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Offline rpm

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Goodbye White Lightnin'
« on: August 25, 2008, 02:02:02 AM »
The P-38 Flying Bull (formerly known as White Lightnin') is about to leave the US for it's new home at the Red Bull Air Museum in Salzburg, Austria. It has just finished a complete restoration at
Ezell Aviation in Breckenridge, Texas. They did a beautiful job including a complete new skin. The plane had crash landeded into a Mississippi cotton field in 2001.

Great story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. It will take the 7,500 mile flight from Breckenridge, Texas to Salzburg, Austria this week.
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2008, 08:13:16 AM »
Quote from: rpm on August 25, 2008, 02:02:02 AM
The P-38 Flying Bull (formerly known as White Lightnin') is about to leave the US for it's new home at the Red Bull Air Museum in Salzburg, Austria. It has just finished a complete restoration at
Ezell Aviation in Breckenridge, Texas. They did a beautiful job including a complete new skin. The plane had crash landeded into a Mississippi cotton field in 2001.

Great story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. It will take the 7,500 mile flight from Breckenridge, Texas to Salzburg, Austria this week.
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wait??!! they're putting her in a MUSEUM???

i thought they were going to keep her flying after the restoration?
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2008, 08:26:56 AM »
I take it you don't care for the Smithsonian Air & Space then?
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2008, 08:29:37 AM »
Quote from: DiabloTX on August 25, 2008, 08:26:56 AM
I take it you don't care for the Smithsonian Air & Space then?

i do, but i also think that these beautiful machines should be kept in the air.


it's like you spening thousands to restore your 69 rs z28, which is one of 200 or so built that way, and then keeping it in the garage, and only trailering it to the shows.
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Offline Grayeagle

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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2008, 09:41:52 AM »
End of an era .. I will never forget the classic music playin while that beautiful aircraft carved up the sky above.

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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2008, 09:48:01 AM »
     It looks almost like the YP-38 now.
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2008, 01:28:08 PM »
It's a shame it's going overseas.  :(
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2008, 01:30:23 PM »
  :huh  thats not right  :cry   making her a hanger queen    "just aint right pa"  :(
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Offline Slash27

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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2008, 02:04:17 PM »
Hate to see her go but I am glad that tornando didnt take her earlier this year.
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2008, 02:25:22 PM »
Seriously who cares, it's just a p-38... it's not like it's something decent like a spit or a 190.
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2008, 02:40:45 PM »
Quote from: Vulcan on August 25, 2008, 02:25:22 PM
Seriously who cares, it's just a p-38... it's not like it's something decent like a spit or a 190.
Can I shoot you in the foot, please?
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2008, 02:40:50 PM »
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Seriously who cares, it's just a p-38... it's not like it's something decent like a spit or a 190.

 :uhoh Sacrilege,  :t  

Don't worry the P38 won't be grounded. The Red Bull museum flies their aircraft and travel around Europe to airshows. They've already put the Lightning on the website.

http://www.flyingbulls.at/start_skiped_e.html

Maybe, I'll be lucky to see it sometime soon.
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2008, 02:41:22 PM »
Quote from: Vulcan on August 25, 2008, 02:25:22 PM
Seriously who cares, it's just a p-38... it's not like it's something decent like a spit or a 190.
Right, it's a more complex and expensive aircraft
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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2008, 03:42:34 PM »
wow that was quick :D

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Re: Goodbye White Lightnin'
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2008, 06:42:43 PM »
Quote from: CAP1 on August 25, 2008, 08:29:37 AM
i do, but i also think that these beautiful machines should be kept in the air.


it's like you spening thousands to restore your 69 rs z28, which is one of 200 or so built that way, and then keeping it in the garage, and only trailering it to the shows.

And what's wrong with that?  It's my car, I'll do as I chose, not what you want.  If they choose to put it in a museum, more power to them.
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