Actually although they aren’t in any way the genuine article, these new builds created around a salvaged data plate serve a very important purpose. The real things with proper provenance can be retired to museums for their protection while the reproductions can take their place in the risky world of air shows. I don’t have any real problems with that. I remember some years back one year in which IIRC we lost two airworthy Mosquitos – sheer bloody waste. And I hope that crowd who keep building and wrecking Blenheims finally get their act together with the current Mk1 reproduction and treat it with a bit more care.

The other point is that so many of the current examples flying, that have provenance have been repaired/serviced/rebuilt so many times by now that they are a bit like the fabled “original” hammer that’s had five new heads and three new handles but is still the “genuine” original.

Frankly I think don’t think anyone wealthy enough to fork out the large amount of money needed to purchase and fly one of these reproductions would be silly enough to be conned into believing that the new build is the genuine article.

However for the sake of historical accuracy these aircraft should be pretty well defined in the record as copies/reproductions just to put them in perspective. In any case without them airshows would be pretty dull.

If anyone was wondering why I didn’t post it here. 😎

Gave me a good chuckle – especially the oh so true description of Aussies.

🙂

Would this have hit the bulls eye??

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093499/Hitlers-pub-dart-bomb-The-secret-Nazi-weapon-drawn-terrorise-Britain.html

Yet another world beater from the Napkinwaffe. 😀

So we are talking mass (weight) balancing instead of aerodynamic balancing such as the rudders of aircraft like the Fokkers, Nieuports, Avros etc. Seems a rather thin dividing line as the former seems to be a development of the latter.

Malcolm says its quite well documented – can you post any further references please?

Your best refs are any works on WW2 US schemes by Dana Bell. Look them up on Google.

These sandy pink schemes are, I assure you, as well known as the standard US Olive Drab over Neutral Grey.

Beware however of the old Aircam publication on the P40 because it makes a similar mistake that people who have interpreted the upper colour as grey have done, which is fail to note the demarcation line between the upper sandy pink and the lower light blue. In B/W photos both have the same tonal quality and accordingly the Aircam artist depicted the P40 as sandy pink all over.

A further suggestion is that you ask these sorts of questions on one of the aircraft modelling forums – such as http://www.clubhyper.com/forums/forum.htm

I have noticed over the years that while this is an excellent forum for technical and historical questions, matters such as correct colour schemes etc. seem to be little discussed, while they are life’s blood to modellers.

Lets try this one, might be quite easy but lets see!

Is that a Slingsby built SE5A replica? – I don’t think its a modified Tiger Moth.

Most countries have laws which stipulate the time that must elapse before any published work runs out of copyright and goes into the public domain. It is best to check and see what your local laws are. If a work is out of copyright then you may republish it without permission. But it is good manners to cite the original source anyway – not only to prove your honesty but also to acknowledge the original author. If you don’t you might quite innocently draw upon yourself charges of plagiarism, which you don’t want if you are to be taken seriously.

Copying of published work is permissable so long as it is for private non-profit use or is part of research, but if you are seeking to republish it either in whole or in part then it’s a different thing. Normally if part of a work is used by reference or by quote in another publication then one must cite the source, author etc. It also considered mandatory that if a large part of a published work which is still under copyright is quoted in entirety it is not only correctly cited but permission must be obtained from the publishers who hold the copyright.

The same rules apply to photographs etc.

In the case of government publications you need to check with your own government authorities. Just because a publication has had its security classification removed does not mean that it is automatically in the public domain and may be republished freely. But if you were using it as a reference in your own separate research then simple citation of source may suffice.

The freedom of access to the internet has eroded these restrictions in many people’s minds but nevertheless the internet is no different to hard copy publication and the same rules apply.

Basically it comes down to good manners and not stealing the intellectual property of others.

And always make sure that if you are seeking permission to republish something get the approval, if you receive it, in writing – this will protect you if any problem might arise. A simple yes over the phone is easily denied.