Full Scale Replica WW II aircraft

p51 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:39 pm

marine air wrote:

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 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:49 pm **Posts:** 864

p51 wrote:

marine air wrote:

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 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:59 pm

Snake45 wrote:

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 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:12 pm

redvanner wrote:

Harald and his friend Achim are building it.

Engels, per chance?

redvanner · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:01 am

Pogo wrote:

redvanner wrote:

Harald and his friend Achim are building it.

Engels, per chance?

No Kurt, different Achim!

Michael

cwmc · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:43 am **Posts:** 322

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 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2016 1:40 pm

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

StangStung · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2016 1:48 pm

Mathieu wrote:

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

Sounds awesome.

Link?

Pics?

JFS61 · **Joined:** Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:44 pm **Posts:** 305

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 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2016 3:22 pm

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"? :wink:

Andy

Mathieu · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:00 pm

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 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:12 pm

Nice!
Very appropriate registration letters

Thanks for the link. Best of luck with this and please do keep us posted.

Andy

Mathieu · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2016 1:13 pm

Hi,

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

menards · **Joined:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:46 pm **Posts:** 543

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 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:38 pm

Saw this in oz back in 1998

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