Risky Business Question

[Leo]

While looking through the Pima Air Museum site I noticed a couple of pictures in their P-51 restoration section that showed a lower cowl section with "Risky Business" painted on it. They refer to it as parts salvaged from other aircraft.
Just for curiousities sake, anyone know who, what, when, why?

[Hawker Driver]

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Did they ever sell Risky Business??

[Shawn Aro]

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i herd they didnt have a engine for it was sitting in the hanger ? Shawn

[t-dub]

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i herd they didnt have a engine for it was sitting in the hanger ? Shawn

I thought i remembered hearing the same thing, but i wasn't sure..........

[Leo]

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Just found it interesting that particular panel would find it's way there.

[Race 29]

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Was "Risky Business" painted on the lower cowl? I thought it was painted above the stacks, but I could be thinking of Cloud Dancer.

Race 29

[t-dub]

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Below the stacks.........

[wingman]

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Those panels in the Pima site certainly do appear to be from the Racer. All the cowling pieces take a huge beating in daily use, and considering how many Merlins Risky ate over the years these things were off and on an awful lot! I suspect that Rhino replaced them with new pieces as part of the restoration process, and that the old panels ended up in Tucson...

Neal

[Shawn Aro]

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in one of the pictures taken on Feb 5 2009 that they salvage parts from the engine cowling from another air craft. Shawn