Best warbird

Darkened room? Just because i’ve seen the light?

Looks a bit like it, I could rent it out to recovering Mustang fanatics 😀 😀 😀

Yak11
Have you got a space in your darkened room as Snapper could do with some down time in there it would seem:D 😀 😀 😀

Originally posted by SteveYoung
(he says, without trying to detract from the Mustang banter… 😀 )

ooopppsss… for got it was a tabo subject *zips un mouth and removes fingers from keyboard*

hehehe

Originally posted by Flat 12×2
The majority of P-51D aerials (85%) are SILVER, 10% BLACK (without invasion strips) 5% could be dark brown, olive or faded black, it doesn’t get any more accurate than that.

But when they are drawn of the shelf in the stores they are just plane wood. That’s part of my point. The black and silver ones have a metal…’sleeve’ over them and that is what’s painted (for the black ones anyways i guess silver would be bare metal during the war). So if ya wanna be picky…hehehe… they are all still wood *big cheeky grin* But thanks for that, it’s an interesting fact.

Re: Best Warbird

Originally posted by black6
Let’s bring on some Axis muscle. If money were no object – and to balance out all these Allied Fighters with nothing to Dogfight with over Greer’s back garden……………………………………………

BLACK 6 (with me at the controls – of course!)

Anyone know what happened to the other 109 that was flying around the same time as Black6, I think it was a G10 and was it Hans Dittesthat owned it? I’ve not heard anything about it for ages, does it still fly? Or is it now grounded?

Originally posted by David Burke
As for the Gipsy – well it’s a matter of understanding the breed and treating it with respect !

I’ve heard that from a few people David, certainly seems like a tricky but rewarding lump to fly behind. 🙂

As for my ‘best’ warbird? Beaufighter (obviously), closely followed by Spitfire V and Chipmunk. Purely from personal ‘ooh aah’ factor. 😀

(he says, without trying to detract from the Mustang banter… 😀 )

AT6 / Black knight
In one of my favourite books -Fighter command- American Fighters in original WWII color
The majority of P-51D aerials (85%) are SILVER, 10% BLACK (without invasion strips) 5% could be dark brown, olive or faded black, it doesn’t get any more accurate than that.

4 goes, 1 crash, shrunk from 90 down to 40kb. But of course it’s ‘going to be fixed wither the server upgrade’ isn’t it.

Originally posted by Yak 11 Fan
Come on Snapper, get it together :p

i was about to say the same thing!! hehe

Come on Snapper, get it together :p

Last try, dammit.

It does doens’t it?
Well i asume you mean it’s him, can’t be me i was sitting in a P-51 tonight. (i’ve had a couple to drink, so forgive spellings)

I guess the only thing is in the UK, the CAA only let you have 100% authentic schemes, otherwise you have to put the reg down the side of it.
Wooden aerials are standard fit, my dad sold a spare one to PT and it comes wooden. The painted ones have a metal ‘sleeve’ over them that is painted.

AT6

There is a well known saying attributed to Spencer Flack. It goes along the lines of ‘When you own a Spitfire, you can paint it in whatever colour scheme you like’

Looks like someone is jealous!

When I worked on F-AZIE, a CAC Mk 22 Mustang, it also had a wooden aerial. Standard fit I believe, and you can paint them whatever colour you like!

Cheers

Bruce

Originally posted by Snapper
Bloody Poxy Picture Posting.

i had that before. lol

Bloody Poxy Picture Posting.

Originally posted by Snapper
Legends 2002

what’s legends 2002? heheh i missed something?

I know what i am talking in about thanks.
my dads was built in Dallas Texas and then shipped to NZ, it was one of the final 50 P-51D’s ever built.
Big Beautiful Doll has a black arial, never seen that one?
And about what colour yours would be, i was being sarcastic.

Legends 2002

AT6, your refering to your old mans P-51. I’m refering to original USAAF P-51’s. The only black aerials i have seen are when the invasion stripes go right around the fuselage other than that they were natural metal or olive drab. If i had a P-51 then it would be the same as Ken Wagnons, finished as the Cripes A’Mighty that Preddy was killed in. Preddy’s aerial was finished to look like a barbers pole, red and white striped.