Warbird Information Exchange

I think they are spares for the museums P2V Neptune.

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An exhibition run around the pylons solo... sure, why not. It would be pretty amazing.

Actually race? No way.

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Sure, Charles Lindbergh flew the plane... but Tom Rutledge built the engine!

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I agree, Fifi did it right?

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They are in fact spare engines for our Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune - Wright Cyclone R3350-32W's to be exact. Horsepower rating of 3,500 each.

Greg

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I think it SHOULD go to Reno... f

....or the RR Heritage thingie.

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Will it be complete for the 2010 MAAM WW2 Show?

From the MAAM website:

With the amount of work remaining to be accomplished (several years’ worth) and the variables involved, no completion date can be set at this time.

The P-61 project is worked on daily by a full-time professional restoration staff. When a completion date comes within a predictable timeframe, it will be promptly posted on this website.

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A talented Reno photographer from the late 60's /early 70's era named Ran Slaten wrote a two or three part fiction article for Sport Flying magazine back in about 1973 detailing the exploits of the "Phantom ..." Black Widow racer. In his storyline, if I recall correctly, the race modified (I believe with R-4360's) P-61 was secretly built up at its remote Northern California strip, then brought in on Sunday afternoon where it would join up with the racers coming down the chute for the championship race. It would, of course, win the race, do a victory roll, and then head off to its mystery base.

An enjoyable read.

A version of the story I always wanted to write was that Howard Hughes had a son, kept sheltered from the knowledge of the press. Howard disassembles his D-2/D-5/XP-73 project and moves it to a secret Arizona desert strip where the son is being raised. The November 1944 destruction of the prototype is faked (lightning hit the hangar on a clear desert night, ya right). The son grows up with the genius of his dad, but more of a bug for speed and racing. He redesigns the wing and puts the R-4360 technology his dad used on the XF-11 into the plane. He too invades the Reno Stead airspace every few years on Sunday in the all gloss black mystery plane and rules the Gold Unlimited race before booking off to horizons unknown.