The P-51R is not a true variant or even an official designation, but if you were to ask a typical non-historian type motorhead in September, what the P-51 Mustang was designed for, he would straighten his cap, put down his beer, look at you sideways and say "air racin' of course."
Each September, racers of all types come to Reno for pylon air racing in the desert. The P-51 Mustangs have performed very well and hold the race speed record. Today, both stock P-51s and full race-cut custom P-51s enjoy this sport.
There have been, and still are, highly modified designs that try to better or radically improve the design of the P-51 Mustang. Several P-51 based highly modified racers have been built; the results are mixed. There are stockers, lightly modified planes, as well as radical designs that incorporate little P-51 parts.
Controls: well… throttle, roll, pitch, yaw, flaps (VTOL) and trim. Other than that, you might turn on the lights with AG1 -but who cares, right?
Specifications
Spotlights
- jamesPLANESii 4.6 years ago
- MAHADI 4.5 years ago
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 37.1ft (11.3m)
- Length 32.0ft (9.7m)
- Height 12.1ft (3.7m)
- Empty Weight 3,147lbs (1,427kg)
- Loaded Weight 6,793lbs (3,081kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.294
- Wing Loading 17.3lbs/ft2 (84.3kg/m2)
- Wing Area 393.2ft2 (36.5m2)
- Drag Points 1310
Parts
- Number of Parts 698
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 2,112
it's beautiful, although he lost a race against my "Galloping Ghost"
This thing is pretty nice
@JohnnyBoythePilot this video i made shows how my aurora is right now. keep in mind that i left sp for over a year so i didnt get to finish and polish my aurora or other builds. here, https://youtu.be/Um6kUAIB37A
@SimplyPlain
I've been planning on doing a virtual Reno Air Race in FSX for some time and while the default paint schemes for the P-51 are great, I'd like some additional textures. I already have my own texture I'll be making but "Hard Air" looks great and I knew I just had to add this to the list of textures to make for the P-51 in FSX, so there's more variety in air racers. Mine's is probably going to be something like "Blue Phantom".
@sebi032
Hey welcome back to SP, although I don't really recall you, and what is your "Aurora" again specifically? Are you talking about the SR-91 Aurora spyplane or something else named Aurora?
@JohnnyBoythePilot Johnny bro do u remember me? do u remember my Aurora? I've come back to Simple Planes and I hope to see you again! I have been inactive in Simple Planes for like 1.5 years but im back now.
@JohnnyBoythePilot Sure, go ahead. Let me know what it looks like once finished ;)
If you don't mind I might make this as a repaint for the default P-51D Mustang air racer in FSX. I really like this paint job/theme, and the nickname is pretty cool.
I am hoping that nobody would discover the red P-51 I will be making later
Well first off, nicely done. Great build. I personally don't like racing P-51s because they don't look like P-51s, but I like this post.
Yes!
Not nearly enough racing planes on here and this one looks awesome!
Love how clean the plane looks. Its very seamless and pretty. You did a great job with this Reno p51
so pretty
while I do agree that the Propeller could be bigger and the engine should have more power that is all easily modable. this is a splendid build.
This is amazing & beautyful plane
Everything is good except the prop, it's way too small.
I wish I could’ve seen these at Reno. Now it’s pretty much just dreadnought who is the winner.
Incredible! I love it when people make builds from Reno. I’ve watched the races online a few times and I hope to go see them soon
Cool
Very nice build!
SP has so many P-51 builds lol, glad this is different from the others
Performance is great though
Teeny weeny prop