black mamba wrote:
Nice one, Chief.
I seriously doubt you can buy a flyable P-51 for less then 1 million bucks. The best ones sell for a lot more than that. The total number of these planes...either air worthy or can be restored to that status...is slightly more than 100. A nice guy in Jacksonville has one of the best out there and I have been fortunate enough to have been taken up for a ride in it. That was surely the most visceral experience I've ever had in an airplane.
That must have been an incredible experience, Tom! My most memorable experience in an aircraft was a catapult launch from the USS Enterprise. It was in an EA-3B Electronic Warfare A/C so backseat. Not as exciting as an F-14 cat, but still pretty amazing! And I did get a few cats and traps in C-1 and C-2 A/C. Pretty tame, comparatively speaking, but still fun!