Joe Scheil wrote:
A huge number of the Museum aircraft fly, and do so on volunteer help and dollars. No other organization flies so many heavy iron aircraft with the safety record the POF has, with the continuing restoration work concurrently running besides.
Joe, are you in sales?
The P-38 recently had an engine change, and the P-40 had an engine change with the test flight only occurring on the Friday of the airshow. I think that right now a lot of effort is going into supporting the national tour which generates money for the museum.
Luckily there isn't anything seriously wrong with the P-51A, it's just a matter of priorities. I think that it was sidelined with a radiator problem at the airshow a few years ago- in any case it was generating copious amounts of steam!