---------------------------------------------------------- FEWMustang-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Fri 09/12/03: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:20 PM - Re: FEW (PolymerDesign@aol.com) 2. 06:08 PM - Re: FEW (Melvinke@aol.com) 3. 06:22 PM - Re: FEW (HMS23TURBO@aol.com) 4. 07:32 PM - Re: FEW (Melvinke@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:20:14 PM PST US From: PolymerDesign@aol.com Subject: Re: FEWMustang-List: FEW --> FEWMustang-List message posted by: PolymerDesign@aol.com Just to get my two cents in. Jerry Frey from RFA flew successful his P-51 around here for 3-4 yrs. and he also had the cross tube support installed in his plane. It made it much easier to push in and out of the hanger. One hand on the rod and the other on the stab. Worked real well. Lastly NA did install that tube mainly for crating to go over on ships. I have pictures that show fuses in crates. Question. I'm using Usher fuel caps and adaptors. The adaptor protudes about 3/8" beyond inner skin. Should this be floxed radius or is there another adaptor that slides over the inside? ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:08:07 PM PST US From: Melvinke@aol.com Subject: Re: FEWMustang-List: FEW --> FEWMustang-List message posted by: Melvinke@aol.com The tube through the fuselage may have been used for a variety of functions, but the primary one was the elevation and fixing of the fuselage while boresighting the guns. I know, because I flew them and watched the procedure. Ken Melvin, N51KX. ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 06:22:20 PM PST US From: HMS23TURBO@aol.com Subject: Re: FEWMustang-List: FEW --> FEWMustang-List message posted by: HMS23TURBO@aol.com Ken, With your "real" Mustang experience, I look forward to having you fly the prototype TF and give us all your opinion! Maybe we could get a magazine article written around the occasion. (I hope it won't be compared to riding a "Shetland Pony" as one of my T-28 buddies has a habit of joking to me. Come to think of it, he doesn't fly his "real warbird" much anymore due to the price of fuel these days) Ed ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 07:32:55 PM PST US From: Melvinke@aol.com Subject: Re: FEWMustang-List: FEW --> FEWMustang-List message posted by: Melvinke@aol.com I would dearly love to fly the prototype when it is ready, and I am sure that the Portland contingent will fly down to Camarillo to share in the fun! A good article in the aviation press, with in-flight photos of two or three FEW Mustangs in formation, and a show and tell account of your PSRU, should get things moving again. All of which raises the question of insurance. How have those who are flying FEW P51's currently managed to obtain coverage, and at what cost? Your tiedown mod is important, particularly in light of Dennis Turner's setback when he tipped his TF on its nose during a full power run-up. Ken Melvin (N51KX)