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Tom Moungovan
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At about 4PM this afternoon, Chris Prevost took his 8 year project aloft for the first time. It had recently been inspected and workmanship & documentation were judged exceptional.
Flying chase in the SNJ were Tom Morris & Denny Jones. The flight was pretty uneventful except for the pair of rolls over the airport. Fellow WIXers Roger Cain & Taigh Ramey were there also...I expect Roger to follow this with some of his photos.
A historic wonderful day. Everyone at the airport was happy for Chris, he earned it.

Mod Ed: Just thought I'd update the thread title, and I keep thinking there's loads of new P-40s at Schellville! JDK
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That had to be a very special day. 8)

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Congratulations Chris!
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Great to see another hard-worker fighter back in the air! Congrats.

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Great news! Can't wait to see some pictures! :D
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I cant wait for the low pass video over the airsrtip.Happy guy!

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and the airstrip :roll:

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Excellent news! I hope it keeps the very plain OD scheme!

I'm looking forward to the day when I can see it flying at an airshow.
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hang the expense wrote:
I cant wait for the low pass video over the airsrtip.Happy guy!



I juggled two cameras while it was up, and I don't like doing this, but sometimes you get away with it and the efforts of one do not detract from the other. I did get video & now am on the hunt for someone locally to convert this to DVD.
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Fannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnntastic!

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Sky was crud, but the flying was excellent, looking forward to some sun in the future. Chris did a remarkable job of getting this plane into the air again.

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What a great day!

Congrats to all involved.

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A good friend of mine will be happy to hear of this, he was one of the guys
who originally recovered this in Iron Range, North Queensland. Australia

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That's great news.

She looks beautiful in the air. Nice photograghs by the way.

Way to go to everyone involved.

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WOW, great news - congrats to Mr Prevost! She looks splendid.
If I'm correct, there is now 24 (active) P-40's in flying condition.

Ben

PS: Roger, you've message :wink:


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