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http://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-restora ... light.htmlGepubliceerd op 28 jan. 2019
Today marked the “official”first flight of Tom Reilly’s XP-82 Twin Mustang following a decade-long restoration effort.
According to all involved, it went magnificently....
The world now has an airworthy Twin Mustang for the first time in many decades!
Bravo to Tom Reilly and his entire restoration team, and to Walter Soplata who had the foresight to save this remarkable prototype when no one else would!
This of course follows the brief unplanned first flight on New Years’ Eve, 2018,
the details of which are perhaps best left to Tom Reilly
who described it in a phone interview with Warbird Digest’s Moreno Aguiari back in early January as follows,
“The aircraft wasn’t supposed to fly that day…”