Full Scale Replica WW II aircraft

[p51]

Dr. Jim O'Hara of Texas has one awesome 75% scale P-38. It's all aluminum, too. Will see if I can locate a photo.

http://p38assn.org/replica.htm

[Snake45]

Dr. Jim O'Hara of Texas has one awesome 75% scale P-38. It's all aluminum, too. Will see if I can locate a photo.

http://p38assn.org/replica.htm

That's amazing and awesome! Wonder why it hasn't gotten more ink anywhere before?

[p51]

That's amazing and awesome! Wonder why it hasn't gotten more ink anywhere before?

I thought the same thing when I googled it. I'd never heard of that before.

[Pogo]

Harald and his friend Achim are building it.

Engels, per chance?

[redvanner]

Harald and his friend Achim are building it.

Engels, per chance?

No Kurt, different Achim!

Michael

[cwmc]

I think Bob DeFord's fabulous Allison V-1710 powered Jurca Spitfire is one of the best replicas flying. It seems to get a lot of time on it and has pretty good performance. It wasn't cheap but he has a lot less into it than a fighter costs though the operating costs are the same.
Chris...

[Mathieu]

At this moment there is a Fokker D.XXI under construction which should fly by 2018.

[StangStung]

At this moment there is a Fokker D.XXI under construction which should fly by 2018.

Sounds awesome.

Link?

Pics?

[JFS61]

Maybe the warbird community needs to sit down and hash out an agreed upon terminology to prevent confusion as to what is going on, something along the lines of:

Reproduction - A full scale aircraft, built to precise factory specifications with original materials (or modern equivalents thereof), such that it is virtually indistinguishable from the original aircraft, and is for all practical purposes to be considered a "continuation" of the original factory production run.

Replica - An aircraft, be it full or reduced scale, which bares a superficial resemblance to the aircraft in question, but is built with substitute materials and/or construction techniques, and is in no way intended to be taken or viewed as being the original item.

[DH82EH]

Quite a fine looking machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_D.XXI

I wonder what is going to be the choice for a powerplant?

Or as an Aussie mate of mine said once "what's it got in it for a donk"?

Andy

[Mathieu]

Powerplant will be a Wright Cyclone 1820F. Photos are on page 4, 6 and 7 of this link: http://www.nederlandseluchtvaart.nl/for ... lica/page4

Regards,

Mathieu.

[DH82EH]

Nice!
Very appropriate registration letters
Thanks for the link. Best of luck with this and please do keep us posted.

Andy

[Mathieu]

Hi,

Some photos from the progress of this project can be seen here (post 84): http://www.nederlandseluchtvaart.nl/for ... lica/page9

[menards]

http://www.cameronaircraft.com/Team51%2 ... Plane.html

Full size composite P-51 that could be either Allison/Merlin/ or Turboprop powered.

Question...do you still need the "experimental P-51" rating to fly it?

[Stoney]

Saw this in oz back in 1998