Are planes all a bit boring looking now ?
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RoverP6B said:
That's a bit more like it. It's still fugly, though. Bring back the Lightning, I say...
I grew up near RAF Coltishall and can remember the Lightnings. Awesome things: two bloody great engines strapped together with a chair bolted to the front. Their takeoff procedure was awesome: engage afterburner, belt down runway, liftoff at normal angle, retract undercarriage, point nose at sky...I was thinking, now shoot me down if i'm talking mince.
is it possible to take a classic design and have somebody make a bespoke aircraft ( I understand it would be cripplingly expensive) but something like a B24 liberator but with modern stuff as a high class luxury airliner?
Could it be done?, How much? and why arent people doing it?
Benzo
is it possible to take a classic design and have somebody make a bespoke aircraft ( I understand it would be cripplingly expensive) but something like a B24 liberator but with modern stuff as a high class luxury airliner?
Could it be done?, How much? and why arent people doing it?
Benzo
Captain Benzo said:
I was thinking, now shoot me down if i'm talking mince.
is it possible to take a classic design and have somebody make a bespoke aircraft ( I understand it would be cripplingly expensive) but something like a B24 liberator but with modern stuff as a high class luxury airliner?
Could it be done?, How much? and why arent people doing it?
Benzo
Full size replicas of older aircraft have been made many times - but admittedly nothing as big and hefty as a Liberator. The World War 1 aircraft built by Peter Jackson's company come to mind as does then batch of new build Messerschmitt 262s. The problem is engines. In order for the true character of the original to be retained, you really do need to have original type engines, or an engine very close in performance and characteristics to the original. is it possible to take a classic design and have somebody make a bespoke aircraft ( I understand it would be cripplingly expensive) but something like a B24 liberator but with modern stuff as a high class luxury airliner?
Could it be done?, How much? and why arent people doing it?
Benzo
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