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Seems i always like the earlier variants of warbirds, aesthetically speaking. Like to me P-51 A's through C's, the razorbacks, i find much more attractive than the bubble D's,,,,same with P-47's. The slimmer nacelles of the earlier variant P-38's i find far more attractive than the later deep nacelles housing larger oil coolers.

 

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A Man Who worked closley with Kelly Johnson was Gordon Hamilton. After the war, Johnson & Hamilton built the first three Lockheed Lodestar executive conversions. Bill Lear & Dee Howard followed suit doing Lockheed Twin exec conversions. Hamilton went full time into converting several type warbirds into fast exec & cargo conversions. His outfit did the cradled wing spar conversion for the On-Mark A-26, pressurized exec conversion.(On-Mark was also building brand new, improved A-26's under Douglas license, for the Military) In late 60's, Hamilton began doing cargo conversions of Beech 18's, pulling the P&W 985 radials & installing P&W PT-6 shaftless turbines.They were called Westwind ll. In 1975 i got a job with Hamilton working on the conversions....low level stuff, painting, rebuilding, modding & beefing the oleo landing gear struts etc. The last plane built was a D-18, streched 9.5 feet, stretch split equally fore & aft of main spar, cabin roof raised 9" & Garret dash 10 turbines installed. This airplane was built for Connie Kalitta & His freight business.
The PT-6 Westwind was a coast to coast plane & did it just 20 min behind the Lear 24. Lear had to make fuel stop.

 

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http://moviephilippines.blogspot.com/2013/07/p-38-lightning-flying-fortress-bombers.html

 

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The moon is always better looking from the isle seat.

 

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‎giant.gfycat.com/TastyAgreeableAnchovy.mp4

 

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Is this a past or current dig?

 

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Those look like pictures of the "lost squadron", six p-38s and two b-17s that go stranded in Greenland in 1942. This p-38 was dug out from under 250 feet of ice in 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Girl