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Dear Jeff,
Let me introduce my self first. My name is
Akiko and I live in
Ohio. My brother is a professional Manga writer in
Japan. Are you familiar with Manga? It's like a cartoon but more
realistic drawings. Anyway, he is now planning to write a new story that
involves battle planes, such as P51 Mustang, B29 and spitfire. In order to
do that he needs to do some research and first of all he is planning to come
to the US to visit several airplane museums early next month. As he
doesn't understand a bit of English, he asked me to find out which museum he
should go so that he could see everything he wants to see. So I was surfing
and found your page.
Wow! I can't tell you how much your web page
helped us. I didn't even know that there is a huge museum just hour away
from my house. After contacting some of the museums you listed, he decided
to visit one in
Dayton and one in
San Diego. But we are still facing a problem. As his work style is
to draw the background as real as possible, he really needs to take a close
look at cockpit of P51 and take some pictures. Although he could get some
pictures from the website of Dayton museum, they are not enough he said.
However, they would not allows us to do that due to the preservation
policy. I didn't have a chance to call
San Diego yet but I doubt that they do. So here is the question, do
you know any place in the States (preferably either in
California or
Ohio) where it is allowed to go in the cockpit of P51, take a close
look at and take some pictures? It seems that you know everything about
the airplane, I wonder if you could help us.
I read the story about your injury and all
the incidents after that. I'm really sorry for what happened and truly hope
that you will get better. I also hope this request would not trouble you
much.
Thank you very much in advance and look
forward to hearing from you soon.
Take care,
Akiko
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