Bah! Crap. This airplane was finished too late to actually fly in combat. I worked around the world in the late 1940's, eventually ending up in New Mexico, where it was parked 15 miles away from the explosions of three thermonuclear bombs. After three years of sitting, it was examined and then sold for scrap. It spent some time dropping water and retardent on fires in the Northwest, but eventually a restoration group bought it and now it flies around the country.
This thing is lovingly! restored! That cockpit, though old and cramped...makes modern airliners look dirty~
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