Video of the Week: P-51 Mustang Emergency Landing

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  • The article highlights a reader-recommended video featuring a P-51 Mustang performing an emergency landing.
  • The video showcases a ground team's coordinated efforts in handling a situation where the aircraft's landing gear failed to deploy.
  • It emphasizes the importance of AVweb readers contributing by sending links to impressive aviation videos.
  • AVweb offers an official baseball cap as a thank you for any recommended videos that are featured on their site.
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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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