New museum in Mesa,Az

[Pat Carry]

Another aviation museum is forthcoming. Its the Wings of Flight Foundation in Mesa,Az www.wingsofflight.org

[mike furline]

Look at the performance stats on thier P-51, top speed 505mph.

Mike

[retroaviation]

They must be using air racing specs.

[John Beyl]

Is,'tthat the correctly stated top dive speed of the aircraft?

John

[51fixer]

Look at the performance stats on thier P-51, top speed 505mph.

Mike

Red line for P-51 is 505 MPH. Statement is true.
Rich

[mike furline]

Look at the performance stats on thier P-51, top speed 505mph.

Mike

Red line for P-51 is 505 MPH. Statement is true.
Rich

Never said "it wasn't" true, but a little misleading perhaps??
Cessna 150 - top speed 162mph.

Mike

[Ryan Keough]

Paging Chris Clark... paging Chris Clark... you have some 'splaining to do on Su Su!!

Seriously, the museum is a collection of personal planes displayed under the header of the Wings of Flight masthead. For those of you who came out to the Wings Over Anzio event at FFZ in the Spring, a good number of the planes were those from Wings of Flight. Those planes that are based at FFZ now (the P-51 is at Stellar in Chandler) are usually found at the Air West hangar on the far East side of the airport (really just accessible from inside the airport in all reality). There were plans underway to build a consolidated hangar, but I am not sure where those are now.

Ryan

[A2C]

Never said "it wasn't" true, but a little misleading perhaps??
Cessna 150 - top speed 162mph.

Only misleading to those who aren't knowledgeable enough. red-line speed is covered in private pilot license training, and is maximum speed.

[mike furline]

Never said "it wasn't" true, but a little misleading perhaps??
Cessna 150 - top speed 162mph.

Only misleading to those who aren't knowledgeable enough. red-line speed is covered in private pilot license training, and is maximum speed.

Top speed, Maximun speed, VNE.....

I think 438mph @ 25,000ft, sounds more accurate.

I guess it's a numbers game, all planes speeds look more impressive when going down hill.

Last edited by mike furline on Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:32 pm, edited 2 times in total.

[Chris]

Someone has some 'splainin to do to me too. I had no idea that Nazy's planes were part of the equation. I may have some questions regarding working on planes that are being flown for donations for someone elses organization. Can you say L I A B I L I T Y?