For P-51 fans. What plane is it?

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For P-51 fans. What plane is it?

Post by tkjaer21 » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:37 am

The caption on yesterdays ESPN College Basketball page had the following photo with the caption of: NCAA Basketball All-American.

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Post by p51 » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:18 pm

That could be any number of P-51s. Looks unpainted as a whole in the shot, so a silver P-51. Has nose art and the paint strip to block the sun reflection above the engine.
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Post by kevrut » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:27 pm

Probably "Glamorous Glenn". (sp?) :P
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Post by VMF115 » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:37 pm

It's Glamorous Gal :wink:
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Post by Teamski » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:44 pm

All I know is that my man, Alando Tucker from Wisconsin is pictured, hehehehe.... Go Badgers!

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Post by tmanthegreat » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:06 am

I think the more important question is: Of the audience targeted by this poster, how many of them are going to recognize that the aircraft is a P-51D (and the greatest US fighterplane of WWII) at all?


Sort of reminds me of an old CSU Fresno (Fresno State) Bulldogs football team poster I found once that had a couple of the star players from 1986 standing next to a then-locally-based California ANG F-4 Phantom 8)
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Post by Waltz41 » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:21 pm

Yeah, good eyes VMF 115. Bob Baranaskas out of NY owns that plane. His son Chris now flies it as Bob flies a P-40. That was the plane I proposed to my now wife in! (no no no, we weren't in the air! ) :D
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Post by VMF115 » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:47 pm

Waltz41 wrote:Yeah, good eyes VMF 115. Bob Baranaskas out of NY owns that plane. His son Chris now flies it as Bob flies a P-40. That was the plane I proposed to my now wife in! (no no no, we weren't in the air! ) :D
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Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
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Post by tkjaer21 » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:51 pm

That is great detective work.
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