Warbird Information Exchange

Well if I could have a fleet, Kenlyco has is right with that corsair. Its perfect. But for the bag of gold and only one. I got to get on the bus for this one.

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Ok Scott. This is a possibility. All we have to do is go to Hendon. I will cause a distraction (I am good at that!) and all you have to do is push this out the back door and you are on your way. Easy!!!!!
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All that airplane and all they shot up was one tank??????

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But it was a really BIG tank!

I identified my choice as the following.


JDK Wrote:

Why?


JDK,

I guess the answer is, I find the fact that there aren't any flying and that what little I know of it, is that it's very challenging to fly, compelling. In that regard, it's alot like the Yale. Also a lot of good men prepared for bigger and more important multis in this weird little art deco trainer.
Although I haven't responded to the "If you could own a Mustang (or whatever other airframe) would you own" threads, I generally could own most any of the types that are mentioned, but, while the really common ones are appealing, none of them are desireable enough to me to aquire one. I like them all and would enjoy flying any of them, but to have them long term I think you have to have a bigger interest than just the way they fly. The whole "status symbol" thing is virtually meaningless to me at this point, I have more respect and admiration for the difficultly of flying a PT-22 well than making a low pass in the P-51 or Corsair, but it's hard to compare them exactly, particularly because I have only flown the types I have purchased. I generally don't fly other peoples airplanes.
The more I think about the warbird community and the longer I am involved, the more I am attracted to the less common types. I really like the AT-9 and the Mauler, because they are rare. The O-47 really appeals to me for the same reason. Probably quite a while down the road before I get the bug for a Walrus though.

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Why aren't you plotting a raid to Kansas City with Mike R., or wherever that O-47 is languishing nowadays, finishing that one up as a Maryland 104th Observation Squadron O-47 in honor of your understudy Forgotten Field, and making my day...

I have the hots for an O-47. I don't know if I told the story here, but this was related to me by an old Baltimore resident WWII veteran who lived right across from their Harbor Field service area. Right before WWII, North American still had a service station for their aircraft at Dundalk MD. The place they were located was right next to the street car that went to the Sparrow's Point steel mills. In order to get the airplanes into the hangar, they had to locate them in such a way that the wing hung out over the tracks and stopped the street car. He said that he watched it several times when the Eastern Europeans were heading to and from work at the steel mills and got out of the street car to set up hooting and hollering in several languages at the North American Folks to get the plane out of the way. They didn't like being late for work, and they didn't like being late for beer.

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I would have to say either a p-51(Donald), p-47(Hun Hunter), or F4u that looks extremely original on the exterior with some modern touches on the interior. Or an original version of this great looking replica FW190.

Hmmmm, that's a tough question !!!

Only one aircraft ?

Well, I guess then it would be a Mustang:


Or a Spitfire:



But if the bag was small, it would be an LC-126:


or, a Harvard:


Hard choices indeed...

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Unquestionably this....



Oh my....bombs, tail gunner, wing guns and single engine biplane performance..and a big ol' 440hp Wright...hot hot hot. That thing makes my socks roll up n down.

I'll even take it with the Pratt ....

"Step aside Capt. Ortiz....I'm takin' this ship for a lil' spin!"

as computer dyslexic as i am i wish i could figure out the photo bucket

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

I don't have a picture I can post right now, but for me if I could own a warbird it'd be a P-61. I had been plotting with friends about how to do it, but we ran into one problem - we couldn't find any hulls that we could reasonably restore. We knew how to get the money, we knew how to get the skills (and training), we just didn't know how to find the plane itself.

In the absence of a P-61, I would have to say that I'd probably try to get myself something useful like a LC-126 or (dreaming again) a C-2 Greyhound. Why a Greyhound? Because I can get a civil certificate on it in the standard category and charter it for cargo runs.

Like Eric I would go for rare. I'll go him one better with an AT-10. Wait a minute I allready own it, its just a matter of the thousands of hours it will take to get it restored.

I'm kind of partial, if I couldn't have this as my own,



I'd settle for one of those two place Spitfires, I've heard they are really nice.

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Tom wrote:



Tom, How could I teach you to use Photobucket when I've been trying to teach you to use the "Shift" key for all these years, TO NO AVAIL.

Mudge the frustrated

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