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 Post subject: Now Comes The Hard Part!
PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 6:51 pm 
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Fixing the 2800 is easy...............
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but figuring out the cowling pieces is a different story :shock:

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a P-47 cowl is easy, try cowling up a B-24 sometime...............

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 Post subject: 24 cowling
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Agreed,24 cowling is tough.Dang near impossible but gets easier the more you do it.

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It's a lot easier since the guys labeled them during this year's maintenance. :)


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try and imagine what it would look like with some of the cowl panels checked diagonally from the one behind it, on second thought that could throw off the enemies aim some----

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