{"id":1089,"date":"2013-11-21T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:42:19","slug":"byron-originals-mustang-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2013\/11\/21\/byron-originals-mustang-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Originals Mustang Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several years ago, the Acquisition Committee approved the donation of a Byron Originals P-51D Mustang from the collection of Gordon Ingram.\u00a0 After its acceptance, multiple conversations between the donor, the museum and a shipping company planned out the model\u2019s arrival.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the shipment was not smooth, and the Mustang arrived heavily damaged.\u00a0\u00a0\"2009.47fuselage_cracks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Damage included a cracked fuselage, punctures in the wing, bent landing gear, and multiple scratches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"2009.47landing_gear_damage\"\"2009.47flap_damage\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Photographs of damage to the Byron Originals P-51D Mustang, 2009.47.01.<\/p>\n

\"2009.47fuselage_repair\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Volunteers and museum staff have been working to restore the model ever since.\u00a0 Work has included building a sub-structure inside the fuselage in order to reattach the cracked fiberglass skin, gluing and filling all the cracks, and then building up the trailing edge of the wing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"2009.47wing_repair\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All of these repairs marred the bright yellow color of the R.A. Bob Hoover\u2019s \u201cOle Yeller\u201d scale details, meaning that everything then had to be sanded down and primed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"2009.47wing_primed\"<\/a>To complete the work, a lower cowl needs to be replaced and the canopy installed before the scale details can be replicated in paint and decals.\u00a0\u00a0 We would also like to install a working tail wheel retract assembly.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have the parts to do the work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Do you know where we can find any of these?\u00a0 If so, contact Maria at mariav@modelaircraft.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Again, those parts are a:
\n\u2022\u00a0Lower cowl
\n\u2022\u00a0Canopy
\n\u2022\u00a0Tail Wheel Retract System<\/p>\n

\"2009.47donated_parts\"<\/a>Many thanks go to Marvin Ingerson and Mitchell Shore for the donated propellers, spinners, gear reduction system and belts, and other components that will be used to complete the restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several years ago, the Acquisition Committee approved the donation of a Byron Originals P-51D Mustang from the collection of Gordon Ingram.\u00a0 After its acceptance, multiple conversations between the donor, the museum and a shipping company planned out the model\u2019s arrival.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the shipment was not smooth, and the Mustang arrived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,112,1],"tags":[13,56,50,95,85,68],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum","category-radio-control-2","category-uncategorized","tag-model-aviation","tag-artifact","tag-museum-2","tag-preservation","tag-radio-control","tag-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}