FM-2 Wildcats!

[kalamazookid]

This is one I'd expect to see go to Paul Allen's FHC.

When was the last time he bought a complete aircraft though? I feel like everything he has acquired recently has been a restoration project that he has had restored.

I hope whoever ends up with the aircraft shares it with the public and flies the heck out of it. A fantastic restoration like this deserves a good home!

[Warbird Kid]

This is one I'd expect to see go to Paul Allen's FHC.

When was the last time he bought a complete aircraft though? I feel like everything he has acquired recently has been a restoration project that he has had restored.

I hope whoever ends up with the aircraft shares it with the public and flies the heck out of it. A fantastic restoration like this deserves a good home!

Ditto! Either FHC, or a group like Collings. Then the Collings Foundation would turn around and sell the very special Dick Foote three seater FM-2 to someone like American Airpower or someone like that, who would operate the aircraft as it appears today. No modifications.

[ronl]

Absolutely awesome post! Great looking FM-2. Would you be able to post any pages from the FM-2 Erection and Maintenance manual or the Parts Catalog showing details of the .50 cal gun installation? I presume there were blast tubes in the wings. Was there a smooth barrel jacket on the guns as well, similar to the jackets on the F6F guns (inboard and middle)? I don't think the outboard gun on the F6F had a jacket, so maybe the jackets were only used if the guns extended from the wing edges. Thanks.

Ronl

[kim]

On the off chance of bringing an old thread back to life: I absolutely love this thread. I'm currently in the process of recreating an exact digital replica of the FM-2, so the information and pictures in this thread are absolutely awesome.

My reason for posting though is, in one of the first post there was a mention of microfilm being digitized to CD. I have a couple of sets of drawings for the plane, but there's a lot of crucial ones missing, or barely readable.
So I was hoping that maybe your collection might fill some of those gaps.

Thanks!