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“More than sixty years ago, during World War II, powerful V-12 and radial piston engines drove the world's fastest airplanes. Today these same aircraft are kept flying by a handful of skilled mechanics.” So opens the Web site of Vintage V-12s, Inc., a small Tehachapi company dedicated to keeping some of the best aircraft in the history of aviation flying well into the 21st Century. It's hard enough to find vintage airframes and restore them to airworthiness.  Many aviation aficionados dedicate their lives to this task. Many of these prizes end up in museums, or on a pedestal in from of them. But an airplane isn't meant to sit on the ground, or even a pedestal-it's meant to fly. Vintage V-12s provide the authentic engines that make that possible. Their efforts have put such historic airplanes as the P-40 Warhawk of the famous Flying Tigers, P-51 Mustangs, P-38 Lightnings, P-63 King Cobras, British Spitfires, and German Me-109s back into the air, the sound of their...
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