Maybe this will clear up the confusion. It was a Thunder Mustang Kit built plane somewhat smaller than an actual P-51.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xz054-ZrxY

You’re wrong…;)

A few years back some local white power skinhead type firebombed the local gay bar. The cops arrest the guy & go to his house to search for evidence etc… When they get there they discover the garage is crammed full of mills, lathes, drill presses, sheet metal brakes, slip rollers & all manner of other industrial tools… & it all has USAF & Govt tags… FBI get involved…
Turned out the firebomber lived with his dad…. who was comptroller at the main machine shop on Edwards AFB. He had been stealing & selling this stuff for years.
Dad got a longer jail sentence than the son…

Man oh man, those guys had some big as$ed lunchboxes. 😮

I’ve heard of issues concerning P51 stuff & Boeing who now hold the intellectual rights to NAA through Rockwell or somesuch BS, but I can’t tell you what the issues are.

In March, it merged with Rockwell-Standard, and the merged company became known as North American Rockwell. The company changed its name again to Rockwell International and named its aircraft division North American Aircraft Operations in 1973.[6]

Rockwell International’s defense and space divisions (including the North American Aviation divisions Autonetics and Rocketdyne) were sold to Boeing in December 1996. Initially called Boeing North American, these groups were integrated with Boeing’s Defense division. Rocketdyne was eventually sold by Boeing to UTC Pratt & Whitney in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aviation

We have a current FAA Production Certificate and all the original North American data and tools. (according to Alan Harris a representative for Saberliner.)

http://www.aerofiles.com/noram-co.html

I’ve cleaned-up and posted a wide variety of b&w Canberra photos on:

http://www.derbosoft.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=furtherafield&action=display&thread=10617

May help, but I fancy colour ones would be more useful. There must be a number of Canberra sites on the web and numerous photos too on a google of the registration.

Does this help?

http://tinyurl.com/awm7ym9

Bob Hoover of course. As Jimmy Doolittle once said about Robert A. “Bob” Hoover, the “greatest stick-and-rudder pilot who ever lived.” Had the pleasure of meeting him in California when we got checked out in our Turbo Aero Commander 690B many years ago. He could make his Shrike Commander do a jig on the runway and pour a glass of tea while doing a roll.

http://www.flixxy.com/bob-hoover-flying-ace.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PftNh_SShlg

Anon, Farallon, Panama is a long way from the US. Mainland. The Rio Hato Airport near Farallon is on the coast and was built by the US Armed Forces in 1942. It was then Rio Hato Army Air Base with the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force based there. From what I can find, the Sixth Air Force were using the P-36 Hawk in defense of the Panama Canal. At that time they were using the Curtiss Electric constant speed propeller. Later versions were equipped with the Hamilton Standard Hydromatic Prop. I’d say now that you are looking at a Curtiss Electric constant speed propeller from a P-36 that ditched short of the runway in the ocean or lost power on take off. YMMV

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/URG/images/p36-1.jpg

Not saying this is the aircraft but this shows that they were used in Rio Hato, Panama.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=102544

That should get it dug this spring..

Ha!, fat chance of that, 400K in debt and their major contributor is still finding camels in the clouds over there.