Warbird you regret the most that there isn't a single surving example of?

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Don't bend my words. I didn't say they were "more valuable". My post was meant to point out that there were many individuals involved in getting to this point, and that it's not the entire country of New Zealand which is "rescuing" the aircraft. The companies involved do nice work and I look forward to the day this machine takes to the air.
 
pbehn said:
The thing I find staggering is that there is only one prototype, you would think companies would keep them for P/R or teaching reasons.
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Agree. I know of one Allison Mustang (A-36A ?) that survived due to being retained at a school for teaching. Several fuselages of the Dauntless survived for decades at a movie prop storage area.
 
ktank said:
Unfortunately it's in the Camden Museum of Aviation near Sydney which has been closed to the public for some years
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Yes, dammit. I contacted one of the guys involved asking for a wee look around during a visit to Sydney a couple of years ago and he refused me. Bit of a downer. The museum also has a war weary Beaufighter, as well as other interesting bits including large sections of a Lincoln.
 
Hm, that's interesting. Is that 'Beau-Guns Ville'? That bodes well. It would be nice to see them do the same with the Vengeance. I was there the last time I was in Sydney, that hadn't arrived, but its nice to see. HARS is great.
 
nuuumannn said:
Hm, that's interesting. Is that 'Beau-Guns Ville'? That bodes well. It would be nice to see them do the same with the Vengeance. I was there the last time I was in Sydney, that hadn't arrived, but its nice to see. HARS is great.
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I'm not sure Grant - by this time the tour guide was tired of me asking questions and wanted to go home.
 
A Stuka undertaking dive bombing at air shows would be amazing. if I was a tech billionaire I'd fund dive bombing hell divers, Stukas, Vals etc.
 
There is one at the Paul Allen Flying Heritage Collection in Everett Washington being restored to flying condition. Almost all planes in that museum fly during summer months.
 
Too many to even list.
Yeah, hindsight is 20/20, but it would have been nice if, even now, more foresight was used, like with the B-26 "Flak Bait." Think of all the true "time capsules" there could have been. You always read about "saved" aircraft that were later scraped, because of storage space. I'm sure places like Davis-Monthan could have easily handled tucking away a lot of crated aircraft at an out of the way area without infringing on base activities in the least.
Even without any preservation measures, simply disassembled, crated aircraft, stored for decades, would be far better then "wreck recovery." I'm not saying these wrecks shouldn't be recovered, nor am I trying to take anything away from those dedicated individuals that rebuild them. I'd just find a 100% original aircraft in it's just uncrated from storage state far more historically interesting then a 5% mix and match of original parts attached to 95% new build parts, pristene replica at an air show. As meticulous as a rebuild/restoration may be, its individual historical significance is lost.
Just my 2¢ worth.
 
pbehn said:
The thing I find staggering is that there is only one prototype, you would think companies would keep them for P/R or teaching reasons.
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the paper work may have been enourmous in the US. When a prototype was built on contract with US government funds it was invariably government property. After delivery and testing, it was government property. It probably remained a hangar queen until a bureaucrat officer said get it out of here and scrapped.
 
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