ME-262

[USMCmech]

Someone asked the lead mechanic in his hangar what the total engine build was going to run after installation... he said somewhere north of $500,000.

That's actually lower than I would have expected.

 

[write-stuff]

And to think back in WWII, the pilots ran the crap out of the engines to the point that the TBO on most warplane engines was about 200 hours. A buddy of mine flew P-40s and P-38s in New Guinea and the Philippines. He tells storys of how the pilots abused the engines. Heck, they didn't care. The airplane got the equivalent of a 100-hour inspection every night and it was no big deal just to hang a new engine on.

 

[Inverted]

I want to buy the tooling and jigs for the p-51. Make new ones. I imagine you'd be up to your eyeballs in orders. Not sure what I'd do for an engine... maybe there are still some RR Merlin engines in crates somewhere. You can still buy a brand new crated R985 so....

I can't remember the name of the company, but based out of KSNS is the company that owns the type certificate for the P-51 and are building brand new P-51 Mustangs. They restored this bad boy in the process too:

 

[DubyaDawg]

That two-seater 262 looks really odd. I assume that's a modern invention. Another interesting factoid: the first 262s were tail-wheel.

Apparently they had 2 seaters that were eventually used as night fighters, either way I actually kind of like the way it looks.

 

[SeanD]

The P-51 is by far, the sexiest looking fighter of all time.

 

[BravoHotel]

The P-51 is by far, the sexiest looking fighter of all time.

I disagree Sir.

 

[tiredcfi]

Is it me or does the nose on the 262 look like an Aztec or 99??

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

The P-51 is by far, the sexiest looking fighter of all time.

Negative, King Cobra disagrees.

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

That two-seater 262 looks really odd. I assume that's a modern invention. Another interesting factoid: the first 262s were tail-wheel.

Don't get WacoFan started.

 

[derg]

I want to buy the tooling and jigs for the p-51. Make new ones. I imagine you'd be up to your eyeballs in orders. Not sure what I'd do for an engine... maybe there are still some RR Merlin engines in crates somewhere. You can still buy a brand new crated R985 so....

ROTAX!

Meeeebebebebebebebebebeb...

 

[Vector4Food]

FW-190 Dora 9

Or the Heinkel Lersche

 

[jtrain609]

I want to buy the tooling and jigs for the p-51. Make new ones. I imagine you'd be up to your eyeballs in orders. Not sure what I'd do for an engine... maybe there are still some RR Merlin engines in crates somewhere. You can still buy a brand new crated R985 so....

I'd partner with Basler and hang a PT-6 up front. That'd be a monster.

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

I'd partner with Basler and hang a PT-6 up front. That'd be a monster.

You mean like this? (Minus the PT-6 part) http://www.controller.com/listingsd...-PAPA-51-LTD.-CO.-THUNDER-MUSTANG/1265797.htm

 

[Brian29]

I gotta say it is hard to beat the F-4U for pure beauty.

 

[WacoFan]

Don't get WacoFan started.

I have always wondered what the 262 taildraggers were like. I imagine pretty sporting - hence the move to tricycle and the fact that they are not reproducing that version.

 

[WacoFan]

I'd partner with Basler and hang a PT-6 up front. That'd be a monster.

Piper built a Mustang clone with a big turbine on it. The "Enforcer" or something like that. MikeD posted about it a couple times.

 

[WacoFan]

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I gotta say it is hard to beat the F-4U for pure beauty.

Bearcat for pure performance I think.

Corsair for looks.

Mustang for...um...nothing really. Not a huge Mustang fanboi.

Thunderbolt or Skyraider for pure "badassness".

 

[WacoFan]

ROTAX!

Meeeebebebebebebebebebeb...

Not sure if you mean "Rotax" or "Rotec" - which builds the radials now. In fact, there are some guys building three Rose Parakeets and hanging Rotec R2800 radials on them. Should look pretty cool when done.

 

[Roger Roger]

Bearcat for pure performance I think.

Corsair for looks.

Mustang for...um...nothing really. Not a huge Mustang fanboi.

Thunderbolt or Skyraider for pure "badassness".

FW-190. Check, and mate.
Boris Badenov

 

[jtrain609]

Piper built a Mustang clone with a big turbine on it. The "Enforcer" or something like that. MikeD posted about it a couple times.

2,455 horsepower. Nice.