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New WWII Warbirds

Postby nickle » Tue May 25, 2004 10:01 am

5 ME 262's are under construction in Washington:

http://www.stormbirds.com/project/general/updates.htm

The first flew successfully Fall 03.
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Re: New WWII Warbirds

Postby Felix/FFDS » Tue May 25, 2004 12:21 pm

Also in production/rebuild, Boeing F4B4, F2B ( I think), plus there were a number of Yak-9 new-builds recently in Europe.
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Re: New WWII Warbirds

Postby ozzy72 » Tue May 25, 2004 12:50 pm

There is also a German company making Fw-190s on the original jigs (only the engine is different), and then there are the Marcel Jurca full-sized replicas of the Mustang, Spit, 109, 190, and the three-quarter sized P-40 8)
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Re: New WWII Warbirds

Postby Felix/FFDS » Tue May 25, 2004 2:28 pm

The interesting thing about the Me262 new builds is that they have been authorized Messerschmitt serial numbers, so that technically, they would be new production and not "replicas".
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Re: New WWII Warbirds

Postby ozzy72 » Tue May 25, 2004 2:33 pm

I believe the same rule applies to this German company making the Fw-190s Felix...
Check out http://www.flugwerk.de/new/fw190/fw190.shtm

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Re: New WWII Warbirds

Postby Stratobat » Tue May 25, 2004 4:16 pm

Yak was also making replica Yak-3's a while back, don't know if they're still making them ???

Of course, they wouldn't be replica's seeing that they're still being made by the original company ;D

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