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Another P-82 restoration

Tue May 20, 2008 3:21 pm

Forgive me if this has already been mentioned but in the current issue of Air Classics (I know boo,hiss) there is an article about the acquistion of a P-82 by Tom Reilly. The Twin Mustang (44-83887) comes from Walter Soplata and although it is missing one of the fuselages Tom Reilly intends to restore the plane to fly! It will be one heck of a restoration considering the missing fuselage will have to be replicated.

Re: Another P-82 restoration

Tue May 20, 2008 3:41 pm

Pat Carry wrote:Forgive me if this has already been mentioned but in the current issue of Air Classics (I know boo,hiss) there is an article about the acquistion of a P-82 by Tom Reilly. The Twin Mustang (44-83887) comes from Walter Soplata and although it is missing one of the fuselages Tom Reilly intends to restore the plane to fly! It will be one heck of a restoration considering the missing fuselage will have to be replicated.


Forgiven. :wink:

Tue May 20, 2008 4:02 pm

Why did the p-82 have allisons and not merlins?

Tue May 20, 2008 4:14 pm

Just a quick question, since I don't have the article, but I thought that Tom Reilly was retiring after restoring the Labrador B-17 down in Georgia? Does this mean that the P-82 will now be his last restoration, or is he back for good?

Tue May 20, 2008 4:39 pm

gsheff wrote:Why did the p-82 have allisons and not merlins?


Because after the war, the air force did not want to have to pay royalties to Rolls Royce to use the Merlin. The Allison was a American made engine.

Tue May 20, 2008 5:36 pm

Ours has Merlins.

Gary

P82

Tue May 20, 2008 9:25 pm

"Ours"???

Is there an update at hand? j/k I hope this becomes the case!

Tommy

Wed May 21, 2008 4:16 am

I mean the one that we have in our hangar that we feed and water and take outside to poop and pee every so often. :roll: :lol:

No, no updates yet. But stay tuned..........

Gary

P-82

Wed May 21, 2008 10:29 pm

No building that one into space.It will require fixtures and more than a few of them.I looked at the engine mount from the bird and man is it involved.You will need one hell of a fixture just for the mount.Anyone know if the are same left and right?

Thu May 22, 2008 9:02 am

retroaviation wrote:I mean the one that we have in our hangar that we feed and water and take outside to poop and pee every so often. :roll: :lol:

No, no updates yet. But stay tuned..........

Gary


If you had to have one to just take care of, well, that's a pretty darn good one! Changing the litter box, newspaper, giving it a wash, etc just to look at it everyday doesn't sound so bad. Then again, I'm not doing those chores.

Hope to hear some good news soon. Ears are tuned. :twisted: (see the ears)

Tommy
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