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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:11 pm 
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I came across this story about 3D printing used to create new exhaust stacks to keep the P-51 flying.

Metal Additive Manufacturing Keeps Legend Flying
https://www.engineering.com/AdvancedMan ... lying.aspx


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Great find! Excellent article. :)

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Not sure if they're still available, but there was a company in Eastern Europe making new ones.. Romania maybe?

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