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Re: Napier Heston Project
Posted by Tom on Thu Jan 09, 2003 02:34:40 PM
In reply top Re: Napier Heston Project posted by Cees Broere on Thu Jan 09, 2003 02:31:48 AM
They seem a wee bit too confident that a Sabre (or Sabres?) will be found, there are none available and if they were the price would be through the roof seeing as they are as rare as hen's teeth. As for the airframe it will be a costly excersize as with lille info about it available it will take LOTS of re-engineering to make anything substantial. Looking at the Roscoe-Turner and Hughes H1 replicas built recently I'd say they're a wee bit ambitious unless Paul Allen's funding it (maybe an explanation as to where some of the $40 billion went ;) they can't even measure up any original parts and these replicas were both helped by the fact that the original airframes exist. I wish them all the luck in the world as I think they'll need it!
Tom ;)