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I love the cockpit on this one, the Harvard Mk.II "Gunslinger", from the Reno Air Races package. Despite some modifications over the years, the cockpit remains largely stock to its Harvard lineage - note the instrument panel & surround, the control stick spade grip, the rudder pedals, and the throttle quadrant, all of which are unique to the Harvard. It also still retains the stock AT-6/Harvard rear-view mirror. This aircraft originally entered service with the RCAF in January 1942.











 
Some screenshots from a flight out of Chino, California, and the typical haze, with the Planes of Fame Air Museum's P-51D "Spam Can/Dolly" from the Reno Air Races package. Five of the Mustangs included in the Reno package are based with the Planes of Fame Air Museum at Chino ("Strega" and "Voodoo" static, and the P-51A "Mrs. Virginia", P-51D "Wee Willy II", and P-51D "Spam Can/Dolly" flown regularly). Furthermore, the P-51D's "Bunny" and "Man O' War" are based with the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California, a little flight south of Chino. The P-51D "Lady B", owned by Fred Telling, is based at the Spruce Creek Airport in Daytona Beach, Florida, from where it flies regularly and across the country. The P-51D "Miss America", which also flies regularly throughout the year, is based at the Oklahoma Museum of Flying in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (its owner, Brent Hisey, also has a stock P-51D and P-51C undergoing restoration to fly). The P-51D "Goldfinger" was actually just recently sold, following Reno a couple months back - its previous owner, Mike Brown, sold it to Gary Heck, and the aircraft is now based in Guerneville, California (as its new owner likes stock warbirds, with authentic military paint schemes, I don't think it will be remaining as "Goldfinger" for much longer).

More than half of the Mustangs included in the Reno package aren't racers, but are regular restored/maintained warbirds that have on the occasion participated at Reno to help fill the ranks.

The real-life P-51D that is "Spam Can/Dolly", owned and operated by the Planes of Fame Air Museum at Chino, is unique for having had the longest single civilian ownership, having been purchased by POF founder Ed Maloney, straight from USAF surplus, in 1957. The aircraft is a very late model P-51D, from the Dallas-produced P-51D-30-NT production block, and thus came fitted with the late radio/antenna arrangement which featured the dual-mounted ANA-8 radio antennas on the spine, and the AN-104 VHF antenna moved from the spine to below the lower rear engine cowl (very similar to the setup used by Mustangs of the 506th FG flying from Iwo Jima in 1945). When the antennas were refitted in 2013, after having the Iwo Jima-based 506th FG markings of "Dolly" added, they found that the AN-104 antenna mount on the lower engine cowling wasn't secure enough, and thus they were forced to remove that antenna mast once again.











 
The Planes of Fame Air Museum's extremely rare P-51A Mustang. This is the only true P-51A flying today (the only other P-51A flying has a D-model wing and D-model main fuselage). Originally acquired by Planes of Fame founder Ed Maloney in 1953, it had its first post-restoration test flight in 1981. Since 2006 it has been painted in the markings of "Mrs. Virginia", flown by Maj. Robert Petit of the 1st Air Commando Group based in the China-Burma-India Theatre. The horse marking seen on the fuselage is a leftover from a temporary paint scheme ("movie paint") of an RAF color scheme it wore in 2019 for a documentary (https://www.flickr.com/photos/habujet/50900469506).

Like most of the Mustangs included in the MSFS Reno package, it is a typical restored, maintained, and regularly-flown warbird, not a racer. It did however participate in the 2016 Reno Air Races, where it placed second in the Silver Race, with an average speed of nearly 352 MPH.











 
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I almost bought that one hehe. I liked the G3X with GFC AP in Red Thunder a little better. John, were you able to start yours up? I tried the fuel level in the rear left, then started the saphir , then the engine. I heard the apu running I believe but never got the engine to light off.

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Hmmm I'll have to try the checklist, thanks for the tip. You got the entire pack? I just bought this one paint - I might get a more analogue themed one as well - or a P51.... but at 2-3 planes I'm at the price of the class package. I told myself I'd only buy two max hehe.
 
Yeah, I bought the full pack, as I wanted to have every variant of the P-51 and AT-6 (the numerous variants of the Pitts and L-39s being an extra bonus).

Here are some screenshots from another sortie in the P-51A this afternoon, flying from Chino to nearby French Valley (my last opportunity to do any flight simming until later this week).











 
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