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Cutting it fine

Posted by Gregory on Sat Aug 31, 2002 10:24:26 AM

In reply top Re: Confused. posted by PeterA on Sat Aug 31, 2002 06:51:05 AM

Peter -

I agree that very few aircraft flying today are 100% what they were when they left the factory and Alex Henshaw took them up for a test flight.

However, at the risk of repeating myself, I think that the overriding criteria must be continuity - the tracing of an unbroken line from factory onwards. I wouldn't say that the resparring of MH434 a few years back makes it a replica, but surely a brand new fuselage with most of a firewall with provenance is something in a different league altogether.

Or, to put it differently, would any of us say that incorporating an original "bathtub" cockpit in a brand new Me 262 airframe would allow a reasonable claim to it being an original airframe?

Continuity, it's all about continuity. Price, value and collectability notwithstanding.

Gregory

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