How to build a P-38 ? ? ?

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Hans-Marc Olsen wrote:

I want to build a P-38 to shoot some Zeros next year at the
60-year-end-of-WWII celebrations.What do I need for a good P-38 ?

A brain.

LOL! that and a pile of time and money.
Bob

"Dave Hyde" wrote in message
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What do I need for a good P-38 ?

It's really a lot simpler than the rest of the folks in
RAH would have you believe:

1) Take a couple of big chunks of aluminum and steel.
2) Stick 'em together
3) Mill away everything that doesn't look like a P-38
4) Stick on a few bits of rubber and bakelite
5) Go flying

Dave '1-2-3' Hyde



Or you could build it from plastic - just carve the outline of a P38 into a
mould, fill the mould with plastic, add acouple of engines and the guns and
fire away!

Andy

actually I think It's Dave 1-2-3-4-5 Hyde................
Sean "Lameshot" Trost

Dave Hyde wrote:
What do I need for a good P-38 ?


It's really a lot simpler than the rest of the folks in
RAH would have you believe:

1) Take a couple of big chunks of aluminum and steel.
2) Stick 'em together
3) Mill away everything that doesn't look like a P-38
4) Stick on a few bits of rubber and bakelite
5) Go flying

Dave '1-2-3' Hyde

earlier, (B2431) wrote:

That would be Glacier Girl. The rest of them are crushed.

It's more pleasant to just say that they're undergoing hardware compression...

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com

From: (Bob Kuykendall)
Date: 11/19/2004 19:11 Central Standard Time
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earlier, (B2431) wrote:

That would be Glacier Girl. The rest of them are crushed.

It's more pleasant to just say that they're undergoing hardware
compression...

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com

Along those lines "no outlet" is more pleasant than "dead end."

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

As I recall it was the C-47 that they found crushed. Not as tough as a
fighter.

Only one has been removed so far, One of the last comments by one of the
orig. savlage crew on the History?? channel special about Glacier Girl was
that there were 6? more up there if they wanted to restore another one.

Hugh



"B2431" wrote in message
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From: (G EddieA95)
Date: 11/18/2004 16:29 Central Standard Time
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Several restorable [P38s] in Greenland in cold storage.

Hugh


Removed years ago, IIRC, ISTS.

That would be Glacier Girl. The rest of them are crushed.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:41:30 -0600, "Hugh Prescott"
wrote:

As I recall it was the C-47 that they found crushed. Not as tough as a
fighter.

Only one has been removed so far, One of the last comments by one of the
orig. savlage crew on the History?? channel special about Glacier Girl was
that there were 6? more up there if they wanted to restore another one.

Hugh

Wasn't a C-47 Hugh, no need to go looking for those things, they are
still plying their trade in various areas around the globe, including
Nantuckett. What landed on the ice with the P-38's was a B-17,
possibly an E model but I'm not sure of that detail. Just looked at
the website, the original flight occured in July of 1942 so the B-17
was very likely a model E, which would make it very rare.

Not sure the rest of the P-38's are any more crushed than the one that
was brought up and restored.

Corky Scott

(Hans-Marc Olsen) wrote in
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I want to build a P-38 to shoot some Zeros next year at the
60-year-end-of-WWII celebrations.What do I need for a good P-38 ?

Get this guy to sell you plans for his airplane. He operates out of
Livermore Municipal in California.

http://www.bd5.com/expo27.jpg
http://www.bd5.com/expo28.jpg

It's 55% scale and uses Suzuki car engines, two of them.

You may now begin to salivate.

From: Juan Jimenez
Date: 11/25/2004 10:22 Central Standard Time
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You may now begin to salivate.

Not everyone has your nasty habits.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Get over it, dannyboy....

"B2431" wrote in message
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From: Juan Jimenez
Date: 11/25/2004 10:22 Central Standard Time
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You may now begin to salivate.

Not everyone has your nasty habits.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired