[Dashing Dasher]

Rolls Royce, Dude!

Don't you know your Hurricane Trivia?

You need to come to Reno next year and learn your WW2 Aviation History.

I heard yesterday that the guy who owns the Bf109 that has been hitting the Air Show circuit lately wants to RACE IT!

LOL!!!

[1066AD]

What happens in Reno ? WW2 show ?

[patton]

I know from the messerschmidts - and I have actually stayed in the messerschmidt castle, that belongs to my uncle ... who knows from rolls royce? there was a fokker to the left of me, a fokker to the right...

"all them fokkers were messerschidts!"

[Jack Deth]

The Me 109 should do fairly well at Pylons, Dashing.

Or in a dive.

The Andrews AFB Open House/Air Show always features some great old WWII warbirds. Navy Avengers, a Corsair, A-6 Texans, P-51Ds. Even an old B-17 and B-25.

Still think the Spitfire, Mustang and Hurricane were the most beautifylly designed planes of WWII.

Jack.

[narby]

Hey, I think that's the ME-109 I did some work on.

It was a Spanish 109 with a Merlin engine that someone had ground looped at Reno. We fixed the gear and rebuilt the skin under the engine and the cowling to look a wee bit more like the German version. A friend who had worked for Scaled Composites did a custom composite skin and I built the oil cooler air ducts and mounts. We put covers over the exhaust kinda like the German version, and cut down a DC-3 three blade propeller to replace the original Merlin four blade version.

It was a Hollywood ME-109 for sure.