Beech 18?

Except for its standing now on (almost) flat tires, the photograph on Wikipedia of the same aircraft dated 2006 shows it in substantially the same condition (albeit on wheel axle stands)…

A patent only confers rights in the country or countries where it has been granted, so if the Boeing 314 was built, sold and operated where Dornier did not have a patent, then no problem. Moreover, what at a first glance look like the same thing is often not so. All depends on the wording of the patent.

I’m aware of the status regarding Hunters, of course.

I’m out of my comfort zone here too, what is this status (presumably linked to the Shoreham accident)?

Europe, there’s some Vamps/Venoms in Scandanavia and Switzerland, a couple of Hunters in Scandanavia and Switzerland, the Lansen, Draken and Viggen in Sweden with the SAFHF, a Starfighter now airworthy in Norway and at least one Mig 15 in Scandanavia as well.

Isn’t the J29 Tunnan in Sweden still airworthy? Flying Bulls in Salzburg/Austria also has a couple of airworthy Alpha Jets. Isn’t a Mirage still airworthy in Switzerland? There’s also a couple of Aero L-39 flying in (continental…) Europe, an L-29 in Denmark and there must be some Magisters in France.

No, there is indeed no harm in letting them try. But to have the audacity to welcome donations from other people for their dream, is, to put it mildly, cheeky for such a grossly unrealistic undertaking. In other words, they are not putting their money where their mouth is. Might as well throw the money out of the window, or even better, donate it to something which a chance of succeeding. There are presumably also people reading that website who do not know what it is that they are throwing their money at!

This is not just a case of online nitpicking, but simply pure facts from someone who has been actively involved in aircraft restorations (= time donation) and who has actually donated money to a realistic project. I do however shake my head when I read the enthusiastic outbursts in this thread regarding the perceived prospect of an additional flying B-17…

The comparison with the magnificent Halifax replica is not valid. This was never intended to be airworthy, so compromises could be made, and large chunks of structural components were or became available. All in all, a realistic project.

And still nobody has answered the question regarding whether it is at all possible to operate an experimental, homebuilt aircraft of this size; which is what it is going to be in the unlikely case that it’s completed, as it has no identity or provenance….

If the P-40F is taking off in the photos above, what an enormous flap deflection!

Great pics as always, many thanks to the “correspondents”!

More likely a Rotax 912…