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Offline Nypsy

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P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« on: October 20, 2014, 06:26:28 AM »
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-p-51-mustang-restoration-includes-operational-50c-1647964258/1648063530/+Kyosuke

Pretty cool.
We make the head space gages for the M2 where I work and sell them to General Dynamics who has the contract for refurbishing all the M2's in U.S. service.
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Offline SilverZ06

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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2014, 08:09:30 AM »
That is pretty cool.  I am honestly surprised they are allowing a private aircraft to be fitted with working guns.
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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2014, 09:05:05 AM »
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Offline Gman

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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2014, 10:48:20 AM »
It's not the first that has had live 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJ82YCiuYU
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Offline Nypsy

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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2014, 11:04:39 AM »
Quote from: Gman on October 20, 2014, 10:48:20 AM
It's not the first that has had live 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJ82YCiuYU

I believe they are the same plane??
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Offline SilverZ06

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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2014, 11:17:27 AM »
Quote from: Nypsy on October 20, 2014, 11:04:39 AM
I believe they are the same plane??
you believe correctly.
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2014, 12:08:57 PM »
Nasty history though, a pilot killed crashing it.
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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2014, 12:26:54 PM »
Quote from: SilverZ06 on October 20, 2014, 08:09:30 AM
That is pretty cool.  I am honestly surprised they are allowing a private aircraft to be fitted with working guns.

I am surprised but not upset or worried....

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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2014, 12:32:31 PM »
Why would someone with a class 3 FFL NOT be allowed to do this?
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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2014, 12:32:56 PM »
Saw this on the website. quoted from an EAA article,
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But the guns you see here in Twilight Tear's wings are not the real ones. ATF rules are much stricter once the airplane leaves the ground. So studmuffinen has aluminum replica Brownings installed in the wings, and the real .50 calibers stayed home in Minnesota under lock and key.

lol! the BBS changed the guys name to studmuffinen.  :lol :lol
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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2014, 02:02:19 PM »
Quote from: Rob52240 on October 20, 2014, 12:32:31 PM
Why would someone with a class 3 FFL NOT be allowed to do this?

Exactly.
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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2014, 02:16:59 PM »
Quote from: Rob52240 on October 20, 2014, 12:32:31 PM
Why would someone with a class 3 FFL NOT be allowed to do this?

well if he had fully functional mgs on all the time something like this could happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodoCA80V1g



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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2014, 04:08:46 PM »
Quote from: guncrasher on October 20, 2014, 02:16:59 PM
well if he had fully functional mgs on all the time something like this could happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodoCA80V1g



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ANG would shoot him down im sure.
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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2014, 04:41:09 PM »
any 109s with taters?
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Re: P-51 restoration includes operational .50 cals
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2014, 05:09:08 PM »
Semp, as an o/t, a friend of mine, Dave DeHann (Dave Youngblood that owns DYE Paintball products) was the officer who stopped this guy in the tank finally.  He was a reserve officer with San Diego PD, and he and his training officer were the guys that climbed up on the tank when it got stuck.  Coincidentally, Dave is an owner and flier of Warbird aircraft.
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