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Published: 2009-01-23 14:47:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 1297; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 34
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Is there anything man-made better looking than this?P-51C Mustang, N1204 - underwent a 13 year restoration project in order to be returned to flying condition!
I want to thank for suggesting to visit Fantasy of Flight aviation museum!
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I'm not much of an expert on these things, but I suspect it's polished (maybe similar to this: brightworkpolish.com/product/b…)
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It's the nicest, cleanest, Mustang I've ever seen
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Awesome shot, of an awesome plane! You have a very cool gallery!
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Thank you! Glad you like it!
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Fantasy of Flight was one of the best museums I've ever been too.
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It's pretty neat, yeah! ^^
Fantasy of Flight certainly isn't the biggest I've been to, but they have restored a lot of their planes in quite simply perfect condition, they're real beauties!
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I was impressed by the fact that they try to restore every single airplane to flying condition, and they make sure to fly all of their airplanes every now and then. To me, that's a much better tribute to aviation than putting a new paint job on a plane and sticking it in a corner to gather dust or leaving it outside mounted on a metal pole.
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Yeah 
They have a fully working and immaculate looking Lockheed Constellation for example, but because they can't get the money together for insurance etc. it only does static engine runs.
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A Constellation eh? That might be worth a trip to see. Fantasy of Flight had a Connie when I was there (2004) but it was very beat up and needed a lot of work. I'm not sure what they did with it, it was for sale at the time.
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They still had the Connie there earlier this year, looked like it could use a fresh coat of paint.
A picture of the Connie here: [link]
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This is beautiful! What a great angle on this war horse.
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Thanks ^^ Not hard to find a nice angle on a Mustang
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Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida.
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ooh oke wandt hier in nederland was er ook een keer zo'n middag met allemaal vliegtuigen.
Daar was ik heen geweest
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Aviodrome denk ik als ik zo naar je gallery kijk
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Wicked! I can almost hear her cranking up for battle
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Oh she runs ^^
Sadly, it didn't that day...
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I love how the reflection on the side makes it totally blend into the sky! sooo shiney!
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Thanks
They've certainly put a lot of work into this machine!
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I'm really pleased you managed to visit Fantasy of Flight and obviously enjoyed it. The day I was there, it was the Cub which gave the demonstration flight. What about all those WWII era engines they have in storage ! Amazing.
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Yeah, very impressive! Without a doubt the single largest collection of airplane engines I've ever seen anywhere. It may well be the largest collection of them in existence, of that kind anyway.
I was hoping the other Mustang they have was gonna do a flight that day as they towed it to the fuelling station - but it just stayed there and it didn't fly.
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