The Original Miss Ashley...

[AAFO_WSagar]

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Home Depot is my friend

Who Hoo!! I remember working with a race crew during the slam to get it done for September... actually, for a ferry flight but, I digress.. fittings did not come in time, many trips were made to "Home Depot Aviation Department".....

Don't envy you the move, but do envy the end result! Beautiful home! Bet you can't wait to dig your toes into the new carpet and spread out and RELAX!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS on the pin pulling my friend!!!!!!




Wayner

[t-dub]

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They didn't give it the red paint job until Gary purchased it in 1985, shortly before he went to summer camp.

It raced in 1984 in gray primer while Sandberg still owned it.

When John owned it he used the plane as the test bed for the single stage merlins for Tsunami. It carried the name "Tipsy Too",was silver with blue trim, and was race #28. After selling the plane to Gary in 1985, John brought another p-51 to Reno called "Platinum Plus". That plane was highly polished with red and black trim. What an absolutely gorgeous airplane!!! It was "custom built" for John by Fighter Rebuilders in Chino Ca., and also carried race #28.(Johns alcohol injected aircobra in the 70's was named "Tipsy Miss", carried the race #28, and was also painted orange like the last version of Tsunami.) What colorful people both John and Gary were! They are deeply missed....

[t-dub]

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Here's a shot from 1991. What interesting about this shot is that if you notice in the background, the white, silver, and red Lancair is Dave Morss' racer that he had the catastrophic prop failure in! This shot was taken right before that incident occured to Dave. If you've never seen the in-cockpit video of that flight, you've gotta check it out! Go to www.davemorss.com or just copy and paste this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0txEC0Rhdg

[BKB]

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The way they finished Platimun Plus.Awesome!
Probably my favorite "stocker".

Brian

[Shawn Aro]

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enjoy pic by my dad Shawn

[t-dub]

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I'd sure like to see either an aircobra or a kingcobra fly the pylons today!

[t-dub]

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enjoy pic by my dad Shawn

Cool shot Shawn. I mistakenly called "Tipsy Miss" an aircobra, when in fact it looks like a kingcobra! My bad.....

[ssgfx]

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ALL of you people are brilliant...thanks SO much for the photos...I'll post pics of the model when it's complete.