"Most of my parts come from Lowe's," he says. "I framed the plane with welded light metal conduit. My mother's house several years ago had a new roof put on it, and I used the tin from the old one to cover the plane." Harrington's Oscar even has a convincing cockpit. "I got pictures of the real cockpit, and I made it just as close as I could. I found a way to use tin cans as housings for the phony gauges, and I use stamps to put the numbers on them. You pick up a lot of stuff as you go along-how to do things." Harrington has indeed had time to practice. His first life-size replica, built in 2012, was a Curtiss P-40N, which now sits in shambles, a broken-down exhibit at the local airport. "I wanted to cover it and keep everybody off, but the kids got on it," he says. "Stuff happened. I'm done finished with that."
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