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 Post subject: What If: Navy P-51
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Has anyone ever built a Navy Mustang had they been approved for carrier use?

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After a few beers, a freind of mine once started hacking up the wings of an A-36. His plan was to graft them onto the fuselage of a P-51B and make a folding-wing carrier-based Mustang dive bomber (I think we were gonna call it the SBJ-1). Unfortunately, he lost interest in the project once he sobered up. 8)

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I've got an extra SpeCast P-51 (Yeager) lying around.... :twisted:

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Django wrote:
I've got an extra SpeCast P-51 (Yeager) lying around.... :twisted:


DO IT!!!

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Now that is a cool idea! This should drive the IPMS guys nuts!!! :lol:
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Actually, my buddy was screwing around with the kit in the hotel room at the 2002 IPMS Nationals... 8)

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I don't think the Navy guys' would know how to deal with a liquid cooled engine...
Just think of it, 1500 plus guys on a carrier in the Pacific, they want a brew or a shot, there would be little "stills/breweries" all over the ship.
When it came time to fill the glycol tanks on the Navy version of the P-51 the crew drank most of it....
Seriously the complex engines that the Army Air Corps used did not or would not work well on a Carrier, the Navy opted to use the very rugged radial engines.
But that is a cool idea for a model, especially if the war in the Pacific had lasted longer and the Navy needed a great aircraft like the Mustang...
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Ooo, just found this!

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php ... ,p-51.html

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That Sea Fury is quite cool!
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