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Michel Lemieux
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Older pictures of Walter's collection

Including old Race74......

http://svsm.org/gallery/soplata87/SO_87001

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Could be some updates in the near future.

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They look just like my pics without so much snow! I was there in March of 1985.

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Jerry O'Neill wrote:
They look just like my pics without so much snow! I was there in March of 1985.


Pretty much the same as what I saw in '01 or '02 when I went there, too.

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I was there in 2011 and some of the scenery is the same and some has changed. Trees are a lot bigger. :roll:

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Shots from 1982 and 1984 here...

http://s290.photobucket.com/user/StudeS ... t=3&page=1

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as of 2003 when I had the privilege to go their, there was only 1 side of the twin mustang their, & it was on a heap of debri

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Tom--

That will have been the XP-82...Walt only did have one fuselage from that one (plus a few other bits). I think by 2003 the intact EF-82E (ex-NACA) was already with the Amjet collection in MN. When I visited in the early 80s the XP parts, plus the hulk of a P-63A Kingcobra, were inside the B-36...

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mystery answered!!! thanks steve!! I was very confused how a twin stang vanishes!! what's the demise of the halfie??

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The XP is being rebuilt by Tom Rielly..as I recall, his team planned to use the existing fuselage as a pattern to build the missing one.

Latest info on the project can be found here: http://xp-82twinmustangproject.blogspot.com/p/home_17.html

I never realized Walt was able to score the B-36 for 99 cents..what a bargain!

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