[ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at verizon.net
Mon Jul 26 23:28:03 EDT 2010


On 26 Jul 2010 at 18:50, Gary Pewitt wrote:

> America.  The P-38 would most likely be worth much more than a P-51 as 
> it is considerably more rare.

Yes. Agreed. Also, my favorite airplane...

>  When I was a teenager living on Lackland 
> AFB in the late 50's there  was an F-81 on Display.  That's two P-51s 
> stuck together

Actually, although that is what it looked like, it was a completely new design. It even had 
Allison engines, not Merlins. Unfortunately, most of those were used up in the first months of 
the Korean War. They were a truly superb aircraft. 

Dang....sad...

Ken Gordon W7EKB


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