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Michel Lemieux
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Found via a weird link with no names?

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XV-5? Man it's ugly
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That was fast!....tks. And yes it is ugly.

Just ventured to find obscured AC pics...

Here is another one

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I think its cute... :P
Needs bigger wheels though...

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How about this?

What engines are those?

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Michel Lemieux
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Needs bigger wheels though...

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No wheels needed...just like a heli they are so ugly earth naturaly repels them......Only needed to move them around once back on terra firma.
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Spot on GRNDP51! Tks again.

Have a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aBOmBzcgPE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_XV-5_Vertifan

Odd...thinking I knew most of the VTOL NA history!

And now I get the weird nose doors!
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Michel Lemieux wrote:
How about this?

What engines are those?

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On the left, a Griffon. Probably from a Firefly.
On the right a Merlin from maybe a Whitley
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Michel - is that a BT-13/SNV?
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is that a BT-13/SNV?


No clue am not in expert on the BT-13 but the cowl and windshield seem off to me.
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one of the famous soplata collection there that vibrator
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is that a BT-13/SNV?


No clue am not in expert on the BT-13 but the cowl and windshield seem off to me.



Just checked and found a photo from the same angle...the windscreen matched.

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Michel Lemieux wrote:
How about this?

What engines are those?

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The engine on the left is a Packard Merlin V-1650-7 coming from P-51D 44-13663 that was recovered in 1981 by association Ailes Anciennes in France.

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The wreck was displayed for a few years at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le bourget airport, before being given back to our association. The engine was loaned/donated in 1991 or 1991 and was on display in a museum near Utah Beach, and is probably still there. The rest of the wreck left for England in August 1997.

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Thanks Laurent.
Happy to be corrected :wink:

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The engine on the left is a Packard Merlin V-1650-7 coming from P-51D 44-13663 that was recovered in 1981 by association Ailes Anciennes in France.

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The wreck was displayed for a few years at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le bourget airport, before being given back to our association. The engine was loaned/donated in 1991 or 1991 and was on display in a museum near Utah Beach, and is probably still there. The rest of the wreck left for England in August 1997.

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The a/c you referenced is listed as 44-13954.

http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/su ... l/44-13954
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p51regis ... 13954.html

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