F2G Test Run coming soon...

[Warbirdnerd]

Yummy!



New updates from 5/21/11 can be found here...

http://odegaardaviation.homestead.com/

[Jerry O'Neill]

YIPPEEEEEE!

[Speedy]

Yeah, that's just awesome....

Somewhere Cleleand and Becker are hoisting a brew over this one.

[StangStung]

Ooooooh baby...That makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Almost as good as when I heard Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis were going to hook up in Black Swan.

[kalamazookid]

Awesome! Can't wait to see it in the air!

[Dan K]

You're beautiful, Bryan! Many, many thanks for the link!

Anybody else see OSHKOSH written all over this?

Question now is can I go without sleep for a month and a half?

[N3Njeff]

Yeah, that's just awesome....

Somewhere Cleleand and Becker are hoisting a brew over this one.

I am sure soplata is right there pouring.

[whistlingdeath77]

wow

[lmritger]

Just the mere thought of Race 57 and 74 appearing together gives me huge goosebumps. This begs the question, aside from the wreckage of the P-38 still held by Tom Reilly and the ex-Lefty Gardner P-38 N25Y, are there any other surviving racers from the 1948-49 Thompson and Bendix races in airworthy condition? (Oh yeah, and Kermit Weeks' P-51C N1204, but she's been fully remilitarized)

Lynn

[Chappie]

Holy cow. That F2G is goregeous! Can't wait to see a video of that engine run!!

As for surviving Cleveland racers- Galloping Ghost still flying. It looks better than it used to, but I'd like to see it back to original...but that is another topic.

Anyway, this Race 74 looks fantastic and I agree that seeing 74 and 57 together would be awesome!

Lastly- the website shows an F2G in military colors with the captions they visited the last surviving F2G in a museum. So there are only three F2Gs in the world?


Chappie

[C VEICH]

So there are only three F2Gs in the world?

Yep!

[Mike]

?........Galloping Ghost still flying.

I thought we were talking about Cleveland racers.

[RMAllnutt]

?........Galloping Ghost still flying.

I thought we were talking about Cleveland racers.

Ummm... Galloping Ghost was a Cleveland Racer.... flown by the late great Steve Beville.

Cheers,
Richard

[Mike]

?........Galloping Ghost still flying.

I thought we were talking about Cleveland racers.

Ummm... Galloping Ghost was a Cleveland Racer.... flown by the late great Steve Beville.

Cheers,
Richard

So it was. I wonder, whatever happened to it after 1949?

[Jack Cook]

are there any other surviving racers from the 1948-49 Thompson and Bendix races in airworthy condition?

EVG's P-51D s/n 44-63576 is the X-"Jay Dee" X-''Wraith'' #37 flown by aces George Welch and Jim Hagerstrom. She's the first 51 I ever flew in

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