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It never ceases to amaze me how well these old planes "clean up", so to speak. Find some rusted, rotted piece of airframe somewhere in a Belarus haystack, give it to a group of enthusiastic volunteers, and KA-BLAMMO, it's fresh out of the factory. Sweet![&o]

and worth upwards of 30million dollars from what i'm told

Very enjoyable photographs - many thanks!
 
I can well understand your sense of anticipation of seeing an I-16.  I've always understood 'Rata' to be the name applied to to it by its enemies on the Nationalist side, even though the name seems to have stuck better than 'Mosca' (the fly), as used by its Republican owners.

I always did like the Hurricane better than the Spitfire. And the I-16. I have shot down possibly hundreds of those from my IL-2 days.

One of my favorate perodicls is Aircraft Illustrated, which is hard to find hear, but I ushaly just order a few ever few months and catch up, it covers a wide aray of aircraft related topics including existing warbirds, their condation, owner transfers, restoration prodjects,,ext...

What always amases me is just how world wide the love of clasic warbirs is, their are places all over the world restoring these machines, recovery efforts go on gloably, expadations to seak out and recover clasic aircraft, every year their are more and more out their. One day, it would be fun to travel to Cape Town and at least watch the Lightings fly about.

Companys also exist that produce New Clasiscs, in full scale, In germany theirs a company Building FW 190's (Even a D-9), In Washington State the noted Me-262 is being built, In New Zeland a Company builds P-40's from parts and makes what they nead from scratch, Their are other planes being built as well...

Next.....da Mustang. Like Spock, born of two planets, er, countries.

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Place in history: The P-51 Mustang is arguably the fighter that won the air war in Europe, providing long-range escorts that enabled American heavy bombers to carry the air war into the heart of Germany. In 1939, the British Purchasing Agency approached North American Aviation in desperate need of additional aircraft for the war in Europe. Just 117 days later, the first P-51 made its maiden flight. The aircraft's laminar wing design was innovative, greatly reducing turbulent airflow across the wing and overall drag. In 1942, the P-51 was fitted with the British Rolls-Royce Merlin engine and large external fuel tanks that could be jettisoned when empty. With this powerful new engine and extended range, the P-51 quickly became one of the best-known and most feared fighters in the world.

This aircraft: This P-51 is a combat veteran that was delivered to the United States Army Air Force on January 26, 1945. It was based in Raydon, England with the 8th Army Air Force (352nd Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group), where it was assigned to Lt. Harrison B."Bud" Tordoff. Tordoff flew the aircraft in support of the daylight bombing raids against Germany throughout occupied Europe and in support of missions for the Allied ground forces during the liberation of mainland Europe.

In the summer of 2003, Captain Tordoff was reunited with this plane at the Flying Heritage Collection—the first time he had seen it since ceasefire.

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