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Of a P-51...
Posted by bdk on Fri Oct 04, 2002 12:53:33 PM
In reply top a re-construction of WHAT exactly? N/T posted by Paul on Fri Oct 04, 2002 12:29:23 PM
I just picked my favorite term...that was the opinion sought, wasn't it? It is all just a matter of semantics. You could spend a lifetime trying to get a consensus over which word is most appropriate, but the facts still remain- a flying airplane will result which is for all intents and purposes a P-51.
: : What the owner will do with this identity and collection
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: : f parts, I don't know- but the fact that parts of Dean's
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: : irplane will be flying again is an important one. What t
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: : ly matters is how YOU approach it. If you choose to cons
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: : er it a tribute to Dean that parts of his airplane are o
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: : e more airworthy (regardless of the paint on the outside
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: : good for you.
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: : The fact is that this collection of parts and the identi
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: : are now private property. Even if Jack Roush re-constru
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: : ed this aircraft to exactly duplicate Dean's markings, a
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: : subsequent owner years from now could strip it off and
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: : int it some other way. The tribute of this aircraft flyi
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: : is what you feel inside- nothing more.
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: : Maybe you can donate a rudder pedal to the project to ma
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: : it more whole than it is now... I would suggest at leas
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: : contacting Jack Roush and asking him directly what his p
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: : ns are. Maybe you could put the seed in his mind to dupl
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: : ate Dean's plane (if that isn't already his intention).
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: : : I have learned that it is indeed Jack Roush who pu
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: : : sed the remains of Uncle Dean's Mustang. Here is what
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: : : ow......