Video of the Week: P-51 Mustang Emergency Landing

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We watch a lot of flying videos in the course of a week, but left to our own devices, we would still miss some of the best. Thankfully, AVweb readers like Robert Reid are there to send us links when they find great videos around the web. Here’s one Robert recommended to us that shows a top-notch team handling a P-51 emergency landing. The Mustang’s landing gear won’t drop, and the ground team has scrambled to make sure everything goes off as safely as possible:


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