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Old Jan 31, 2008 | 06:10 PM
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replacement parts are getting tricky to find too!
 
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Old Jan 31, 2008 | 08:59 PM
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I hear they leak oil
Radial engines don't leak that bad. But they do spit a hell oflot out when they are running.
One figure I heard was that they only recover about 20% of the oil that's put in.
Probably why every time you fuel up, it takes GALLONS of oil for each engine to top it off.

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replacement parts are getting tricky to find too!
They made enonghWright Cyclone engines that there's little shortage of parts for the forseeable future. They have used the same engine or a version of it in an incredablenumber ofdifferent aircraft.
As for the planes most were cut up for scrap or used for target practice so even though Boeing made something north of 10,000 of them. Many of theparts are in some cases unobtainable and have to be custom fabricated. Even at that the odds are thatthe ones still flying, especially in the US are in better shape today than the day they left the assembly line.
 
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Old Jan 31, 2008 | 09:59 PM
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If I were you I would trade. You could buy an entired line of Harleys with the profit from selling that old beauty and have money left over.
It's a great Flying fortress, but personally, I prefer the B-25.
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Old Feb 4, 2008 | 02:48 PM
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I know it's not a softail but here's a picture of the buell I used to own at my old
workplace
 
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Old Feb 4, 2008 | 02:49 PM
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Think he got you covered there Marsh [sm=americanasmiley.gif]
 
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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 09:25 AM
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I think he's got you on payload and knows the way to Schweinfurt and Regensburg without GPS...
 
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so..............where was this?
 
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flying bulls hangar 8, salzburg, austria, I spent 4 years there mainly restoring a dc-6

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