mustangdriver wrote:
August, You don't feel that the fact that Doolittle and gang flew the plane at all cool? It is the closest to a Doolittle Raider as you are going to get unless someone restores the B in storage as a Doolitle raider. You mention the Collings Foundation B-25, which is also one that I enjoy, and spent many hours with. But it is not correct either.
If it never was one of the Doolittle Raiders, it will never be one. Therefore, if it represents one, its not authentic at all. Sure, its cool that Doolittle did fly it at some point, but if it wasn't aboard the USS Hornet, and launch for Japan April 18 1942, its disqualified as being a Raider. Considering all of the real Raider B25s crashed aside from 40-2242, which was interned in Primorsky Krai, USSR, the odds that any survive are unlikely.
On that note, are there even any B25s that survive as the aircraft they were built as and flown as, rather than depicting an aircraft they never were? In my book "Authentic" means restored in a way the preserves the history of that specific airframe. Doesn't matter how its painted, as long as it represents some point of that aircrafts unique history and no other's. If the aircraft doesn't represent the aircraft it actually is, it doesn't matter how mechanically correct the rest of it is. Its incorrectly restored, and therefore not authentic.
Will
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