Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

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Liberator3
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Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:55 am

Australia's latest CAC Mustang has flown today in Victoria. Peter Gill's CA-23 Mustang A68-199 has today flown for the first time in nearly 28years. Here it is taking off at Tyabb, Victoria. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... S_TIMELINE
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Re: Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:59 pm

Don't mean to burst yer bubble, but Mustangs don't take off with full flaps in. Nice picture but just worded incorrectly. :P :P
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Re: Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Sat Dec 17, 2016 10:42 am

Just curious, does anybody know if this Peter Gill is the same one who runs the flight-manuals-on-cd online store?
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Re: Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:01 pm

Liberator3 wrote:Australia's latest CAC Mustang has flown today in Victoria. Peter Gill's CA-23 Mustang A68-199 has today flown for the first time in nearly 28years. Here it is taking off at Tyabb, Victoria. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... S_TIMELINE

That's BOZ man! :roo:
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Re: Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Mon Dec 19, 2016 8:10 am

Just to clear up a couple of errors in the original post:

It is not a CA-23 (that was a cancelled fighter project) it is a CA-18 MK23 Mustang (made under licence in Australia from NA) and yes it is certainly landing, not taking off.....

Congrats are in order to Peter Gill for an outstanding restoration job, looks amazing :D
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Re: Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:20 pm

A stunning end result! Fantastic news.
Lon Moer
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Re: Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Wed Dec 21, 2016 4:22 pm

Lon Moer wrote:
Liberator3 wrote:Australia's latest CAC Mustang has flown today in Victoria. Peter Gill's CA-23 Mustang A68-199 has today flown for the first time in nearly 28years. Here it is taking off at Tyabb, Victoria. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... S_TIMELINE

That's BOZ man! :roo:

:? :?
This was a funny joke, and nobody got it. :(

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Re: Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:34 pm

I see what you did there :supz: :lol:

BOZ is now a Cessna apparently :/ I know which one I'd prefer!
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Re: Australia's latest flying Mustang - airborne today

Thu Dec 22, 2016 3:15 pm

I recognised the rego and didn't realise! Sorry Lon! If this was an Aussie forum you'd probably have been swamped with responses!
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