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We want to see pictures of your new track. :)

Looking good, Gert. :text-bravo:

Now for a little history.

There is a G.E. plant just north of Cincinnati right along I-75 that had a P-51 Mustang on display just like the one on your track. One of the owners of the Hamilton, Ohio airport some how got them to sell it to him. It was an H model which is the last one built before the war ended. They had a 2200 hp Rolls Royce engine in them. He got it running and flew airshows around the area for years. I had the privilege of riding along with him to two airshows. He'd practice his routine on the way to the airshow, it's one hell of an airplane. In the late seventies he sold it to the Whittington brothers (Bill and Don). They flew it in the Reno air races. The Whittington brothers were both race car drivers who drive in the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 hours of LeMan. Later on they were both convicted of drug smuggling. You can find all kinds of articles about them on the internet. Last I heard of the airplane it was in the EAA museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/variants/p51h