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I took some new pics of old kits the past week and will post more of them the coming days. This is "Excalibur III" previously owned by Paul Mantz (he won the '46 and '47 Bendix with this plane), which was flown by Capt. Charles F. Blair from Norway across the North Pole to Alaska in a record-setting 10.5 hours. I read somewhere that he dropped a letter to Santa for his son (?) over the North Pole :-) Another record flight was done later from NY to London. Excalibur III was a P-51C with wet wing conversion (by Mantz). The kit is Tamiya, with Hasegawa prop and DIY decals. One glich is the inner u/c doors which should be up. Maybe I will correct this now. Easy enough. Here is some more background of the real Excalibur III: https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/29-may-1951/ René
