half Cuban 8s; aileron rolls

Mustang
Weight | 8,700 lbs
Speed used en route to training area | 210 kts
Entry speed for most maneuvers | 210 kts for rolling
maneuvers, 260 kts for loops and Cuban 8s
Top speed reached during maneuvers | 300 kts
Top normal cruise speed | 280 kts true airspeed

CRAZIEST HORSE OF ALL

Engine model | 1,700-horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin

The engine shakes itself awake followed by what sounds like a dozen Harleys
firing up as one. "Oh, yeah, there it is," Lauderback says. Earplugs are a nicety
in the pressurized, air-conditioned L-39 but a necessity in the growling P-51.
It's a flying tank made nimble by a 1,700-horsepower 12-cylinder Merlin
engine that weighs as much as a fully loaded Cessna 152. I am shoehorned
into the back cockpit where, before modification, a fuel tank used to be, but

V-1650
Speed used on short final | 110 kts
Types of maneuvers normally used for the Unusual
Attitude Training course | Wingover, half Cuban 8,
aileron roll

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