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Fire in the hole!

Posted by Scott WRG Editor on Tue Jun 18, 2002 06:22:30 PM

As has been recently seen on this discussion forum, the conflict between Restoration versus replica rages on and is a very hotly contested subject. We each have our own opinions, none more valuable than any other. Knowing this, I have this question that will probably aggravate the situation further .

Taking as a given that a piece of a historically significant aircraft allows that project to assume the identity of the aircraft the piece originally came from. (shhhh...wait for it)

How would you go about deriving the identity of an aircraft with more than one donor aircraft? I'm sure that there are aircraft out there with more than one source for the parts that made it whole? How do you judge this? Does the number of parts define the identity? The size of the parts? The weight? How would this work?

As i've stated before my personal belief is the center section is the heart of the aircraft and defines it. But this is my opinion. What's Yours?

Scott

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