Hi All,
TonyT,
I was thinking along the lines of how far you can take an aircraft replica to the point of being potentially airworthy if somebody would inject some money
into whatever project at a later date, i.e. with NX611 now on the rd to airworthiness.

(This is just me)Take the ‘Whirlwind Project’ as an example would the extra expense of having items replicated to airworthy standard rather than
a static replica be worth it ? Is there a vast difference in cost ? I imagine that you would use the same type of metals as you obviously want the
airframe to last ? I say this bearing in mind (Beermat please put me right) you are wanting it to be ground run ?

Well NX611 was a ground runner and look where they are going now, this is after the brothers told me:-

“If it was made airworthy then it had an accident they would lose everything they worked so hard for as a memorial to their brother ‘Chris’ so they just keep ground running her for that reason.”

Wouldn’t it save a lot of time and money replacing any static replica items to airworthy standard items with airworthy from the start ? So if circumstances
changed in the future the aircraft could be airworthy as has been done with NX611 ? I assume the main reason this would not be done is as you state
the cost is a vast between airworthy parts and materials as apposed to static parts and materials, along with the time it would actually lengthen any
project completion, No harm in dreaming about what if’s eh! ?…..:rolleyes:

Geoff.