Ever wonder what it would be like ....

[Mark Allen M]

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[k5083]

Today that's Chuck Greenhill's "Geraldine".

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p51regis ... 74543.html
http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/?s ... l/44-74543

In RCAF schemes of that era those three big digits on the fuselage are the last-3 of the serial and with Mustangs you just drop a 9 in front. Thus RCAF 9252.

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[Mark Allen M]

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[Mark Allen M]

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[tom roberts]

Photos look like Brewerton NY. Sat in the yard for quite a while

[L. Thompson]

One would think many fighters during ferry flights to the scrapyards in 1946 had force landings due to mechanical issues. I wonder what the protocol was for repairs to complete the flights, or when to abandon and go get another one were? A friend in the Air Force in 1977-78 told me often about such a case with a P-38 enroute to a major scrapyard that let down on a Texas ranch and was left there. He always said his dad could take us right to the location...

[John Dupre]

I remember hearing a story of a Mustang that force landed in a field in Rhode Island. This particular field had often been used for forced landing practice with the aircraft usually flying away. The Mustang was damaged and the farmer was told that they would be back for it. Then the war ended and no one ever came back. The farmer stored the aircraft in his barn for the next 50 years until it was finally "discovered" and taken away. I wish that one was true.

Didn't the CAF P-39 or P-63 actually suffer that fate? Forced landed late in the war in AZ or NM and was just abandoned for years till someone showed an interest?

One would think many fighters during ferry flights to the scrapyards in 1946 had force landings due to mechanical issues. I wonder what the protocol was for repairs to complete the flights, or when to abandon and go get another one were? A friend in the Air Force in 1977-78 told me often about such a case with a P-38 enroute to a major scrapyard that let down on a Texas ranch and was left there. He always said his dad could take us right to the location...

[Mark Allen M]

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[Robbie Stuart]

The F4U-4 with "5" on the cowling is most likely Blythe, CA. That is the aircraft I used to Crew Chief "Angel Of Okinawa", while owned by the late Merle Gustafson, now owned by Kermit weeks.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 97286.html

[dusttinbound]

The F4U-4 with "5" on the cowling is most likely Blythe, CA. That is the aircraft I used to Crew Chief "Angel Of Okinawa", while owned by the late Merle Gustafson, now owned by Kermit weeks.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 97286.html

That is also an ex-NAS Olathe Corsair. I have heard rumors of a Corsair in a barn somewhere around the former NAS Olathe. I have flown over the entire area and never really seen anything that would make me believe this. My guess just another fantasy that there is a secret airbase where hundreds of warbirds are just laying around waiting to be discovered.

[51fixer]

The F4U-4 with "5" on the cowling is most likely Blythe, CA. That is the aircraft I used to Crew Chief "Angel Of Okinawa", while owned by the late Merle Gustafson, now owned by Kermit weeks.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 97286.html

That is also an ex-NAS Olathe Corsair. I have heard rumors of a Corsair in a barn somewhere around the former NAS Olathe. I have flown over the entire area and never really seen anything that would make me believe this. My guess just another fantasy that there is a secret airbase where hundreds of warbirds are just laying around waiting to be discovered.

SSSHHH!!!
SOMEONE MIGHT BE READING THIS AND THEY'LL KNOW OUR SECRET

[Warbirdnerd]

This well travelled Seafire is still around too...
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitregi ... vp441.html

[Obergrafeter]

Well at least I had my hands on the Seafire project when it was dismantled in New Braunfels Texas, should have offered to buy it. I had money back then........that was before I started screwing with warbirds!

[P51Mstg]

Geraldine was taken where it was first parked. Before it was moved across the road to it's "final" resting place at the car dealer's...... Photo was probably from around 1970 or so. The good old days.

Mark H