Has anyone ever built a Navy Mustang had they been approved for carrier use?
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| Author: | Django [ Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | What If: Navy P-51 |
Has anyone ever built a Navy Mustang had they been approved for carrier use?
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| Author: | Steve Nelson [ Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:39 pm ] |
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After a few beers, a freind of mine once started hacking up the wings of an A-36. His plan was to graft them onto the fuselage of a P-51B and make a folding-wing carrier-based Mustang dive bomber (I think we were gonna call it the SBJ-1). Unfortunately, he lost interest in the project once he sobered up. 
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| Author: | Django [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:45 am ] |
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I've got an extra SpeCast P-51 (Yeager) lying around.... 
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| Author: | spookythecat [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:18 pm ] |
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Django wrote: I've got an extra SpeCast P-51 (Yeager) lying around....
DO IT!!! |
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| Author: | Jesse C. [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:46 am ] |
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Now that is a cool idea! This should drive the IPMS guys nuts!!! 
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| Author: | Steve Nelson [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:14 pm ] |
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Actually, my buddy was screwing around with the kit in the hotel room at the 2002 IPMS Nationals...
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| Author: | JetStarMech [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Cool Idea, but it's just wrong... |
I don't think the Navy guys' would know how to deal with a liquid cooled engine... Just think of it, 1500 plus guys on a carrier in the Pacific, they want a brew or a shot, there would be little "stills/breweries" all over the ship. When it came time to fill the glycol tanks on the Navy version of the P-51 the crew drank most of it.... Seriously the complex engines that the Army Air Corps used did not or would not work well on a Carrier, the Navy opted to use the very rugged radial engines. But that is a cool idea for a model, especially if the war in the Pacific had lasted longer and the Navy needed a great aircraft like the Mustang... Out Here, Tom |
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| Author: | Django [ Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:38 pm ] |
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Similarly... 
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| Author: | Django [ Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:44 pm ] |
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Ooo, just found this! http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php ... ,p-51.html 1: 
and 2: 
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| Author: | mazdaP5 [ Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:22 pm ] |
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That Sea Fury is quite cool! |
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