Gooday All

What is becoming very clear from this thread is there is a lot of old wives tales around, a distinct lack of hard facts and it is a very interesting topic.

I think my coke can was once a Spitfire, my Auster definately better heritiage, at least a FW190

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Gooday

This thread is becoming an eye opener if what has been said is any near true.

That a crashed aeroplane wasn’t used as a source of metal to build a new aeroplane.

This just doesn’t seem correct. A metal casting for say some wing fittings wouldn’t be thrown in the melting pot with other similar castings and then was NOT used to cast new similar new fittings.

Some of the answers offered just don’t seem correct.

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Goooday All

Yes I can choose a much better aeroplane than a Spitfire, I think I will choose a FW 190 !

forget the pots and pans stuff, that’s a distraction.

My point is “were post war aeroplanes made from WW2 aircraft scrap”, I think the metal from recovered crashed aeroplanes during WW2 was used to build new ones.

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G’day all

the attached images of a reproduction spitfire will provide the answer, I am told the aircraft name and markings are correct, so those of you who know about such things can tell us the details of the squadron. The other image is of the power plant installation in another Spitfire reproduction, there were 4 Spitfires in the hangar when I was there.

The Cessna comes into it only because people say the Spitfire had a narrow undercarriage, but you don’t hear that about the C172 that most pilots are familar with?

Having said that, the question is still out there and is a good one to think about (after all; we have the combined intelligence of the world ponding questions on this forum – smiles)

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