Soplata F-82 Twin Mustang to Tom Reilly

[Rod Schneider]

A number of years ago, at the downtown Ft. Collins airport here in Colorado, sitting off the end of the runway was the wreck of the old Morrison Knudsen LB-30 AL 557 which I have posted pics of here before....while poking around in it we came across some sections of aircraft that we could'nt quite identify...a mid wing section and a cockpit section and the bottom of another cockpit section...only later did we figure out that they were parts off of a P-82.....they might have been some of the Alaskan parts Mr. Odgers found, as the LB-30 came to town as a wreck from Alaska...dunno where they wound up, the wreck of the LB-30 is now (or was last I saw) alongside Darryl Skurich's place at the former airport so I assume he has the P-82 parts too, possibly in storage for the Whittington brothers.

Mark

Hmmmm......Tom Reilly did point to a pile of bent metal and mentioned that it came from a wreck in Alaska. He's using it for a number of parts and patterns.

[Rod Schneider]

A number of years ago, at the downtown Ft. Collins airport here in Colorado, sitting off the end of the runway was the wreck of the old Morrison Knudsen LB-30 AL 557 which I have posted pics of here before....while poking around in it we came across some sections of aircraft that we could'nt quite identify...a mid wing section and a cockpit section and the bottom of another cockpit section...only later did we figure out that they were parts off of a P-82.....they might have been some of the Alaskan parts Mr. Odgers found, as the LB-30 came to town as a wreck from Alaska...dunno where they wound up, the wreck of the LB-30 is now (or was last I saw) alongside Darryl Skurich's place at the former airport so I assume he has the P-82 parts too, possibly in storage for the Whittington brothers.

Mark

Hmmmm......Tom Reilly did point to a pile of bent metal and mentioned that it came from a wreck in Alaska. He's using it for a number of parts and patterns.

[Rod Schneider]

Now, how did that happen???? I hate doing double posts..............

[seaknight15]

Check out MaxAir2Air for new update Pic's on C&P's F-82 center section.

[Matt Gunsch]

Check out MaxAir2Air for new update Pic's on C&P's F-82 center section.

It helps if you would post a link to where you are talking about

http://maxair2air.com/09AIR/P-82Progress2/01.html

[Pogmusic]

Is it true that the switch from Merlins to Allisons came about because the USAAF was reluctant to pay royalties to Rolls Royce post war? Sounds a pretty lame argument but why was the switch made?[/quote]

I don't think that would be an issue. During World War One, Springfield continued to pay the royalties due Mauser Werk AG for the patent on the Mauser 93 receiver that the Springfield M-1903 was based on.

[seaknight15]

Sorry Matt.I was in a hurry.Won't happen again. Have a good day

[dred]

I'd guess there was post-war pressure to buy American, especially with Allison being owned by GM at the time.

[Steve Nelson]

The version I heard was that after years of development the Allison had finally been "perfected," and since the US Gov't had given the engine considerable financial backing, they wanted a return on their investment.

SN

[Xrayist]

The P-82 parts in Ft. Collins were sitting at the end of the field long before the LB-30 arrived. Anyone else but me see all the B-17 parts around that area?