Recent content by warbirdlover

Agree. The plane maintenance cost would be huge.

Mine runs and with all the enhancements over the years it's still a great sim. Try running with the last disk in.

My investment beats yours https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/ever-wanted-own-p-51-mustang-now-you-can-4-million-174449

That would be worth over a million dollars now.

My FIL said that at the end of the war the P-38 pilots were all offered a brand-new P-38 for $2000. That was a lot of money back then.

Best we can do is the Oshkosh AirVenture air show every summer.

This is one of the planes I made for CFS2, the Westland Whirlwind. Very strange plane. https://www.angelfire.com/falcon/tcwdt/whirlwind.html

I used to design aircraft for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (CFS2) and a friend (one of the best designers) made a P38 series painted like my FIL's. https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/resources/aw-p-38l.27786/

My father-in-law flew P-38s in the Pacific for the 67th fighter squadron of the 347th fighter group. Lots of stories. I'll just post the link to his website. And hi to all. https://warbirdlover.tripod.com/index.htm...