The list is somewhat out of date. At least 2 of those listed as ‘under restoration’ have flown, at least one listed as ‘airworthy’ has been parked up for quite a few years now. And didn’t the German one get broken last year?

What happened to the projected book JDK? :diablo:

I suggest you go back and read post # 190 for an answer to your question.

Piece of Cake was filmed several years before Perfect Hero, not the other way around. They were entirely separate paint schemes.

Somewhere here is a thread listing all the paint schemes MH434 has worn in preservation, with photos.

Did anyone else recognise the new sheet metal work on the Bearcat next to the exhausts?

Polished stainless steel, not new metal work

There are many different types of Dr1 replica, with varying degrees of accuracy. There have been no running Oberursel engines for many years, so the similar Le Rhone has been used in quite a few replicas. However, The Vintage Aviator in New Zealand are now building new Oberursels.

http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/oberursel-engine/oberursel-ur-ii-rotary-engine-build-history

Most of the replicas flying nowadays are ‘lookalikes’ of varying degrees of accuracy, from modern plans with either flat-4 engines Lycoming with mocked-up rotary cylinders, or Warner radials. Various plan sets are available, from Ron Sands and Walt Redfern in the US, and Achim Engels in Germany. Being homebuilts, some Fokker replicas are very nice indeed, some are not so good.

It’s a ‘bitsa’.

The original aircraft crashed. It was later rebuilt, basically using a new airframe and the existing paperwork, and now flies as ‘Voodoo’. The left-over crashed bits were later cobbled together with other parts into this static restoration for the RAF Museum.

I’ve heard they let no one in there hanger

That must make it very hard to get the restorations done.

The Leopard Moth looks stunning, what I’d do for a flight in that….

Well, you could just go along to the Moth Club Charity Flying Days……….