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China Air Task Force
Successors to the American Volunteer Group
"Flying Tigers," the Army airmen of the
CATF included veteran pilot Johnny Alison.
Grumman F4F Wildcat
Often outnumbered and outclassed by its
Japanese opponents, the U.S. Navy fighter
performed yeoman service when times were
toughest early in World War II.
The Unconventional Burt Rutan
Rutan's signature designs have included
everything from canard homebuilts to
SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded
aircraft to achieve suborbital flight.
BRIEFING
Twin Mustang Prototype to Fly Again
T
ruth be told, the North
American F-82 wasn't
just two mated Mus-
tangs. Most of us who
have never gotten our hands
greasy on one have assumed the
very-long-range postwar twin
was simply two P-51 fuselages
riveted to a wing center section
and horizontal stabilizer. "We've
found that there are very few
parts common to the World
War II Mustang series," says
restoration pro Tom Reilly of
Douglas, Ga., who has spent
three years totally rebuilding the
rarest Twin Mustang to sur-
vive—the number-two XP-82
prototype—and who estimates
he still has a year and a half to
go before his airplane flies.
The second prototype
North American XP-82
undergoes flight testing.
And fly it will, for Reilly is
Left: The XP-82's ieft
famous among warbirders for
fuseiage is recovered
putting back into the air proj-
from Waiter Sopiata's
ects ranging from Stearmans to
salvage yard. Right: The
B-24s that had been consigned
right fuseiage. Below
to scrapheaps. Indeed, Reilly's
right: The ieft fuseiage
XP-82 came largely from two
nears completion.
junkyards—one outside Fair-
banks, Alaska, and the other fVom late Ohioan Walter Soplata's
Calif., shop. Vintage VI 2s,
famous back-lot salvage yard of rare warbirds.
found a brand-new one in a
Reilly isn't doing the job on a shoestring, as you can see by visit-
garage in Mexico City,
ing his detailed website, xp-82twinmustangproject.com. After all,
though it remains a mystery
the zero-timed Rolls-Royce Merlin engines and brand-new props
how it got there, but no
for his project have cost over half a mulion dollars alone. With
spare backward P-82 props
more than 40 years of experience at the warbird restoration game,
exist. The German company
however, Reilly has put together a small consortium of investors
MT Propellers is building
who are bankrolling the project in hopes of a multi-million-dollar
both props for Reilly, with composite blades on new MT hubs.
sale of the finished airplane to a collector. No other P- or F-82s are
Not to be outdone, Reilly and his small crew of craftspeople
flying anywhere in the world, and chances are that only one ever
(with occasional hands-on help from the project's investor-
will: an equally classy restoration of an F-82E currently underway
enthusiasts) have buut from scratch the bulk of the right-hand
by Pat Harker and his C&P Aviation crew in Anoka, Minn.
fuselage, using the original left unit—the only complete fuselage
they were able to acquire—as a master. Why
The rarest parts of the XP-82 are its right-
not just buy a scrapped P-51H ftiselage,
side Merlin engine and propeller, which turn
since popular lore has it that two of them
counterclockwise (as seen from the cockpit)
were used to cobble up Twin Mustangs?
while the left engine rotates conventionally.
"Although fuel in the tanks is
Because they are actually quite different; the
That entire main engine block, nose case, oil
XP-82's fuselages are nearly 5 feet longer, for
pan and crankshaft are unique to the Twin
limited, gravity is forever."
one thing. Twin "Mustang" indeed.
Mustang, and hardly any have survived.
—test pilot Corky Meyer
Engine-builder Mike Nixon's Tehachapi,
Stephan Wilkinson
Air Quotes
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