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WW2 Aircraft Blueprints Found

Postby Lianachan » Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:00 pm

This is awesome. Build one!
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Blueprints Found

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:14 pm

WANT!
Get it up ye.
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Blueprints Found

Postby tubeswell » Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:37 pm

Saw one fly at the Masterton Airshow about 4 years back

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Blueprints Found

Postby tubeswell » Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:39 pm

Here is it on the ground

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Blueprints Found

Postby Lianachan » Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:24 pm

Superb photos! Some info about that one, from Wikipedia:

Mosquito FB.26 KA114/N114KA is owned by Jerry Yagen and based at the Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Manufactured in Canada in 1945, KA114 never saw combat in the Second World War and in 1948 was sold to a farmer in Alberta, where it deteriorated in a field until purchased by the Canadian Museum of Flight and Transport in 1978. It was bought by the Military Aviation Museum in 2004. Restoration work was done over an eight-year period by Avspecs Limited in Auckland, New Zealand. Most of the metal parts were reused, and Glyn Powell of Auckland, New Zealand built the new fuselage, wings, and tail sections from wood. It took almost three years to build the wooden airframe. The Mosquito is painted with the markings of 487 Squadron RNZAF as EG-Y in honor of the Royal New Zealand unit flying Mosquitos during WWII. Registered in New Zealand as ZK-MOS the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) issued the aircraft a Certificate of Airworthiness in September 2012. It made its first flight in over 60 years on 29 September at Ardmore Airport near Auckland, New Zealand. It arrived in Virginia Beach in March 2013 and was registered in the United States as N114KA. It received its FAA Certificate of Airworthiness on 30 April 2013.
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Blueprints Found

Postby Arneb » Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:26 pm

What a beauty.
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