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pecosbob

(7,538 posts) Sun Mar 20, 2022, 06:13 PM Mar 2022

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Anybody wanna buy a lightly used P-82?

Military aviation unobtanium...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36150/you-can-now-buy-the-worlds-only-flyable-p-82-twin-mustang-warbird

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Anybody wanna buy a lightly used P-82? (Original Post) pecosbob Mar 2022 OP

Those Things Are Too Weird For Words, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2022 #1

Was this only for training or did it ever see action? Schmice3 Mar 2022 #2

Some saw service through the Korean War pecosbob Mar 2022 #3

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)

1. Those Things Are Too Weird For Words, Sir

Reply to pecosbob (Original post)

Sun Mar 20, 2022, 06:24 PM

Mar 2022

Nice picture, thanks.

Schmice3

(294 posts)

2. Was this only for training or did it ever see action?

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Fri Mar 25, 2022, 01:19 AM

Mar 2022

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)

3. Some saw service through the Korean War

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Fri Mar 25, 2022, 05:21 AM

Mar 2022

They were shelved at the end of WWII but brought back as a stop-gap measure while we were developing early fighter jets.

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