Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin

1) That plane is not a standard P-51, it's been a show plane since the 1940s, and has been kept up, accordingly. Shitty hack-rag writers are shitty hack-rag writers.

2) That pilot did all he could with the downforce he'd have to even get the elevator up is in the hundreds of pounds, sustained. He did what he could. Age has nothing to do with it.