Replica warbirds

Most definitely NOT a Silence ultralight!!

This one fromSkyhawk Photos website.

Any of our New Zealand correspondents wish to add anything about it, or even seen it??

Replica Spitfire XIV

Got sent this one at the weekend – 65hp Rotax, flies at about 130 knots.

Thought it was a German Silence ultralight until….

Replica P-40 anyone??

Again, taken from the Marcel Jurca site.

T-bird – there’s a 3/4 scale one designed by Marcel Jurca. Will that do? 😉

Photo nabbed from the
MJ website.

Long time ago now but my recollections are of G-WULF being ‘light’ and ‘skittish’. It would be interesting to fly the full size version! Flying it at airshows you had to design a sequence that used up as much sky as possible and keeping the cockpit out of profile view to avoid the pilot’s swede looking out of proportion!

I recollect we also had ‘Mike the Pipe’, of somewhere near South london, design a ‘crossover’ exhaust system that did a great deal to eliminate the ‘blat-blat’ sound of the O-200.

Now if someone out there could design a slightly larger one to comfortably handle my investment in Director’s Bitter over the years……

When I get back to UK I’ll try and dig out some photo’s.

Questions,do they handle the same and what are the power – weight ratios compared to the originals TA

It’s all a long time ago now but as one of the syndicate owning G-WULF way back I was ALWAYS nervous of that worm gear spinning away during undercarriage extension/retraction just inches away from ones appendages!

Excuse the digression however I remember going up to see a mate at Castle Don (refuse to call it EMA!) way back when it wasn’t a big drama to land at an airport. Spent a very pleasant lunch with him and on departure he loaded every nook and cranny of the cockpit with brown paper bags full of tomatos from his greenhouse – there was not a lot of space in the cockpit I can assure you! I laughed myself sick on the way down when the thought crossed my mind ” I wonder what the pathologist will think if I come to a very sudden stop in this thing……..”

Daz,

It is a long time ago and I am not 100% but I am sure my kids used to play with one of these in the bath. 🙂

Mark

How about a Thunder Mustang looks great although a bit expensive;)

site:http://www.thundermustang.com/

Last one from me for now, taken from this website:
www.travell.uk.net/airshow/ shoreham98.html

WAR P-47 Thunderbolt, again 100hp Continental.

How about a Mustang? Another WAR bird, I think with a 120hp engine.

See http://www.jabiru.co.uk/spitbuild.html for build photos of the first UK Mk26

WAR FW190 – 100hp Continental again

Spitfire 26

Oh, go on then…! 😉

WAR half-scale Zero – Continental again.

WAR half-scale Sea Fury – 100hp Continental

Mk26? I want one! 😡