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Future P-51 Pilot
I will fly a P-51 Mustang 2017-03-26 01:47:46 Post No. 33426358
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Hello /k/.
I want to fly a P-51 mustang.
If I devoted my life to learning the controls exclusive to the P-51, by all means necessary, I could do it.
I know for sure that P-51s are relatively avalible to the public. Hell, you can even BUY THEM.
>http://www.platinumfighters.com/p-51d-n38227
>http://www.platinumfighters.com/n51tc
>http://www.platinumfighters.com/n51hr
If these sunnuvabitches are for SALE (for millions of dollars) I don't think simply wanting to fly one, once, is too much of an outlandish request.
I have tons and tons of resources to learn from. I could pick up handbooks, manuals, talk to veterans in the air force, read online. I could 100% learn all I needed to know to fly one. There is nothing preventing me from doing anything necessary. At some point in my life, I could actually fly or even OWN a P-51.
Need more reasoning? How about the fact that P-51s are still being flown? They're not being flown by veterans from WWII, they're flown by experienced pilots. Most of which are probably civilian. What I'm trying to say is that, yes, I could very well work my way up to being cleared to fly a P-51. It's totally possible and within reach, as long as I work really, really hard to get 5 or 4 million dollars. I could convince investors to loan me sums of money and pay them back via airshow fundraising.
It could happen. It WILL happen. I will be flying a P-51 mustang, one way or another, soon.
Prove me wrong.
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>>33426358
As a followup I am 26 years old and currently in training to be a pilot, so age range/experience isn't much of an issue. My grandfather flew in a Whitworth Whitley in WWII so I have military background.
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>>33426358
Here's a (you) from the awesome PBY sex yacht thread, anon
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>>33426586
thanks... nobody cares about my awesome post here on /k/.
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>>33426632
We all have to have a goal, it's cool you have yours so mapped out. Have you seen that British series about plane restoration on Netflix? The P-51 episode is bretty cool.
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>>33426668
Why, thank you! I did in fact see that episode and rewatch it a lot for information on the innards and technical bits of the P-51.
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>>33426378
Grandfather was in war so i have a military background?
I haven't even researched this but, I know for ferraris lambo's vettes you can just rent them, even for like an hour at a race track.
I have no reason to assume that there isn't a service out there that. For anywhere between 300 and 5,000 bucks will train you specifically on that plane within a month or less.
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>>33426358
I have also seen planes go for bretty cheap on the web.
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>>33426692
You can probably do this in Vegas. You can rent anything hourly in Vegas...
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>>33426692
>>33426717
I have looked into that and no, there is not a service that lets you do that because most of the P-51s currently out there are privately owned or belong to a museum for historical preservation. And by grandfather = military background I mean that I could potentially use the fact that I have family who was a WWII airman as a standpoint or reasoning when dealing with P-51 training.
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>>33426358
Would you let some one of off the street be entrusted with a nearly 2M asset?
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>>33426896
Not OP, but if they pay enough, sure.
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>>33426933
(OP)
http://www.theonion.com/article/blue-angels-hold-first-ever-open-tryouts-2610
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>>33426358
>Prove me wrong.
I'm an Anti-Aircraft Artilleryman
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>>33426692
wouldn't doubt the renting bit in the slightest, i mean ffs you can drive a tank if you want.
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http://www.stallion51.com/index.shtml
Save your money, get cozy with these guys.
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>>33431319
Specifically, it looks like $3300 gets you one hour.
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>>33426358
The collings foundation has a 2 seat trainer mustang they will let you fly if you have a license. They also have a 2 seat 262 replica they built from German blueprints they will also let you fly. I rode in their b17 for my 16th birthday, shit was cash. The mustang escorted the b17 and the b24 flying with us
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