Mosquito Drawings

Is it possible to scan drawings in the care of IWM?

It would be nice see all Halifax drawings available next to
the Lancaster’s. A friend of mine has all the Lanc’s drawings
and is very enthusiastic about them even if a lot are difficult
to read or very dark.

Cees

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We can convert the tiffs to dxf which most CAD systems will read.

Have to charge a little more but not a problem.

Hello Ian

I have sent you a pm, re. mosquito drawings.

cheers,

I for one would appreciate having Mosquito plans available for purchase.

I am no expert but would presume that there would be just as healthy a market as there is for Lancaster and Spitfire drawings.

What we need is a lawyer that knows the whole regestration/trademark law thing. Is the RAF still attempting to charge anyone who used their roundel? These are wide ranging issues that impact the whole of the historic aviation field. Does one have to have permission to publish the image of an aircraft? Must the RAF get a cut if a roundel is placed on an aircraft? A picture Published? A piece of art done? A toy/model made?

This sounds like the making for an ugly can of worms in which only the lawyers come out on top!

It’s already happening. Some model kits have a seal of approval by Boeing for using their “product”. Hasegawa or Tamiya boxes carry this seal on Mustang kits.

Cees

What we need is a lawyer that knows the whole regestration/trademark law thing. Is the RAF still attempting to charge anyone who used their roundel? These are wide ranging issues that impact the whole of the historic aviation field. Does one have to have permission to publish the image of an aircraft? Must the RAF get a cut if a roundel is placed on an aircraft? A picture Published? A piece of art done? A toy/model made?

This sounds like the making for an ugly can of worms in which only the lawyers come out on top!

the Shuttleworth fly a replica tripehound, etc, and there have been/are other replica aircraft of that vintage on the British register.

Thanks Sea Hawk.. now if only irhudson starts doing AutoCAD drawings :).

Legal issues aside, I think that the sharing of any manuals or drawings is priceless to anyone in this field, so a definie yes!

If you have not done so already, you need to improve the quality of your scanning, it is no good having a parts book, as we did, where some of the numbers and illustrations are not readable.
If you are scanning a poor copy then you should at least warn the buyer that it is not 100%.

Pete

Sea Hawk… but wouldn’t that mean that all these people making 70% 80% & 90% replicas go all the way and build 100% size replicas? i can’t recall but i think there are some other issues especially with replica spits.

Apologies for the delay in replying – just back from a week’s holiday. I believe that you will find that certifying aircraft for flight is a separate issue. The question originally raised was over copying Mosquito drawings and I don’t believe that there is likely to be a copyright infringment issue with copying drawings that are over 50 years old, it just depends on what you do with them… if one simply wants to study them for personal interest or to make models, as one would think would be the case for 99% of prospective purchasers then there is no problem. Similarly if one wanted to build one’s own Mosquito from them and stick it in the back garden then I would have thought that there would be nothing that BA could do about it, even if they wanted to. If one wished to fly it then things might be a bit different…. having said that the Shuttleworth fly a replica tripehound, etc, and there have been/are other replica aircraft of that vintage on the British register.

I would not claim to be a legal expert but my understanding is that under UK law design right protection lasts for 25 years, but if we are talking about copyrighted material, it varies depending on the medium involved (being longest for books at author’s lifetime + 70 years) but is generally 50 years. So I would have thought that the Mosquito drawings would be out of copyright. Hopefully one of the lawyers on the forum can correct me if I am wrong – my wife is no use as she has only ever specialised in employment law and criminal law!

Sea Hawk… but wouldn’t that mean that all these people making 70% 80% & 90% replicas go all the way and build 100% size replicas? i can’t recall but i think there are some other issues especially with replica spits.

I’d be interested in knowing how much interest these drawings might generate.

YES! YES! YES!

I’d definately be interested. Then maybe I could finish this…

Probably quite a bit from lawyers acting for BAE Systems!

I would not claim to be a legal expert but my understanding is that under UK law design right protection lasts for 25 years, but if we are talking about copyrighted material, it varies depending on the medium involved (being longest for books at author’s lifetime + 70 years) but is generally 50 years. So I would have thought that the Mosquito drawings would be out of copyright. Hopefully one of the lawyers on the forum can correct me if I am wrong – my wife is no use as she has only ever specialised in employment law and criminal law!

Probably quite a bit from lawyers acting for BAE Systems!