From Geoff Goodall’s page on the Emu Field Mustangs:

The other five Emu Mustangs were shipped to San Francisco as cargo on board MV Sierra, leaving Port Adelaide on 20 January 1968. They were reportedly damaged on the wharf at San Francisco by anti-Vietnam war protesters after a local newspaper report said they would be used in SE Asia. Stan Booker had in fact on-sold them to Cavalier Aircraft Corporation in Florida, which specialised in civilian executive two seater Mustangs and military upgraded armed models. Their Cavaliers were used by US Army and exported to Indonesia, Bolivia and Salvador. This led to the ultimate Cavalier Enforcer with a Lycoming T55 turboprop, which was taken over by Piper as the PA-48 Piper Enforcer project.

Cavalier Aircraft dismantled the five to airframe sections to be reconditioned for Cavalier’s rebuilding program. Whether parts of the Emu atomic Mustangs were actually used will never be known, but left-over Cavalier parts were later sold on the booming US warbird scene. Certainly CAC panels have been seen on flying North American P-51D warbirds, and there is an ongoing joke that certain parts of certain P-51Ds glow in the dark…

That colour scheme is very smart! It looks like a sharp restoration.

I imagine the Cambridge Geek Con will be a pop culture (comicbooks, video games, collectibles) convention.

My info only comes from what I glean from Facebook, magazines, and forums like this and WIX.

I’m with DragonRapide, the DH.9 is a very exciting prospect!

From New Zealand there’ll likely be Rod Lewis’ Mosquito FB.VI PZ474 and Jerry Yagen’s P-39Q.

Time for me to start a new annual tradition: the FHCAM Stuka! 😀

Stunning photos, Brian! Thank you for sharing.

The aircraft with the legend about Hyderabad: is that a DH.4?

I was once an apprentice aircraft engineer with the company which owned the aircraft in the first video (and my father worked there when I was born), and I can say proudly I’ve worked on that particular aircraft several times! It’s pretty rare I can skite about a personal connection with an aircraft posted on this forum!

Thank you DonClark, when I read that post it took a lot of restraint for me (just a fan and completely unconnected) to not respond. That whole business was about the most unpleasant experience I’ve ever had on this forum.