I’m 99.9% sure I just saw an F104 go blasting out of AF Plant42. No idea who the hell it was or where it came from.:eek: :confused:

What’s the interior like? I’ve heard it looks nothing like a stock mustang. Leather interior and the works.

The former Montana Miss? A complete PITA to work on.:( For starters they clearcoated the paint so everytime ya remove or open a hatch etc it cracks & peels off. Then the previous owner was in the construction business so the Merlin is painted JCB orange.:eek:
Put extra tanks in the gun bays & it took damn near THREE DAYS to remove all the extraneous crap from the cockpit so I could get the floorboards up & swap out the fittings on the fuel guages(& refit it all), this is normally a 20-30 minute job. Every bloody panel has foam backed leather on it & have been made larger to reduce gaps. Half the screws had stripped heads & the only that weren’t stripped were only like that because they were completely inaccessible…Thats why everything had to come out to get the floorboards up….

…actually thats a slight exageration, I didn’t remove the rudder……;)

Maybe I can clear this up in a couple of days.
Pete Regina at Van Nuys does the Annuals on Toms P51. He is also Steven Craigs *go to guy* when it comes to warbirds. I’ve worked with Pete on Toms P51 & Stevens Staggerwing & Wildcat…
Just called & left a msg on Petes answering machine at the hangar… stay tuned…

Comedy moment:
First worked on Toms P51 when he had just bought it. Pete flew it over the VanNuys from SM & a few days later when it was returned to Toms hangar it had a “MAVERICK” decal on the canopy rail…. dunno how that got there..;)
It was removed at Toms hangar by the guy who looks after his jets…

Oddly enough, the same thing happened the following 2 or 3 times it came over to Van Nuys….:cool:

Some of you may recognise therefore who my avatar is of 😉

Speaking like Yoda, today, we will be…

or are you Welsh?:confused:

😀 😀 😀 😀

This:

No idea what that eggbeater is behind it tho…

If you throttle way back you can get as much as 5mpg. The term around SoCal for this method of operation is “jew cruise”:D

why if they are so good have they not got lottery support for their projects or have aircraft flying . simple they are not as clever as they make out.

So you think other restorers are a bunch of thicko’s because they didn’t get the Govt to give them 5.3 million?
Congratulations. The Vulcan will NEVER see another cent from me after the complete ******** posted *EDIT*