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Add To Cart$1.99Huffstutler’s FM-2 WildcatMany new fighter restorations come out of shops that can boast crews with decades of experience for customers with extremely “deep pockets.” At just 25 years old Conrad Huffstutler is younger than some restorers have been working in the industry, and yet he and his small team at Wild Warbirds of Uvalde, Texas, produced the most historically accurate FM2 Wildcat flying today. This is the story of how they transformed a basket case into an award winning warbird.
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Add To Cart$1.99In Pursuit of Magic – The 16-Year Resurrection of an L-39When Manfred Rusche found several East German L-39 carcasses stacked in the grass he decided one of them would be his next big goal in life. His pursuit of perfection ultimately paid off after the jet was shipped to the USA for assembly and flight testing at Code 1 Aviation.
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Add To Cart$1.99Is Fast Ever Enough? – P-51 Mustang NACA 127When speed was king this P-51 Mustang served NACA, the forerunner of NASA, in testing new ideas and technologies. Bill Allmon found it rotting away atop a pole, and then enlisted John Muszala to return it to its original glory.
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Add To Cart$1.99It’s Not A StearmanWhen he’s not zipping through the sky in his sexy P-51 Mustang, Kendall Wagner might be enjoying the open cockpit mystique of his World War II primary trainer, a rare N3N biplane that is all too often mistaken for its cousin, the Stearman. Frank Mormillo offers some historical background on what makes the N3N special.
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Add To Cart$1.99Ken’s KanbakuWhen surviving examples were lacking, Hollywood contracted the conversion of Vultee BT-13 trainers into accurate looking versions of the original Val dive bombers. This story looks at Ken Laird’s reproduction Val and the history of Kanbaku actions of World War II.
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Add To Cart$1.99Louisiana HEATWAVE ProjectHow much manpower and money does it take to transform a dilapidated gate guardian into a static display showpiece? You’ll be amazed at the answer.
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Add To Cart$1.99Max Happy – Meet the 2013 Voodoo TeamHow did the Purple People and their P-51, Voodoo, win the 2013 Unlimited Gold Championship after years of coming up short? In this story Scott Germain tells how everything came together.
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Add To Cart$1.99Opportune Harpoon – Saving a PV-2D from the SmeltersThis PV-2D Harpoon could have been scrapped several times during its tenure, but fate and dedicated people prevented its destruction and restored it to its original military configuration.
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Add To Cart$1.99Father GooseA true family affair, the restoration of this Grumman amphibian was ‘all hands on deck’ for the Pemberton family.
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Add To Cart$1.99Fifi’s First Date Warbird Digest sits down with Randy Sohn, the man, the myth, the legend, …and one really down to earth guy!
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Add To Cart$1.99Into the UnknownHonoring the test pilots and engineers that pushed the limits and boundaries of aviation during the war years, this new Mustang restoration by Pacific Fighters is a stunning X-ample of the breed.
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Add To Cart$1.99Push to TestMore than a warbird, this Kingcobra’s NACA background makes it truly unique.