What i mean is those at legends and the rest around the world will have original engines obviously overhauled several times and landing gear/wings etc etc.
But in a percentage roughly how much is one original? im sure they all differ i’ll use pl965 spitfire the one that used to be at breighton how much is original?
Can wings from a 1944 spit be used today if not corroded? aswell as other parts? does it have to have a certain amount of original parts to not call it a new build?
By: CanberraA84-232 - 19th July 2009 at 01:26
It can be very litttle, infact one of the ones built at East Midlands Airport in the past the only original airframe parts was one leading edge and the data plate I believe, some indeed will come down to the data plate……….. It is very difficult to nail down an aircraft as “NEW” or rebuilt as in its service life it could and would have had wings, engines, rear ends and skins rebuilt or replaced, therefore the argument is none will be 100% original, even in Service.
However on the other Extreme Rolls-Royce’s MK19 that was built in the last years of the war has never had a major rebuild through out its life. It will have gone through overhauls etc, but taking it back to component parts and rebuilding it, it has not had that done. so is nearly original, well bar the Engne which is a hybrid based on a Shack unit with the gearing off I think a Firefly thrown in the front of it to convert it to a single prop, but looking at the wings, sometime in the past it lost its original fuel filler caps that were round for a different type.
Well said Tony
By: TonyT - 18th July 2009 at 10:04
It can be very litttle, infact one of the ones built at East Midlands Airport in the past the only original airframe parts was one leading edge and the data plate I believe, some indeed will come down to the data plate……….. It is very difficult to nail down an aircraft as “NEW” or rebuilt as in its service life it could and would have had wings, engines, rear ends and skins rebuilt or replaced, therefore the argument is none will be 100% original, even in Service.
However on the other Extreme Rolls-Royce’s MK19 that was built in the last years of the war has never had a major rebuild through out its life. It will have gone through overhauls etc, but taking it back to component parts and rebuilding it, it has not had that done. so is nearly original, well bar the Engne which is a hybrid based on a Shack unit with the gearing off I think a Firefly thrown in the front of it to convert it to a single prop, but looking at the wings, sometime in the past it lost its original fuel filler caps that were round for a different type.
By: JDK - 18th July 2009 at 09:54
It’s a bit of a FAQ, really. Have a browse on the forum, perhaps under ‘originality’, ‘provenance’ or ‘replica’. You’ll find the same argument in twenty different outfits quite quickly.
By: piston power! - 18th July 2009 at 09:49
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