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The owner of the company was killed in the P-51D test aircraft. It had a belt driven Honda engine.

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The Corsair looks especially cute! I've seen the Thunderbolt, Zero and FW-190 as well. Never seen the Sea Fury but I think most of those were constructed in the UK.

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These seem a bit ambitious...

Just looking the UK-built WAR replicas - the Corsair looks to have not been finished as it was cancelled by the CAA - owner has been a fairly prolific builder I think, I'm sure there were several homebuilt projects completed by him. As I thought, it appeared in the projects tent at the PFA at Cranfield in a fairly advanced state.

There was just one Sea Fury which flew and sadly suffered a fatal crash at a fly in with a new owner at the helm - accident report leads me to draw a conclusion but does not actually say it, so I won't.

We had one P-47 which looks to have been built in the US and imported - it's now been with drawn from use it seems. Apparently I did catch up with it at another PFA event at Wroughton in 1993 - well, it was there and I was there so I imagine we encountered each other! Looked nice in the pics!



They do indeed!

Back in the 70s I noticed a pair of wings outside somebody's house near Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey. These apparently had come from a Miles Gemini twin and were intended as the basis of a scale Mosquito replica; sad to say the project didn't seem to progress all that far. We also had a Sturgeonair Mustang replica completed near me, lovely piece of work which eventually passed to a new owner who died in it performing aerobatics at an airshow.

Sorry, thread drift...

Back in the early '80s there were three beautifully built W.A.R. Aircraft replicas operating out of Falcon Field in Arizona, two Jugs and a Corsair. I was only about 10 when these photos were taken but I do recall a conversation between my father and the builder of the Jug done in Eagleston's colors who expressed that the little warbird was a hand full. Ironically, if memory serves, the OD Jug with the checkered cowling was destroyed in a fatal crash. No idea how or where the Corsair ended up but the Eagleston Jug remains at Falcon and now hangs in the CAF Arizona Wing museum hangar. The pics are scans of 40 year photos that were not all that great to begin with so please excuse the quality.

Chad, they were in the hangar next to the one the Wing had in O row, Yates was on the west end, the CAF, then the mini jugs. It was not a fatal crash, but he did end up loosing his feet if I remember correctly. Somewhere I have a photo of the mini jugs parked one under each wing of Chaplin's P-47 Big Stud.

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I wonder what he meant by that. Was this version of the Thunderbolt difficult to fly?

These replicas are really nice looking. No unsightly bulges in the cowlings etc.

I got the same story when I bought a Luscombe. Lots of advice about how readily they groundlooped. With proper training it isn't a big deal. If you hopped out of a Cessna 150 and jumped in a Luscombe with no tailwheel experience, yes you most likely will groundloop it!