[78thFG_Doodle]

Hey guys just got back from Tillamook, Oregon. Went to the Tillamook Air Museum and got to sit in a T-6 Texan and my favorite plane the P-51 Mustang! Here's some pictures of me sitting in the Mustang.

Enjoy!

[RAF_Leigh]

WOW very nice

how did you manage to get in one?

[78thFG_Doodle]

Funny you ask that. My Dad and I were taking pictures of a T-6 Texan cockpit and this guy about 5'7 inches walks out of the gift shop and asks "Want to get in it?" Of course our jaws dropped after he asked that. So my Dad climbed up into the T-6 for about ten minutes and then I got in it for about 30 minutes. So then him and my Dad are talking and they were talking about the Mustang and he asked if we wanted to get in it. So I got excited and got up in that thing for about 30 minutes and it was quite something.

[Mangas]

Hey, 328th*Doodle, you're a lucky man to get into that.
By the way, do you have by any chance a P-39 displayed there? I would ask to take some cockpit insides pics, since I'm going to repaint it's cockpit too... :wink:


Regards,
Mangas.

[juhroen89]

i consider you a very lucky man anno 2009:p 8)

I've been ones the cockpit of a (bf-109G-10) but it was just a display-version no wings and no tail.

[78thFG_Doodle]

Thanks for the comments guys. There is a P-39 Airacobra there but it's being restored. I have other cockpit pictures of P-38's, 109', SBD's and etc which I'll post later.

[HolyGrail]

NIIIICE !!!

Thank you 328th*Doodle for posting pictures !!

One other thing I noticed is that you look exactly like young Bill Clinton !! hock: :lol:

Sincerely,
HolyGrail

[78thFG_Doodle]

Wow! Thanks for the comment. Bill Clinton, huh? Well that's a first. :-P

[caldrail]

Museum curators often enjoy putting smiles on their visitors faces. As a young boy I visited the Skyfame Museum in Gloucester, England (Now closed, but they had a Halifax cockpit, the Saunders Roe jet fighter flying boat, a Mosquito, all sorts of stuff). Anyhow, seeing as the place wasn't too busy, the curator saw me staring glassy eyed at real warplanes and asked if I wanted to get in one. Before I could answer I was hoisted inside an Avro Anson. I still remember the expanse of duck egg green metal and thinking how uncomfortable it must have been to fly in this thing. The view from the cockpit was very good as I remember, you could see all round you.

[RRuger]

I've been to Tillamook, great displays great airplanes, nice shots Doodle but next time more of the plane ok

[Guest]

I've been to Tillamook, great displays great airplanes, nice shots Doodle but next time more of the plane ok

He did post a topic with Pictures of the P51 from the outside.........

And as this is called " Inside the Mustang" .............



:roll:

[78thFG_Doodle]

Yeah, the other thread has many pictures of this aircraft.