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Hi everyone,

I'm completely elated tonight. I got to sit in my very first P-51 about two hours ago. I started volunteering at EAA, and got to sit in Paul I, as well as got to help make some tailwheel steering cables for it.

I know it isn't much, but it's a start...

I'll see if I can get permission to post some photos of Aluminum Overcast when she's back for her next round of inspections in a couple weeks.

Hope all is well

Chris Ott
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Congratulations, hopefully it's the start of a long career.

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Congrats!

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don't knock it....... my hairy keester's never sat in a p-51 . i'd be just as elated!!!

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Hi Chris. I don't know if we have met (perhaps at the WIX Gathering at my place during AirVenture?), but welcome to the team! I work over at the museum running the Timeless Voices of Aviation oral history program and working as assistant to the curator.

Do you live here in Oshkosh or nearby? We should hit a pub after work sometime...

Again, welcome to the EAA team!

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tom d. friedman wrote:
don't knock it....... my hairy keester's never sat in a p-51 . i'd be just as elated!!!


Way too much info, Tom!!!! :shock:

Way to go, Chris! May it be the first of many fabulous warbird experiences for you!
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sorry to traumatize you beachgirl.... i'll get some nair!! :wink:

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LOL! Thanks, Tom! :wink:
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You'll never know what you have started. My first experiance was with the B17 " Chuckie". I started working on it and decided to go to A&P school. I started restoring as a hobby. Then turned it in to a career. Be very careful, you could be next. :)

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You'll never know what you have started. My first experiance was with the B17 " Chuckie". I started working on it and decided to go to A&P school. I started restoring as a hobby. Then turned it in to a career. Be very careful, you could be next. :)


Yeah, Doug, before you know it, the chickies could be falling off wings into HIS arms!!!!!! :wink:

Jack, that is just WRONG!!! :D
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Since their making new cables does that mean their getting it ready to fly again ??? Perhaps to say a certain "Roundup" or "Gathering" ...
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Yeah, Doug, before you know it, the chickies could be falling off wings into HIS arms!!!!!! :wink:


It's a curse I bear, or bare, I hope no one else has to. :roll:

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Wow Jack thats one hairy keester :shock:

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what are you talking about??? jack swiped my senior year high school pic, that's nothing!!!! i double as a wool blanket in the evenings !!! & i do re -enactments too......... just put u.s. on me & fold me onto a ww 2 cot!!

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