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Just got back from holidays. Did a bike trip through Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.



Stopped off to go for a ride in a plane:

Is that a P40 you rode in???

P-51.

When I was a kid, we had this old can opener about the size of a postage stamp that my mom called a P-51. I was into aircraft models and had put together a P-51 Mustang, and I always assumed the P-51 can opener was made from scrapped P-51 Mustangs.

Forgive the brain fart, just had to share.

It could have been. I've read that most of the old warplanes were scrapped and recycled.

Not many P-51's were scraped.
The P-38 is known as a "John Wayne" by the United States Marine Corps, either because of its toughness and dependability, or because of an unsubstantiated story that the actor had been shown in an as-yet-unidentified training film opening a can of K-Rations. The can opener is pocket-sized, approximately 1.5 inches (38 mm) long, and consists of a short metal blade that serves as a handle, with a small, hinged metal tooth that folds out to pierce the can lid. A notch just under the hinge point keeps the opener hooked around the rim of the can as the device is "walked" around to cut the lid out. A larger version called the P-51 is somewhat easier to operate. The handle portion can also double as a flat-blade screwdriver.

Gotcha. Didn't look like it had the proper belly bulge to be one to me, but I'm not great at IDing older aircraft. That's cool though!

I worked overtime and then came home to get my bike ready for my ride tomorrow. There has to be a better design.....checking the air pressure and pumping up the rear tire is hard work.

In the past week I've worked 48 hours, and taken my first week of classes at UCCS. So basically I've gotten approximately 12 hours of sleep in the last week. Is bedtime now...

Blues wrote:checking the air pressure and pumping up the rear tire is hard work

Don't you own an air compressor?