Tags for this video have been changed from 'P51, Fagen Fighters, Restoration' to 'P51 Mustang, Fagen Fighters, Restoration' - edited by xxovercastxx

It's only the prototype, they're looking to make the next version lighter, higher revving, more powerful.

The spitfire used a 2 speed blower that the pilot switched in flight, but the equivalent Messerschmitt had a more sophisticated variable one (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler-Benz_DB_605 for details).

I don't know what the Mustang had, but I'd assume they've copied it here.
>> ^TheFreak:

>> ^oritteropo:
It's already supercharged according to the english version of the page.>> ^TheFreak:
Needs a turbo.


Um...needs a two stage supercharger then.
From the bore and stroke I'm not sure how they get away with calling this 1/3 scale. More like 1/5. Even then, the displacement is a fraction of the type of 12 cylinder engine they're replicating because of that whole πr^2 thing.
Nitpicking. I suppose the point is that it's cool.
Still not 1/3 scale.

>> ^oritteropo:

It's already supercharged according to the english version of the page.>> ^TheFreak:
Needs a turbo.



Um...needs a two stage supercharger then.

From the bore and stroke I'm not sure how they get away with calling this 1/3 scale. More like 1/5. Even then, the displacement is a fraction of the type of 12 cylinder engine they're replicating because of that whole πr^2 thing.

Nitpicking. I suppose the point is that it's cool.
Still not 1/3 scale.

It's already supercharged according to the english version of the page.>> ^TheFreak:

Needs a turbo.

I think something becomes snuff when you see the people and then they are dead. Knowing an event produced death (the stage collapse etc) isn't enough to disqualify imho.

They are still trying to figure out what happened in this case. Photos show a trim tab falling off the plane moments earlier, while still in the air. The plane was heavily, heavily modified from a stock P51 mustang. The wings were dramatically shortened.