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A few shots from Tuesday's EAA

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Nice shots Robert. Keep up the good snapping......(would you know anything about the FW-190? Is it a repro or the real thing? Who currently owns it,...etc., etc.)
 
It was a great day, perfect weather, 80F, clear, low humidity, nice breeze. I planned to go today as well, but that crapped out. Rain. That Folke-Wulf I believe is a reproduction. Great time.
 
Great shots. I hope someone from A2A notices the CORRECT alignment of the Piper nameplate on the J3 boot cowl.
 
Had not noticed the nameplate on the J3 before. This was the cleanest Cub I have ever seen. The tag said it was built in 1946, looked like it just came off the line.
 
Beautiful photos, Robert, thank you very much for sharing them - looking forward to more, if you are so inclined! The '190 is one of the 20 Flugwerk-produced replicas, this example being owned by the Frasca family (made famous/fortune by the full-cockpit Frasca International flight simulators). The FW 190 is one of four warbirds they have at Oshkosh this year (Spitfire Mk.XVIII, FM-2 Wildcat, P-40 Warhawk)! Although the Flugwerk examples were produced for mounting an Ash-82 engine, this example was re-engineered here in the states, by the folks who built it from the kit-assemblies, and it has an R-2800 powering it. The work was done out at Chino, CA, and the aircraft has been on display out at the Planes of Fame Museum at Chino for the last year, but its home with the rest of the Frasca collection is in Illinois.

I can't get out to the show until Saturday, but I can't wait!
 
Don,

Jack Roush, who owns the P-51B "Old Crow", is very, very close friends with Bud Anderson. The whitewall tires on the original "Old Crow" were applied out of the interest of one of the maintenance crew, and Bud actually never liked them. Since Bud didn't like them, Roush decided not to have them depicted. Also, they both liked having the aircraft portrayed as the original was, before the application of the invasion stripes, as the aircraft's fine lines stand out better without the invasion stripes applied.

The aircraft is a bit of a 'hodge podge'. The original P-51B/C's had fabric elevators, though the restored example has D-model metal examples. The dorsal fin fillet that is fitted to the aircraft is not correct for the fillets fitted to P-51B/C's (and the original Old Crow never had one fitted at all - Jack Roush decided to have one fitted, so that the aircraft had some more yaw stability). And the Malcolm hood canopy, is not an original, rather it is one that was engineered to resemble an original, built around a P-51D canopy crank assembly (if you look at the Malcolm hood on the restored P-51B "Impatient Virgin", that is exactly what an original Malcolm hood was, as well as the dorsal fin fillet on that restoration).
 
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