Snibble -The Flycatcher is a fine replica -however it always relied on a P&W R-985 engine for motive power ! Nowhere near as nice as an Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar in terms of originality !

Happy to be corrected on that, I was under the impression it was fitted with a correct Bristol Jupiter. The example still holds good in that John Fairey’s name alone makes it more authentic than any of the reborn Luftwaffe.

Let’s be clear, by the way, that this is not a “Focke-Wulf FW-190” but a replica. I’m sorry he hurt his airplane, but I’m sorrier that the line between real and imaginary is increasingly being blurred in this age of data-plate specials, homebuilt replicas and other make-believe wannabes. There are Ferraris and ferraris, and there are Focke-Wulfs and focke-wulfs.

Without losing sight of the fact that a lovely aeroplane got bent, I have to agree with this quote. I got ripped to shreds once for voicing the opinion that the new build Me 262s aren’t “real” Me 262s. A good example is the Fairey Flycatcher in the FAA museum, built to original blueprints using a number of original parts, crucially, the correct engine and actually built for John Fairey. No one claims this to be anything other than a replica.
For me its about the raison d’etre for the machine. An Fw 190 was a fighter built to defend the Nazi reich, build one as a rich man’s toy and airshow performer and you have not built a fighter.
This doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to see it, but I would be fully aware that it’s just a big model.

Never heard of it! What a brute of an aircraft but leaps into the air.

Hello everybody. Yes new member 1st post, hello etc, etc.
I don’t buy the bench clamp. It looks made to slip off and makes the channel in the lower pedestal redundant. The radial grooves are I think air channels from the casting process. I suspect the lower part slides into an aperture and the screw used to compress something to allow fitment, removal or adjustment of some component through the hole. It would have been cheaper stamped from steel and I think it’s brass to be spark proof suggesting fuel or explosive. It may not be a tool for routine use but perhaps for contingency. Extracting a jammed round or link perhaps?