New Baby Warbird

[GregP]

Had a neat thing happen late last week. Steve Hinton's Fighter Rebuilders got a new baby warbird on its feet.

1) Here is the fuselage on Wednesday last week:

2) Here is one inner wing stub:

3) Here is Friday, lining the pieces up:

4) Here is Friday, all three pirces joined, and on the gear:

5) A better shot:

So, the world is well on its way to a new baby Grumman F7F Tigercat.

 

[Alex .]

Hope you continue to update, Greg, this is awesome! To what scale is it if it's a 'baby'? Looks pretty impressive already.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

EXCELLENT NEWS! And Great photos of a great aircraft!(just my opinion)

 

[GregP]

The scale is 1:1 since this is a real Grumman Tigercat being restored for a private owner.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Just beautiful!

 

[Alex .]

The scale is 1:1 since this is a real Grumman Tigercat being restored for a private owner.

Oh...

 

[MikeGazdik]

Hang a couple of turboprops on there and you could market that as a "new" design. Those babies were sweet!

 

[vikingBerserker]

You know, she really would looked beautiful in a natural metal finish.

 

[Gnomey]

Very cool!

 

[Glider]

Very cool!

Not quite the responce I had in mind

 

[GregP]

I'll take the elf any day ...

 

[Alex .]

Probably cost as much to 'fund' too

 

[vikingBerserker]

...and requires more maintenance!

 

[GregP]

Sex is a trick of nature,
it makes a man a fool,
it takes away his money,
and wears away his tool!

 

[Alex .]