World War One replicas??

That doesnt look like a Sopwith Rep to me – more like a Salmson…. ?

TT

Agreed TT, looks like one of those “Gunbus” Salmson replica’s!!

Very nice, Eric! 🙂

The Great War Flying Museum in Brampton, Ontario have a great collection of WWI replicas. All are full scale except one SE-5a. There website is Great War Flying Museum I had the pleasure of flying with them recently and flew in the Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter. Some of the images I captured.

For more images of the GWFM you can view these links

Saturday Dawn Patrol

Sunday Dawn Patrol

GWFM at Geneseo 2006

Happy Landings,

Eric

Here’s the Fokker DR-1 replica owned by the Collings Foundation. According to their website, it is fully flyable and is “available on a restriced basis for airshows in the New England region.”

Harald

That doesnt look like a Sopwith Rep to me – more like a Salmson…. ?

TT

Well Daz they are at the Oakey Army Aviation Museum.S.e. Queensland.

Ant, the Triplane you refer to is the one in my photo in post #24 with the black-and-white striped horizontal tail (later changed to Voss’ colors), 3rd from left. It was owned by Ross Walton in Kentucky, and has since been sold to Javier Arango in California. The web site belonged to Ross, http://www.vintageaerofabrics.com/ , and the listing for the Triplane has been removed since it was sold.

Some time around the new year I stumbled across a web page about a Fokker Triplane replica in the States which stated that the machine was due to be auctioned sometime in May.
The machine in question is a replica of Werner Voss’ pre-production Fokker F.1 103/17, complete with all the F.1 features (eg. convex tailplane leading edges) and powered by an original rotary engine. As such ,it seems to be something a bit special compared to your ‘average’ Triplane replica.
I’d not heard of this machine before, and having googled like mad and hunted high and low for any info on this machine I can’t find that page again and there doesn’t appear to be any other info about it available anywhere.
Can anyone reassure me that this machine actually does exist and that I’m not losing my marbles?:confused: 🙂

There is a Sopwith replica (n 5177) residing in a front garden about a mile from me.

I also enjoyed watchng the Great war display team flying @ fort Nelson about a month ago…

Wow! I’ll need to look out for that! 🙂

http://www.classicfighters.co.nz/ac/ww1.shtml. I’ve heard that Jackson is having many more aircraft built, including building engines from scratch, Hispano-Suizas and Mercedes included. Not to mention the 6 full size Lancaster mock-ups for “Dambusters”…

Also, Javier Arango in California has quite a collection, great photos in a new book: http://www.ghosts.com/ghosts_great_war1.html

There is also an outfit in the Czech Republic that is supposed to have 15 WW1 replicas, Martin Kindernay’s Flying Circus, but their web site doesn’t seem to work any more: www.letajicicirkus.cz/

And the Memorial Flight in France have a terrific web site: http://memorial.flight.free.fr/indexuk.html

Both are still in flyable condition,after a looooot of work may once again,one day.

Whereabouts are they?

What other early warbirds does Peter Jackson have, other than the flock of Triplanes?

Mikael Carlson, of Thulin A (Bleriot XI) and Tummelisa fame, has nearly completed flyable replica of a Fokker D VII. More here: http://www.aerodrome.nu/

Regards,

Jan

What about these old gals

Both are still in flyable condition,after a looooot of work may once again,one day.

One of these, unless I’m very much mistaken:

Thanks Ollie, I got the same response from them a couple of years ago. According to the latest W&R, they had a Noralpha, but it hasn’t been seen since 2004.

Andy

And what is one of them when it is at home? I almost feel like a visit next time i am in those neck of the woods.

The bygone times one was sold on. All they can tell me now is they have something with 2 wings there. I spent a good 30 mins on the phone to them trying to determine what they have now but no one knew.

Thanks Ollie, I got the same response from them a couple of years ago. According to the latest W&R, they had a Noralpha, but it hasn’t been seen since 2004.

Andy

Wash your mouth out with soap and water!!

Yes sir! 😮

But we still had to make do with the “Biggles” film from 1985…. :rolleyes:

Wash your mouth out with soap and water!!

Ita such a shame that the “Biggles” film was never made, it had a great list of replica’s made for it. The 504, a sopwith camel, the two Rumplers and of course our very own BE2.

But we still had to make do with the “Biggles” film from 1985…. :rolleyes: