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Re: UN and Pacific Recoverys

Posted by Mick on Wed Aug 21, 2002 05:17:54 AM

In reply top UN and Pacific Recoverys posted by Rob Rohr on Tue Aug 20, 2002 09:01:49 AM

I have thought about it for a while and i can't see why anyone would bother to go to the trouble of pulling a wreck out of the islands.When there is so much of the stuff around usualy under your verry noses.Anyone who uses original skins formers and ribs from such wrecks,you have to wonder after 60 years of heat ageing.The only things you would use would be forgings and fittings as long as you are willing to bet your life on them.Most if not all of these restos have twins,thats the original aircraft you used for paterns and the one you built using it's identity.There is heaps of new parts around all you have to do is shop around.If you want a P40 ask for a kit from Keneth Hake and try and borrow or buy one of the hundreds of pattern aircraft that are around.We have a few patern aircraft and they are borrowed.We can build heaps of them .The old here is a wheel nut and a photo build me an aircraft.

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