[ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives

Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS frederic.clarke at navy.mil
Tue Jul 27 09:42:50 EDT 2010


Oops! That was the F-82 Twin Mustang!  Talk about rare!

73 de Tom/W4OKW


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Pewitt [mailto:garypewitt at centurytel.net] 
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:50 PM
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.
Cc: Roy Morgan
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives

And to think you could buy a completely re-manufactured P-51 called a 
Caviler 2000  for $15,000.00 in the late sixties.  They had a back seat 
added in the radio position and the machine gun bays held luggage.  That

price, by the way, was the same as a top of the line Ferrari Super 
America.  The P-38 would most likely be worth much more than a P-51 as 
it is considerably more rare.  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 to make an even longer range bomber escort.  Now that 
would -really- be rare.  They also had the one and only XC-199, a 
cargo/troop carrier version of the B-36.  Sure hope the didn't scrap 
it.  There was probably some ARC gear in the B-25 and B-17 on display to

keep this at least a little on topic. ;-)

73  Gary  N9ZSV



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