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Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:32 pm
I imagine that if you have the money to restore such an aircraft, preserve some history, you can do what you like with it. We all prefer to see them fly but it's an owner's right to do what he/she wants with it. Paint it pink, who cares, as long as it survives for the future.
If there are dodgy a/c around that wouldn't pass inspection then sooner or later could it be argued that they will reflect badly on the Warbird industry?
Just thinking out loud, as with the previous post.
Cheers
Andy
Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:02 pm
The last gathering of 3 P-38's in one place might have been at Peterson Field in Colorado Springs for an airshow and P-38 Statue unveiling by Robert Henderson...at that time (I believe it was 1992) we had the CAF's two seater (now crashed and awaiting repair), Lefty Gardner's, and the William Lyons example which suffered a wheels up landing in AZ on the way home from the event....but they all three did attend and did fly, when they could get Lefty off the Pete field Golf course to fly his...
Mark
Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:14 pm
Maybe this is why they are so rare in the air. All 3 which attended have since crashed.
Steve
Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:54 pm
Sounds like Chino will need to be the place someday. Maybe YAF could at least taxi theirs that day.
I guess a movie someday about one our nation's top two aces is a real longshot with this mostly static population.
Let's just hope that pile of bulldozed P-38's will yield 5-10 more fliers in the next ten years. What is the latest word on that? Is Paul Allen presently having one or two restored?
Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:29 pm
At last count, I had 7 P-38s listed as flyable.
Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:07 am
L. Thompson wrote:Sounds like Chino will need to be the place someday. Maybe YAF could at least taxi theirs that day.
That would be Yanks, formerly Yankee Air Corps. YAF was Dave Tallichet, but his P-38 days appear to be long over (except in fiberglass maybe). His company is now called MARC (Military Aircraft Restoration Corp.).
Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:15 am
Absolutely right bdk--Yanks is what I meant to say. Just typing faster than I was thinking.
I'm still hoping someone will come up with an old air-to-air photo of the Mark Hurd or Spartan P-38s in a 3 or 4 plane formation. Wonder if that was ever done?
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