Flying Review International, October 1963

[Tulio]

Tonight, going through my books, I found a bound volume of "Flying Review International" (Vol. 19 No.1, Oct. 1963)

Page 3 has the photo of Nakajima Ki.84 Hayate.

What happened to it? Survives?

Page 32, has this shot of 2 x P-51Ds, reportedly owned at the time by two Seattle business partners, who used the Mustangs to commute to California.

Do these Mustangs survive?

Saludos,


Tulio

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[mike furline]

The Ki-84 was the Ed Maloney/Air Museum airframe, currently back in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_Ki-84

N2869D http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/su ... l/44-84390

N5482V (Interesting placement of the N#.) http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/su ... l/44-73343

[Neal Nurmi]

Have a look at this (if the link works).

69D finished first at the very first Reno, flown by Bob Love.



https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=be ... &FORM=VIRE

[Tulio]

Thank you, guys!

Excellent video, and good information.


Saludos,


Tulio

[Michel Lemieux]

Tks Neal! This is a GREAT historical video if you consider the warbird industry overall!!!!!

Have a look at this (if the link works).

69D finished first at the very first Reno, flown by Bob Love.



https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=be ... &FORM=VIRE

[Neal Nurmi]

There was a very active warbird scene up there in the sixties and seventies. Ben Hall, in the second Mustang, was an active racer in the early years of the Reno era, and later built up the well known F-86A. Lyford's airplane (later known as "The Bardahl Special" and later "Challenger"), seems to have been 25 mph faster than the other Mustang racers of the mid sixties and pioneered several features that have been crucial in the development of faster Mustangs. Merlin guru Dwight Thorne got started by working on the airplane and I believe that engineer/photographer Jim Larsen also worked with Lyford. Radiator spray bars for cooling were first used on this airplane -- a stock Mustang cannot run much power for a whole race without spray bars. Lots of interesting people and airplanes.

The Haskin brothers knew many of these folks through Brad's hydroplane connections. Maybe he'll chime in. Sledge39 has many photos of the era, including Lyford's Mustang. I'd be interested in seeing and hearing their memories of the Seattle scene and the early Reno racing scene.

Neal

[Neal Nurmi]

Here's another (poor quality but very interesting) video of Air Racing in 1965. It features 69D and Ben Hall as well as a lot of other great sixties warbird stuff (is that the the Planes of Fame B-17 at 4:40 or so?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymkF7Eu_ElA

[mike furline]

Looks like it, http://warbirdregistry.org/b17registry/b17-4483684.html

[Chris Brame]

Yep - probably the only flying B-17 wearing combat colors back then:

[JohnB]

Considering its triangle A markings, could if be POF's "Piccadilly Lily" in "Twelve O'Clock High" TV markings?
She was airworthy back then.