DODCFR From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 70 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 3812 times:
I'm don't know if it's true ot not, but me Dad once told me you could buy a surplus P-51 for $500 at the end of WWII. Wish he would have bought one and put it in a hangar for 30 or 40 years.
BMI727 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 14321 posts, RR: 26 Reply 2, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 3683 times:
Quoting DODCFR (Reply 1): I'm don't know if it's true ot not, but me Dad once told me you could buy a surplus P-51 for $500 at the end of WWII. Wish he would have bought one and put it in a hangar for 30 or 40 years.
Surplus planes were a dime a dozen back then. I read that Kirk Kerkorian bought some surplus C-47s and paid them off by selling the fuel left in the tanks. Not a bad deal by any standards.
Why do Aerospace Engineering students have to turn things in on time?