Replica WW2 aircraft

[m10bob]

Somebody mentioned in another thread replica WW2 aircraft being built..


Here is a Texas factory producing Nakajima "Oscar" aircraft..

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/articles/oscar/


Named this thread so others might add other planes to the catalog??

For economy sake, I have always been keen to see those "3/4" scale replicas show up at air shows, etc..

[dr.hal]

The site could use updating, as it indicates that the first Oscar flight will take place "...by the end of 2003." Does anyone have an update?

[crsutton]

I remember these from around 2009..http://www.stormbirds.com/project/

[wdolson]

Some things I found...

The Fw-190 project (site is in German)
http://www.flugwerk.de/html/page.php?GID=19&SID=4

A guy building a one of Spitfire:
http://www.spitfireaircraftco.com/

After the cold war ended, someone found an abandoned Yak factory in Russia that still had all the tooling to build Yak-3s. Yakovlev restarted production of them using Alison engines which are about the same size as the original, but geared to spin the prop in the opposite direction. A number have been sold as Yak-3M.

I've read that there are several builders making authentic replicas of WW I aircraft. Though I would expect the engines are somewhat different.

Bill

[Reg]

The Vintage Aviator build WWI aircraft...
http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/topic/projects/aircraft

and they do the engines too...
http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/topic/projects/engines

[Reg]

A somewhat tongue in cheek comment on aircraft restoration costs.....

Original New Zealand Seat filling...