Warbird Information Exchange

It's on ePay again....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Grand-51-Mustang-P-51-Turbine-Full-Scale-Carbon-Fiber-/170655221020?pt=Motors_Aircraft&hash=item27bbd8051c#v4-37

Bela P. Havasreti

Can someone answer me this question: Why?

If you want a warbird, it ain't a warbird. If you want a warbird replica, it ain't even that. It's kind of a bastardized version of a warbird replica. There are plenty of other planes out there that go fast and my guess is for less than the reserve price here.

It's like the equivalent of buying a Shelby A/C Cobra kit and grafting a Camaro front end on it or something. It just looks off.

To each their own I guess.

Agreed...but I wouldn't turn it down as a Christmas present!

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"Thirty seconds....We went like this, he went like that. I said to Hollywood, "Where'd he go?" Hollywood says, "Where'd who gooooooo?"

True...it's always fun to go fast, even better if it looks good, and best if it's free.

But all dreaming aside, this one's a definite head scratcher for me.

Ugly

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

It needs a new canopy, and the gear needs to retract, but it is a pretty cool airplane. I have owned airplanes and I find them pretty cool, being a pilot I find airplanes that go fast, look cool and are affordable are even better.
I'd be fine with it, after the Mustang windshield and canopy was installed!
Chris...

But that's just my point.

Goes fast = probably
Looks cool = highly debatable
affordable = also highly debatable. Although affordable is definitely a personally sliding scale, you could probably find something that looked better, could operate less expensively and get decent (or at least gave the impression of) good performance for far less.

Plus you gotta drop some more change to get those wheels to come up (and change the canopy...though this seems a dubious proposition given the construction type). Once again, why?

go to cameron and sons aircraft,murdo cameron built this and lost it in some kind of court battle, but the prototype had a D canopy and exaust stacks and looks 99% in my opinion,they just need to add some detail and a better paint job and its on the money....