WOW! My top choice of extinct WW2 aircraft (even if it was right at the end).
Better still, it's being restored/rebuilt in flying condition!
Others for me:
Stirling
B-32
Whitley
He177
Warbird you regret the most that there isn't a single surving example of?
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WOW! My top choice of extinct WW2 aircraft (even if it was right at the end).
Better still, it's being restored/rebuilt in flying condition!
Others for me:
Stirling
B-32
Whitley
He177
Crimea_River
Marshal
Okay, gotcha.
So the farmer who made money selling the parts ....and others no doubt, made up a more valuable part than the company in NZ who are spending the money, searching and paying for more parts, going through the frustrations and tribulations of getting what was a non-existent aircraft flying again are just a small part of the ''wish'' .....and are the people who are actually doing the ''rescuing.''.....................
Got your logic. Nice.
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.
Navalwarrior
Staff Sergeant
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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.
AMCKen
Senior Airman
Glider
Major
Thanks for this. It's one of those cases where I am more than happy to be wrong.
Thanks again
David
Crimea_River
Marshal
Ummm...check post 75.
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.
Dunno the story behind it Grant - but I spotted this at HARS last week...
HARS - Historical Aircraft Restoration Society
I'm not sure Grant - by this time the tour guide was tired of me asking questions and wanted to go home.
chipieal
Airman
I find the Tigercat to be an outstanding performer and damn sleek looking to boot. Are any extant?
wuzak
Captain
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.
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pinehilljoe
Staff Sergeant
its looks like a forklift fork went through the fuselage.
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.
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.
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pinehilljoe
Staff Sergeant
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.
