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Re: Centre section, big deal...? No, essential!

Posted by Paul Coggan on Fri Oct 04, 2002 02:53:09 PM

In reply top Centre section, big deal...? posted by Phil Earthey on Fri Oct 04, 2002 01:59:07 PM

Phil Says

"If however, I had the bird's original engine mount, cowlings, rear fuslage, tail feathers, wing centre section, outer wings, U/C etc, etc, but a new cockpit framework, would it no longer be that aeroplane???

Me thinks it would!

Paul Says

But if someone else had the centre section i.e. bathtub for the Harvard who would have the aeroplane then Phil? Furthermore if you had all the bits EXCEPT the bathtub and they had that piece I can see an ownership dispute coming on here.....

For years and years and years (even before I was a lad) the centre section carried the identity -- and has pretty much always been used by historians (again, this goes back a LONG way!)

You know my opinions. More recently individuals seem to be moving the goal posts, particularly where it suits them to do so. I find it hard to tell someone that has just spent years and lots of dosh recovering an airframe that they didn't need to do that.......

Also. I note in another post someone else changed one person's post that described the aircraft in question from 'reconstruction' to 'reproduction'. That was very interesting - the two are different, imho of course.

On a different subject I notice how even fibreglass structures in the form of a warbird are being called 'Replicas'. Like the Feggans Brown Spitfire and Hurricanes (I am guilty of this too) - but are they really replicas? Me thinks NOT! Full scale models perhaps.

Who cares a twopenny damn I hear lots of people say. Many people expressed concern when the revisionists try and rewrite the history books. What is happening here is not much different.
Watch the flak start flying (with the writs too perhaps) when we start talking about dual identities!!!

Just my Euro's worth...........

cordially

Paul

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