"The Road to Reno"

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Neal Nurmi
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"The Road to Reno"

Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:40 pm

This is an outstanding look at what it took to prepare a clean relatively stock P-51D to go to the Races and really seriously compete with the "Big Dogs". It's a great article.


http://www.aafo.com/hangartalk/showthre ... +Road+Reno


ImageDanny-2_B2R0476 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr
Neal Nurmi
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Re: "The Road to Reno"

Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:43 pm

A couple more Ridge Runner shots:


ImageDanny-1-DSC_9371 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr



ImageDanny-3-_DSC9904 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr
Lon Moer
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Re: "The Road to Reno"

Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:24 pm

I love the gun port covers made out of soup ladles! :lol:
Joe Scheil
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Re: "The Road to Reno"

Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:04 am

Great article!
ZRX61
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Re: "The Road to Reno"

Thu Sep 13, 2018 1:27 am

Lon Moer wrote:I love the gun port covers made out of soup ladles! :lol:


That's a fairly common *mod* on P51's :)
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