Slartibartfast Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) [nothing to see here. Move along.] Edited October 1, 2019 by Slartibartfast Duplication Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slartibartfast Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 18 hours ago, 11bee said: Korea caught the US military completely unprepared, so to paraphrase something from a more recent conflict, they went to war with the air force they had. Exactly. Our post-war Air Force was expecting the Soviet hordes to come flying in from over the North Pole and interception was the order of the day. To steal a future motto, "not a pound for air to ground". The Mustang was as fast and cheaper to operate than the Thunderbolt which was copacetic to the greatly reduced Air Force budgets that were focused on jets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jamie Cheslo Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 On 9/19/2019 at 11:01 PM, ChesshireCat said: My Dad and the guy in charge of Studebaker - Packard were very close friends, and I remember him saying they had warehouses full of engines. Like Allison's, they had thousands of them stockpiled everywhere. Gary So that would make a lot of sense. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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