HERE I AM!!!
ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRIC...*BASHHHH*

My Dad was there. He has gone every year since 1964, and I've gone almost every year of my life. I had to work yesterday, or else I would have been there. I spent a good hour panicked, trying to get a hold of him after the crash. I haven't talked to him about it other than make sure he was okay.

Jimmy was a hell of a pilot, and the Galloping Ghost was a fucking amazing airplane. It wasn't really a P-51, let's be frank. It was as much a P-51 as a NASCAR is your common road car. Please don't go "WHY WAS AN 80 YEAR OLD RACING A 60 YEAR OLD PLANE!?!?!?!". Jimmy was 74 and in great shape, and he had those old man marble hands, the kind that made mine feel like deflated balloons, and gave me the impression that he could kick my ass without breaking a sweat. I feel awful for those hurt and the loved ones of those killed.

Right now, it's starting to look like a mechanical failure. The same failure that almost took out Tsunami back in the day.

the unforgettable audio for me is that little 'zzzzzziiippppppPOW' sound it made a second before impact.

never heard that one before. hopefully I'll never hear it again.

I wondered why people didn't get out of the way, but after watching this, it's obvious. Goddamn.

5 stars for the guy in orange, who was blown head-over-teakettle and immediately jumped up and ran back into the crowd to help.

The P-51 was notorious for doing... That.

Something about the design where if it goes into too deep a dive it becomes a giant lawn dart. Several animated training films in WWII warned would be Mustang pilots of that aspect.

What surprised me is that physics should have pulled it straight to the ground without the pilot having any say. Yet the pilot WAS able to nudge it away somewhat from the crowd. That should not have been possible. One Hell of a pilot there.