Another P-82 restoration
Tue May 20, 2008 3:21 pm
Forgive me if this has already been mentioned but in the current issue of Air Classics (I know boo,hiss) there is an article about the acquistion of a P-82 by Tom Reilly. The Twin Mustang (44-83887) comes from Walter Soplata and although it is missing one of the fuselages Tom Reilly intends to restore the plane to fly! It will be one heck of a restoration considering the missing fuselage will have to be replicated.
Re: Another P-82 restoration
Tue May 20, 2008 3:41 pm
Pat Carry wrote:Forgive me if this has already been mentioned but in the current issue of Air Classics (I know boo,hiss) there is an article about the acquistion of a P-82 by Tom Reilly. The Twin Mustang (44-83887) comes from Walter Soplata and although it is missing one of the fuselages Tom Reilly intends to restore the plane to fly! It will be one heck of a restoration considering the missing fuselage will have to be replicated.
Forgiven.
Tue May 20, 2008 4:02 pm
Why did the p-82 have allisons and not merlins?
Tue May 20, 2008 4:14 pm
Just a quick question, since I don't have the article, but I thought that Tom Reilly was retiring after restoring the Labrador B-17 down in Georgia? Does this mean that the P-82 will now be his last restoration, or is he back for good?
Tue May 20, 2008 4:39 pm
gsheff wrote:Why did the p-82 have allisons and not merlins?
Because after the war, the air force did not want to have to pay royalties to Rolls Royce to use the Merlin. The Allison was a American made engine.
Tue May 20, 2008 5:36 pm
Ours has Merlins.
Gary
Gary
P82
Tue May 20, 2008 9:25 pm
"Ours"???
Is there an update at hand? j/k I hope this becomes the case!
Tommy
Is there an update at hand? j/k I hope this becomes the case!
Tommy
Wed May 21, 2008 4:16 am
I mean the one that we have in our hangar that we feed and water and take outside to poop and pee every so often. 
No, no updates yet. But stay tuned..........
Gary
No, no updates yet. But stay tuned..........
Gary
P-82
Wed May 21, 2008 10:29 pm
No building that one into space.It will require fixtures and more than a few of them.I looked at the engine mount from the bird and man is it involved.You will need one hell of a fixture just for the mount.Anyone know if the are same left and right?
Thu May 22, 2008 9:02 am
retroaviation wrote:I mean the one that we have in our hangar that we feed and water and take outside to poop and pee every so often.
No, no updates yet. But stay tuned..........
Gary
If you had to have one to just take care of, well, that's a pretty darn good one! Changing the litter box, newspaper, giving it a wash, etc just to look at it everyday doesn't sound so bad. Then again, I'm not doing those chores.
Hope to hear some good news soon. Ears are tuned.
(see the ears)
Tommy