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Re: WildFire
Posted by Tim Savage on Thu Feb 14, 2002 01:17:00 PM
In reply top Re: WildFire posted by Joe Scheil on Thu Feb 14, 2002 10:37:23 AM
: : : wildfire was a r-2800 conversion but never flew..
:
: The aircraft was detailed in a racer issue of Air Classics
: a few years ago that profiled Dreadnaught, tsunami and Wi
: ldfire... The story I heard was that it was completly unfl
: yable and never really did get off the ground, though it w
: as tried. It went back into the hangar in Mojave, and may
: have been reduced back to parts by this time. I believe
: it simply did not work. It never left Mojave for Chino as
: far as I know.
:
: Joe
Joe, I knew the aircraft never left for Chino, but I recall seeing a photo of its flight at Fighter Rebuilders or someplace at CNO, but I could be mistaken.