Did you get anywhere with the Instrument manuals Harold?

Spitfire Anoraks disputing the finer details of Mitchell’s baby!

Can’t beat it.

😉

Jings! How many bits do you think made it back into the latest incarnation Mark12?

Restoring some of the basket case airframes flying today would have been considered monumental folley not so many years ago, proposing to manufacture new build FW 190’s would have had you locked up in a dark unlit grey mansion house under the constant attention of men in white coats also.

Never understimate the powers of determination, a vision, will power and the assistance of modern engineering and the related manufactururing techniques.

New build Mosquitos?

Me 262’s?

A Beaufighter?

New engine components?

New crankshafts?

New build rare engines?

The only limit is your imagination.

Excess money will always find a home. 😀

I met a man last year in Germany whose company is in the process of embarking upon remanufacturing complete DB601’s and 5’s.

I went through with him in a lot of detail about some of the modern manufacturing processes that he has already and will employ to reproduce some of the large formerly cast major components, which used to be considered as impossibly unecconomic to reproduce on a small production scale basis. i.e. heads, crankcases etc. He won’t be milling them out of soild bar either! as that could never replicate blind cores within some of these types of components.

Should be very interresting times ahead.

This is not April the 1st…..just for the record.

Gentlemen,

Please give our keen newcomer a break!

If the hallowed inner sanctum of the Flypast Magic Circle are so annoyed at ‘ordinary’ people daring to ask such horrific questions, which may seem so mundane and oft repeated to those with the ‘inside’ knowledge, then why don’t you set up an FAQ so that these new people don’t bother you with subjects that you consider as petty, inappropriate, frivolous and pedantic?

Consider topics in your FAQ such as. Study your Warbirds books for five years before you dare to post a question. Don’t talk about Spitfires…

Your responses hardly encourage new blood into the industry, for which long term survival, interest in it depends.

I like this forum and most of the contributors, but some of you act like a stuffy bunch of insular grey haired old men who have been confined to the smokey drawing room of your London club for too long.

What will be or not be at Legends or any other display next year is up for grabs in any discussion and at any time as far as I am concerned.

Give him a break…………………..

You could of course exercise your right of silence if you don’t like a post? 😀

Looking at these images from ’44 just makes you wonder where we would be today if German engineering had been able to continue unabated at the pace they had established way way back then. They were leaps and bounds ahead of the Americans and Soviets.

Stealth, swept wings, axial flow gas turbines , variable geometery and of course modern guided rocketry (which hasn’t change all that much today other than digital control)

This is of course puting aside for a moment the few unsavioury individuals who tarnished the reputations of their nations best.

Have to admit that my new German table saw and planing machine puts the competition in the shade for quality, simplicity and function.

Pity we can’t take a world lead in much manufacturing ourselves anymore these days…….

Now that the hilarious jokes are out of the way…….. Did anyone have anything to add to the ‘serious’ picture idea?