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  1. Spasso

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    #326 Spasso, Nov 1, 2005
    Yeah yeah, DB601!!! Not MB 601.

    Foggy brain!
     
  2. sparky p-51

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    #327 sparky p-51, Nov 1, 2005
    AGE.....not fog..............
     
  3. Spasso

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    #328 Spasso, Nov 1, 2005
    Is THAT what it is. I just hit the big nickel last week and I am going down fast.
     
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    #329 sparky p-51, Nov 1, 2005
    Four bits is a cake walk...you still have about 7...maybe 8 years before things start going to hell. Lets see, in that time you would have had a few more Ferraris....512tr, 512bbi, silver 550....perhaps more.
     
  5. Spasso

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    #330 Spasso, Nov 2, 2005
    I need to pay for this years' bad habits first. I am still set on getting a TR of some sort in the next few years though..................Priorities man!!

    I'd even settle for an early single mirror......................
     
  6. Horsefly

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    #331 Horsefly, Nov 2, 2005
    And back to the B-17 topic, Friday's B-17 photos must have been a premonition for me. While I was walking through a local flea market this weekend, I spotted an original Boeing B-17G field service manual for sale. It was issued in 1945 and was in very good condition. About 2 inches thick, it covers nearly everything one would need to know about field maintenance and combat repairs. Lots of diagrams and a nice raised emblem on the front cover. I couldn't pass it up for $55.
     
  7. sparky p-51

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    #332 sparky p-51, Nov 2, 2005
    Hellofa find I'd say. Cheaper than a tank of gas and a Boeing book to boot. Now if you could only find a reg size B-17 at the the flea market youd really be on top of the heap.
     
  8. Horsefly

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    #333 Horsefly, Nov 2, 2005
    I already have a B-17 resto project. On March 12, 1943, a B-17 crashed beside a dirt road near Benton, Arkansas while on a training mission. Nine of the crew were killed. (Don't know if 10 were aboard or not.) The location is marked with a monument. Back about 1970, we went out there and looked around in the dirt for any bits and pieces. I found a small metal control cable lever, a headphone plug, and a link from a machine gun belt.
    I think that I can use those as a basis for a total restoration. Just add some aluminum sheets and a few rivets.
     
  9. Bob Parks

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    #334 Bob Parks, Nov 2, 2005
    Good for you , Horsefly ! Those manuals are few and far between in good shape. I have one and also the manuals for the Allison V-12, R1820, and the R1830. I treasure my B-17 maintenance and erection manual and the structural repair manual so if you get some more parts to that crashed B-17 maybe we can build one.
    That old airplane was a monsterous basket weaving project. Made out of aluminum but built like a wooden airplane with truss spars and wing ribs but it was stong and beautiful.
     
  10. sparky p-51

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    #335 sparky p-51, Nov 2, 2005
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    Heres some strong and beautiful for you Bob. Reno ramp just before start up for sundays gold race. Somewhere between 10 & 12 thousand horsepower.
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  11. Spasso

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    #336 Spasso, Nov 2, 2005
    Holy cow! What a great shot!
     
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    #337 Bob Parks, Nov 2, 2005
    man ! What a great picture! I notice the change in Rare Bear's prop and spinner. Did they dump the huge 3 blader from the Orion set up ? The photos that you post are absolutely marvelous and I know that Spasso and I love them.
     
  13. sparky p-51

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    #338 sparky p-51, Nov 3, 2005
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    Seems to me that the Bear went round and round in 04 with the old set up that you see here. A lot of conjecture about the efficiency of this unit as compared to the three bladed thumper. Pix are indeed great...not mine obviously but the creative work of mustangsmustangs.com daddy Curt Fowles of Hollister,Ca. He has pix and histories of every surviving P-51 in the world on his site. I'l be posting several more of his Reno 05 works in the next few weeks. You guys need to stop all this airplane chat and get back to F Chat.........Ha. Yet another pix Sparknot with Jelly Belly Bikes. All of Arlin Ness's creations.
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    #340 sparky p-51, Nov 3, 2005
    Yea...The Anchovy Special.
     
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    Last picture, Macchi 202
     
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    #343 Spasso, Nov 3, 2005
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    Macchi-Castoli , in 1933, the fastest piston powered SEAPLANE on record, STILL holds the record. Mmmmmmmmm, it looks like Ferrari red...........

    Wonder how long it takes to change 48 sparkplugs on that thing.
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    #344 sparky p-51, Nov 3, 2005
    Its a proven air race secret for fast plug changes....swab on copious amounts of Anchovy Brand 10w40 multi lube to the threads and screw in quickly. Watch out for that first start up....foul smelling.
     
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    #345 Spasso, Nov 3, 2005
    "Anchovy Anti-seize"
     
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    #346 sparky p-51, Nov 3, 2005
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    Heres a cool pix. Steve Hinton piloting the T-33 start jet skimming around the pylons with Phil Wallick in the back seat taking mustangsmustangs.com daddys Curt Fowles pix while he(Wallick) was being captured in by Curts cam at the pylon. Need to put anchovy oil in the smoke system of the start jet....make everyone want pizza....or make them puke.
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    #347 Spasso, Nov 3, 2005
    Great shot! Can you tell me what the question mark means that appears on the air inlet?

    I think a bucket of pepperoni in the intakes of that jet would get them hungry.
     
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    #348 sparky p-51, Nov 3, 2005
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    Mark was one of the later bunch of 'Chino Kids' who was a volunteer for just about any job that may be handed out by the Hintons at the Planes of Fame Museum or Fighter Rebuilders. Showed up as a back-seater in the T-33 for many years and became one of our 5 pit bunch. He was flying his Variease from Palm Springs to Chino and it broke up in rough air. Seems to me it was in Oct 99 right after the races. Pix is John Hinton, Steve Hinton, my youngest daughter Allison, John Curtiss Paul and Mark on wing. All of our airplanes carry that black question mark. Drive Ferraris...hell of a lot safer than flying.
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  24. Spasso

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    #349 Spasso, Nov 3, 2005
    The question mark reminds me of the famous and now dead custom bike builder Indian Larry (NY) who used it as his own trademark on many bikes to mean his own take on "The Mystery of Life".


    Tragic about Mark.
     
  25. sparky p-51

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    #350 sparky p-51, Nov 3, 2005
    Have seen Indian Larry several times on the biker shows. Rather a colorful character and quite the craftsman or artist in the realm of bike builders. By the way, that whop float plane with the counter-rotating props is pretty slick.Have never seen it before....just when I thought I had seen just about everything. Was reading another thread and saw your dad is sneaking up on 80? Wow. Must be nice to have him around this long.
     
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