Warbird Information Exchange

Well I'm not a pilot, but if I could have a P-51 parked in my yard, it would have to be the Red Baron RB-51, in all it's Michelob glory.

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"I love the smell of racing gas in the morning"
www.timadamsphotography.com

Vlado, great job this weekend in Peoria, too bad the weather was so bad.

By the way, where's Moonbeam?

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"I love the smell of racing gas in the morning"
www.timadamsphotography.com

Tim:
Moonbeam is in rebuild. Should be done in June.
Yes, Peoria was a 'challenge'!
Thx,
VL

Since dreaming is free . . . I wish I could own one, and it would be painted like one of these:





Credit for the photos:

Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca - Tulio's collection.

Saludos,


Tulio

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Why take the best part of life out of your life, when you can have life with the best part of your life in your life?

I am one of them 'futbol' people.

Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English.

Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????

If I could own a P-51, I'd trade it for a Spitfire. I think I'd be less likely to kill myself in it, and I wouldn't have to polish all that aluminum.

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What is red, furry and on your six?

Fritz, that is a good answer, one I thought of, but here's a better one. Keep the Mustang, move with it to Aspen, and we'll trade flights, so we can enjoy the best of both worlds. And those guys in Crazy Horse can teach you how to fly the 51 with safety, at least for a warbird. In my opinion, it is about 40% skill and 60% smarts.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

Or ten percent skill and two hundred and fifty percent of my income

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What is red, furry and on your six?

Yeah! And notice their TWs are down! (The other thread.)

This one is favorite..http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/survivors/pages/picpages/44-72902/44-72902-p11.html

I always thought it would be extremely cool to have a brand new B model built up as "Beguine" and then a modern racing incarnation of her.

If we're talking stock...then for B Gentile or Hofer, and for D an Iwo based example named "My Girl".

Id get a B made and do it like Don Gentile's P-51B Shangri La, just like Pete Regina did it. What a disgusting act the owner after that did to paint it red. Yes his money, his airplane, but disgusting nonetheless.

As we were flying down from Colorado, Ed and I had time to talk about P-51s, and how we were sort of an escort mode, just flying straight and level, low economy cruise power. I said what it would be like to be crossing into Germany, eyes peeled for 109's coming down. I said don't know how they could sit there for 6 hours or more on Pacific escort. Ed told of a vet telling how they pulled the prop rpm back until the gen just barely came on line. He mentioned how there weren't enough Mustangs painted in Pacific schemes.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

I know it's wrong but I love the blue. I doubt I could actually bring myself to paint my own that way knowing it's wrong, but I love it just the same.



Does anyone know if Man O War was the only 4th FG bird to wear this camo pattern? Does anyone know the story on this camo pattern?



Most likey it would be some Checkertail Clan scheme...



Or one from the 23rd FG...



Someone mentioned factory fresh?



thanks to vg-photo.com for the fantastic images!

I can't pick just one so here are 5 i no particular order

The Original Precious Metal
Red Baron as it appeared at Reno in 1979
Strega in the current paint
Miss Ashly II (still a mustang even though it was built from scratch)
Georgia Mae

Jarrod