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Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:33 am

https://www.boschungglobal.com/Inventory/Projects/Junkers/Ju87-D-3-%22Stuka%22/Currently-not-registered

Well more parts actually.....

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Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:49 pm

2-3% Complete, almost ready to fly!

Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:36 pm

Scott Rose wrote:2-3% Complete, almost ready to fly!


Just add airframe!

Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:03 pm

Hey, it has a wheel!

Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:08 pm

Paging Hans Rudel....

Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Sat Jul 20, 2019 12:20 am

old iron wrote:Hey, it has a wheel!


Obviously, Old Iron, you don't have a clue about aircraft restoration. You failed to take into account the complete set of MANUALS included. These are impossible to replicate, extremely rare (practically unobtainium), and will save thousands of hours and many 100,000s of dollars in the restoration. According to the ad, they include, "...hundreds of mainly unpublished pictures of existing Stukas, wrecks and parts, close ups etc., technical documentations of the airframe and engine" and " 1 large file containing a set of drawings of the center section and certain components, re-engineered from existing wrecks and parts".

I daresay, they alone are probably worth the asking price for the whole project.

Mac

Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Sat Jul 20, 2019 2:27 am

Ex Phil Mertins?

Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Sat Jul 20, 2019 5:21 am

Jim MacDonald wrote:
Obviously, Old Iron, you don't have a clue about aircraft restoration. You failed to take into account the complete set of MANUALS included. These are impossible to replicate, extremely rare (practically unobtainium), and will save thousands of hours and many 100,000s of dollars in the restoration. According to the ad, they include, "...hundreds of mainly unpublished pictures of existing Stukas, wrecks and parts, close ups etc., technical documentations of the airframe and engine" and " 1 large file containing a set of drawings of the center section and certain components, re-engineered from existing wrecks and parts".

I daresay, they alone are probably worth the asking price for the whole project.

Mac


It looks more like service manuals and photos. This is not the same as correct and complete technical drawings for construction, which have practically been "unobtainium" for all Stuka versions. Center section drawings are a good start, but they are "reengineered" from existing wrecks which opens the question as to how correct they are. Paul Allen's Stuka project had to rely on 3D scanning of the example in Chicago. I think this project would also have to rely on scanning the Ju-87G in the UK, which originally was a Ju-87D before it was refitted.

Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Sun Jul 21, 2019 12:09 am

I know where there’s a Junkers Jumo engine if they want it.

Re: Anyone fancy a Stuka!!!!

Sun Jul 21, 2019 4:17 am

wingmanjim wrote:
Jim MacDonald wrote:
old iron wrote:Hey, it has a wheel!


Obviously, Old Iron, you don't have a clue about aircraft restoration. You failed to take into account the complete set of MANUALS included. These are impossible to replicate, extremely rare (practically unobtainium), and will save thousands of hours and many 100,000s of dollars in the restoration. According to the ad, they include, "...hundreds of mainly unpublished pictures of existing Stukas, wrecks and parts, close ups etc., technical documentations of the airframe and engine" and " 1 large file containing a set of drawings of the center section and certain components, re-engineered from existing wrecks and parts".

I daresay, they alone are probably worth the asking price for the whole project.

Mac


No disrespect intended, but since we don't know what the actual price is, that's a rather disingenuous statement. :D


Actually, I was trying to be sarcastic. We need a sarcasm dripping off a voice emoji. Old Iron, no disrespect was intended.

Mac
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