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Eric Stevens wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg Not for chepooos! ;-) -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography |
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"J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... In article , Eric Stevens wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg Not for chepooos! ;-) People say that the "good old days" existed only in our imaginations, but the fact is that there was a time when a middle-class wage earner could afford to own, maintain, and fly one of those. One of my professors had one that he had bought after WWII--he sold it in the '70s when he could no longer afford gas for it. True. Kind of sad. But you can't blame people for having an interest in getting paid properly for a commodity (crude) so limited in quantity. Me thinks... -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography |
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On 2014-08-29 08:03:56 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg Nice P-51! -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2014-08-29 09:32:32 +0000, "J. Clarke" said:
In article , says... In article , Eric Stevens wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg Not for chepooos! ;-) People say that the "good old days" existed only in our imaginations, but the fact is that there was a time when a middle-class wage earner could afford to own, maintain, and fly one of those. One of my professors had one that he had bought after WWII--he sold it in the '70s when he could no longer afford gas for it. When my father got back after the war in 1945 they were given the opportunity to buy P-38's & P-51's for the cost of the fuel to fly them away, about $1,200 1945 dollars. That included several crates of maintenance parts. He stayed in the the service until 1947 and still regrets not making that buy. Instead he bought a Nash. Then in 1947 he and another AAF buddy (a 9 kill ace & my godfather) bought a surplus C-47 to fly air freight which they did until 1950 when they sold the C-47. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:35:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2014-08-29 08:03:56 +0000, Eric Stevens said: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg Nice P-51! I'm surprised: you of all people! That's not a P51 Mustang. That's a 3/4 scale Thunder Mustang! Note the engine, it's not a RR Merlin, it's a Falconer V12 racing engine, the design of which is based on the small-block Chevrolet V8. See http://www.thundermustang.com/ http://www.thundermustang.com/gallery-two/ for photographs (not the plane in my shot) and http://www.bluethunderairracing.com/...pecifications/ for comparisons with the real thing. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 2014-08-29 21:07:58 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:35:15 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2014-08-29 08:03:56 +0000, Eric Stevens said: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg Nice P-51! I'm surprised: you of all people! That's not a P51 Mustang. That's a 3/4 scale Thunder Mustang! Note the engine, it's not a RR Merlin, it's a Falconer V12 racing engine, the design of which is based on the small-block Chevrolet V8. See http://www.thundermustang.com/ http://www.thundermustang.com/gallery-two/ for photographs (not the plane in my shot) and http://www.bluethunderairracing.com/...pecifications/ for comparisons with the real thing. So? I was 3/4 right, and it is a 3/4 nice P-51. ;-) Scale is tough to judge when unassembled and without a good old average size human in the shot. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:20:15 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2014-08-29 21:07:58 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:35:15 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2014-08-29 08:03:56 +0000, Eric Stevens said: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7150_DxO.jpg Nice P-51! I'm surprised: you of all people! That's not a P51 Mustang. That's a 3/4 scale Thunder Mustang! Note the engine, it's not a RR Merlin, it's a Falconer V12 racing engine, the design of which is based on the small-block Chevrolet V8. See http://www.thundermustang.com/ http://www.thundermustang.com/gallery-two/ for photographs (not the plane in my shot) and http://www.bluethunderairracing.com/...pecifications/ for comparisons with the real thing. So? I was 3/4 right, and it is a 3/4 nice P-51. ;-) Scale is tough to judge when unassembled and without a good old average size human in the shot. I have one of those but I don't know that you will find it very helpful https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SC7153_DxO.jpg The workshop is dreadfully cluttered. When you look around you can see that it is filled with bits and pieces waiting restoration and fitting to the Mosquito wing and fuselage presently sitting in the next hangar. That will be Mosquito #2. They want to get #2 out of the next hangar so that they can start work on #3! From the casual conversation, #2 has to be out of this hangar in about two years. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Savageduck wrote:
When my father got back after the war in 1945 they were given the opportunity to buy P-38's & P-51's for the cost of the fuel to fly them away, about $1,200 1945 dollars. That included several crates of maintenance parts. He stayed in the the service until 1947 and still regrets not making that buy. Instead he bought a Nash. Then in 1947 he and another AAF buddy (a 9 kill ace & my godfather) bought a surplus C-47 to fly air freight which they did until 1950 when they sold the C-47. When the war ended in the Pacific in 1945, one of my colleagues was in the Navy serving on an aircraft carrier. He told me that orders came through to dump many of the airplanes into the ocean, to avoid the expense of bringing them back to the USA. Mort Linder |
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