[TowerTalk] Heavy Duty Rotor

[K8RI on TT]

On 9/7/2011 5:14 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> I wish I could find that pile of prop pitch units now!
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Heavy Duty Rotor
> From: K8RI on TT<k8ri-on-towertalk at tm.net>
> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:07:02 -0400
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Wish I had known what the demand would be 50 years later.

OTOH in the mid 60's I was on the surplus bidders list.   There were 4 
P-51s some where down near the gulf coast.  They were flyable and even 
had gas in them.  They went as a lot at some where between $7,000 and 
$8,000 each. I could have probably flown them home at economy cruise 
(just over 200mph) with the gas that was in them.  Today a nice P-51 
might go for as much as 1.5 million.  However, back then each one  
represented a year's wages with a *good* paying job.  I doubt that I'd 
have even been able to get a loan of that size except for a home back then.

73

Roger (K8RI)


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> On 9/6/2011 8:04 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
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>> BTW, Prop pitch motors cost thousands of dollars 60 years ago.
> <snip>
> New, Yes, but not at the surplus shops. My comment about them being
> available for between $10 and $20 was in the early 1960's and they had
> piles of them from new to well used. If you wanted one it was "there's
> the pile, go dig one out".
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
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