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I think FlugWerk already has this one nailed....
Posted by Jim on Sun Mar 24, 2002 03:04:25 PM
In reply top If you were a hard nosed businessman posted by Paul McMillan on Sun Mar 24, 2002 06:49:22 AM
Build a replica of one of the best Luftwaffe fighters (Fw190), none of which have been seen in the air since the mid-1940s, and make them in sufficient numbers to be marketable. A similar new-build powerplant is available in sufficient quanities to make the project worthwhile as well. Don't know if the Chinese-made radial can replicate the sound of the BMW radial, but at least one original Fw190 is soon to be airborne for that effect.
As for my person preference, Fw190Ds come to mind if enough powerplants could be rounded up--unlikely as that might seem. Or use any available DB motors in a D-14 variant that's much safer to operate than an Me109.
: Just looking at P-26 reproductions and a thought occurred
: to me..
:
: Regardless of what you actually like, or would like to see
: .. What would you actually build as far as replicas go.. W
: hat do you think the market could sustain and would actual
: ly purchase??