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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