[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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