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P-51 D "Louisiana Kid" has arrived in Germany end of February (26.) at Albstadt Degerfeld, and will stay in Germany. Airshows will be attended this year in current paintscheme. It is intended to be repainted in next winter.

http://www.heinzaero.com/index.php?id=53?&L=1

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Michael

Glad to see the aircraft is not just sitting anymore. Good luck to the new owner!
Robbie

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Thank you for the links and update, Michael. There was this encouraging video posted early last month by Heinz Aero of a test flight with the aircraft while it was in Baton Rouge that looks to possibly have taken place late last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdqBsTWC3KM

As an untrained observer, however, it does look like the aircraft could still use some serious amounts of TLC.

I would like to hear your thoughts if (as someone jokingly suggested on a German forum) the owner would choose a paintscheme of one of the 2 P-51 D´s captured by the Luftwaffe. Well, I certainly prefer painted ones to pure aluminium-silver ones.



Michael

I think it would be cool.

Here we go, folks...
Seriously, if somebody complains, you can tell them it's a tribute to the movie Fighter Squadron...

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The KG200 paint job was something a buddy and I used to muse about doing to a B-17 if either of us won the lottery.
But a Mustang in Germany, painted in captured markings for a testing/eval unit?
'nevah gonna happen, GI!

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Congrats to the new owner. I saw it several times when we had trips into KBTR but its going to be a major project to get back in the air...

The paint scheme is a really fun idea.
Couldn't happen though, as displaying the swastika is illegal in Germany.

Andy Scott

You are of course right about displaying the swastika. But it could be done in a way similar to the ex-Kindsvater Buchon of Air Fighter Academy, as you will see in the pic below, taken by me at Breitscheid Airshow 2010:



Michael

Redvanner I'm sorry to sidetrack the thread a bit,but I wondered if there were any more updates on an original BF109 that's being rebuilt in Austria/Germany? I saw it having engine runs and taxi runs on "you tube",but can't find it now.Thanks.

If it was my aircraft, and I was considering a paint scheme like that, I would just do it with minimal preparation, just like during the war.
That way it could be operated for a season or two until the ultimate scheme was decided upon, and the cost would be minimal.

I did think about painting the swastika like that photo (it's remarkably effective!)

Maybe enough buzz will sway the owner, this is a cool opportunity!!

Andy Scott

It's in Germany, where shiny, polished schemes are de rigueur these days. Just look at what they did to 'Big Beautiful Doll', stripped off all the paint and polished it to a mirror finish, so much so that the poor Frenchman in the following Skyraider was blinded by the glare and couldn't see where he was going!

It's not nice to make fun of things like that Mike.

It's not nice, but it's pretty darn funny

Andy Scott

For a post on a German forum I had to alter the profile I posted here already. So it would be perfectly ok ( IF the owner likes to choose a paintscheme like this) to do it like the one below:



Michael