Are we getting a little complacent????
Hold on here guys, how can you possibly say that the sight of a rebuilt Mustang or Spitfire can be boring??????????
Whilst I agree that it would be very nice to see some other types resurected from obscurity it has to be born in mind that Flugwerk have to sell what they produce (just think of the time it’s taken AFC to sell their wonderful Polikapov’s) and no matter what we as die hard enthusiasts feel the P51 is still very much in demand by those paying the bills, by airshow organizers, and by those who attend airshows. The major structures that are proposed could well help an unfortunate P51 that has suffered an accident return to the air.
A few years ago I was involved with a collector in the UK who found it less easy to get airshow bookings for his aircraft because one of them, whilst being a superb pilots aircraft, was relatively unknown, and the other, a Spitfire was painted silver with a dirty great red stripe down the side (and the wings). At the time airshow organizers wanted camo Spit’s hence the bookings went there.
On top of all this in the UK the CAA would be unlikely to let a new production build machine fly here anyway as it won’t have gone through the stringent checks that normal production aircraft have undertaken.
I’m sure there will come a time when we see a wrecked Curtis Hawk fly, but until then when I win the lottery tomorrow, just after I buy a YAK11 I’ll be after a Mustang.
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