Warbird Information Exchange

It was new to me. Enjoy

http://p51sig.ipbfree.com/index.php?showtopic=321

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Charles Neely

For those of us who do not care to become members of the site, perhaps you could summarize?

August

Hate to copy it but here it is..........

I don't know anything more.........

Mark H

Very nice. But there is another on the way. This pic was one of a few I recieved from Allan Cook of Pacific Fighters and it will also sport a malcolm hood. It will be flying the colors of the 376th/361st P-51B Impatient Virgin?
Got this pic back in April so hope is to see the finished ac soon.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/nuthouse/E9R.jpg

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Fly safe or you get to meet me .......

This is a data plate rebuild on 361st FG P-51B s/n 42-106638 which crashed in the UK during WWII.

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Don't touch my junk!!

A John Sessions airplane I see. I read some time back that the county offered Sessions a lease deal to move his birds to Paine Field. Anything ever come of that? Quite forward-thinking of the local govt to try to turn that airport into a vintage aircraft destination.

August

I'm really looking forward to seeing this aircraft completed. The canopy is a bit more authentic then on the Roush example, featuring no metal straps along the forward and rear lips of the canopy. The cockpit has also been restored to full stock configuration. I can only imagine that the markings should be very eye-catching. Thank you Mark for providing the photo here!

August, Sessions does have his collection based now at Paine Field. I know that his P-51D and Tigercat are currently there.

Does anyone here have a contact with someone at Pacific Fighters? For the project I'm working on, I'd love to have some specific photos of the canopy assembly and cockpit of this particular aircraft if that could be possible.

Question - I was under the impression that the Malcolm hoods were all field installations modified by the various crew chiefs. Wouldn't that mean that there could technically have been some variation between one installation to the next?

Zack

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Volunteer Coordinator/Curator - Military Aviation Museum - Virginia Beach, VA
"America's Flying Museum"
http://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org

Yes, there were variations of individual installations. However the hood and its equipment were manufactured itms and show a great deal of parts identicality. Angles and functions would only work one way. The idividualality seems to be in mirrors fitted and weatherstripping of the forward edge, where it slid into the aft edge of stock windshield frame Most quite profesional, but some were a bit ragged. While the Roush hood is not quite accurate, it is a refreashing change (did anyone ever think that was going to ever happen?) from the relative majority of P-51B/C's.

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Charles Neely

I guess it is all starting to make sense now. The one half of the P-82 that is going to be made into a flyer again, etc. In the 1970's there were only about 30 flyable Mustangs in private hands, including racers. Now you can ask, "What's your favorite A, B, or C model? The Malcolm hood now means everything has been done that can be done to a single engine Mustang.
Now it's time to get that XP-51G a Few H's, and those three P-82's flying again!

Not to mention the A-36.

Good times. Good times.

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Johns new hangar under constrution west of the 262 Project.

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" excuse me stewardess I speak jive"

It was either a Depot or service group Mod ~ 80 hours.. definitely not a crew chief mod