Warbird Information Exchange

Does anyone know what became of the wreckage of the original "Mister Mulligan"?

Dan

Did you read my last post about this? The airplane was rebuilt and destroyed again then buried.

No, sorry - my computer's doing wierd things and I couldn't find the origial post I had made. Thanks.

Dan

A fellow by the name of Bruce Dickenson is building a mulligan-esque plane at Santa Paula airport. It is such a sweet plane, I stop by and check on his progress frequently.

Oh my, that is pretty. Looks like he started with a DGA-15. How's he planning on finishing it?

Excellent recreation of "Mr. Mulligan". Fantastic job on all the sheetmetal work as well...especially the bump cowl. Does he have a projected time of a test flight?

What are the additional intake ducts for in the cowling? I would guess that two are for the carburetor, so are the others for an oil cooler or two?

Gary

The amount (and quality) of work Bruce has done is beyond words. The cowl and sheet metal was done by Will Kalbermatter with Bruce of course. This airplane has fuel injected 1340 on it (no carburator). It will be flying very soon. By the way they are now calling it the Mr. Dickenson.
The quality of the work that Will has done on the cowl is incredible you just cant believe he has formed that thing out of one piece of metal. I can't say enough about Bruce's work on building the entire airplane from scratch (everything). This is a very complex airplane and when you look at the quality you would be hard pressed to not think it was factory built.

beautiful work!! is this the Bruce Dickenson of Iron Maiden heavy metal band fame (who is a pilot)?

Bruce Dickinsons "MR Mulligan" flew today! He had quite a crowd. Amazing airplane. Beautiful landing. Apparently he had it up to 250mph.

SUPER!!!!! Any photos of the flight or finished product?

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walter soplata has a howard, but i think restoring it is out of the question due to extreme corrosion.

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I just got a whole bunch of photos emailed to me on the Mulligan above and the history behind the airplane. I'll cut and paste tomorrow what the answer is about the airplane.

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Here are the photos and some background that is being emailed to all us old antique airplane pilots:









Subject: "Mister Dickenson " first flight photos.
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:26:12 -0800
>
> A little more of Bruce Dickenson's first flight of his
> new airplane "Mister
> Dickenson";
>
>
>
> Here's a little information on Bruce Dickenson's
> hybrid "Mister Dickenson".
> First off this is not a modified Howard DGA, Bruce
> Dickenson, who's
> grandfather was one of the original founders of the Santa
> Paula Airport in
> the 1920's designed and build "MR. D " from
> scratch. He emphasizes that he
> borrowed a bunch from Benny Howard's, DGA and
> Howard's famous racer Mr.
> Mulligan designs and why not. He was pretty familiar with
> the Howard line of
> airplanes. The Dickenson family has been flying the same
> Howard DGA for
> almost half a century.
>
>
>
> Bruce wanted and airplane with a little more performance
> than the DGA. He
> decided what he needed was a cross between the comfort and
> nice flying
> characteristics of the DGA and the speed and performance to
> Howard's racer
> "Mr. Mulligan". The result after eights years of
> pains taking labor is the
> beautifully crafted "Mister Dickenson". Bruce
> built the airplane pretty much
> by himself. Of course there are a lot of talented people
> around the Santa
> Paula Airport that lent a hand when it was needed. And
> naturally getting
> advise on how to do anything around and airport is never a
> problem.
>
>
>
> "Mister Dickenson" is powered By a 600 HP Pratt
> & Whitney 1340 engine. It
> was designed to have a cruise airspeed of 210 MPH. The
> first reports look
> like the airplane is going to meet that target. Check with
> Bruce
>
>
>
> When your in Southern California drop in to Santa Paula
> some weekend and
> take a look at "Mister Dickenson" and the other
> wonderful antique and
> Classic airplanes that live at the airport. Try and
> coordinate your visit to
> Santa Paula Airport on one of the days that the Aviation
> Museum of Santa
> Paula is open. They have a new museum facility and a
> "Chain of Hangar" which
> is a great walking tour of some great aircraft and aviation
> displays.
>

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Curator for the Waco Historical Society Air Museum
Writer for VINTAGE AIRPLANE, SKYWAYS, BARNSTORMERS.COM EFLYER

Bruce said his engine will be able to produce 740HP at full throttle.