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 Post subject: Re: Fighter Factory
PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 4:47 am 
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Would anyone know which WW I aircraft are full scale and flyable?


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warbirdfinder wrote:
Would anyone know which WW I aircraft are full scale and flyable?


All of them are full scale except for the Sopwith that hung in the museum's lobby. I think all the WWI aircraft are flyable, but I have no idea how often they've been flown.

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At least one of the Nieuports, the Albatros and I think the SE.5a are also scaled down. I was told the 504K with the rotary, hanging in one of the WW2 hangars, was retired because they couldn't keep it running. The one with the radial was said to fly. Some of the Fokkers are 1970s builds and may not have flown in many years.

Would be great to see a Rhinebeck type operation built around those Great War types.

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Mike, assuming you mean the Flug Werk flying example (which isn't an A-3), and not the ex Norwegian A-3 wk.nr.5463
also owned by Jerry. FW190 A-8/N, 990002, ex D-FMFW, N447FW

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Would be great to see a Rhinebeck type operation built around those Great War types.

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Or Rhinebeck buy them all!

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Jerry sold the scaled down replicas some time ago, the Albatros and others are full size (except the little Pup)

(edit) I stand corrected, I see on the list a scale Nieuport and SPAD, he tried to sell them but must have not been able to-



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The WW1 aircraft are flyable. Some flew this year at Flying Proms on June 1. The others flew at Biplanes and Triplanes last fall.

The Mossie is still as the museum as of today and still belongs to the museum so far, only the B-17 and FW190 have been sold, and the Museum is staying open.


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All 24 WWI aircraft are for sale. The lists of all aircraft and projects (everything) are by 'Dutch bid' and these should be announced (to the highest bidders) next week.
All the buildings are for sale too.


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Hopefully the German hangar will be dismantled and rebuilt someplace. Geneseo? Polk City? My backyard?

Whatever happened to the original USAAC Control Tower that Yagen had? Was it ever dismantled and shipped?

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...The Mossie is still as the museum as of today and still belongs to the museum so far, only the B-17 and FW190 have been sold, and the Museum is staying open.


This is what I had gathered as well over the last week. Tons of people posting about Rod Lewis and the Mossie, but have not seen anything about an actual sale...only speculation.



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...Whatever happened to the original USAAC Control Tower that Yagen had? Was it ever dismantled and shipped?


If this is the same one I'm thinking of, it was shipped many months ago and was a bunch of piles of bricks. A few people had been cleaning up the bricks and stacking them on pallets. The pallets and remaining bricks had been moved prior to Warbirds over the Beach, but are still museum property last I knew.

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Hopefully the German hangar will be dismantled and rebuilt someplace. Geneseo? Polk City? My backyard?

Whatever happened to the original USAAC Control Tower that Yagen had? Was it ever dismantled and shipped?



I would swear I saw it out behind where the Lanc was parked. I could be wrong...I was once.

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Yes, that's where some of the bricks were moved to. They were next to the WWI hangar when first delivered.

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An email announcement today stated that the only agreements in place are for the B-17 and the FW as already discussed in previous posts. All others are still for sale and bids are being collected until around July 4th as stated a couple posts ago. There isn't an agreement yet in place regarding the Mossie.
There is a statement that if bids aren't high enough the A/C will not be sold at this time and something will be done in a few months.
The airport is for sale as well.

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The WW1 aircraft are flyable. Some flew this year at Flying Proms on June 1. The others flew at Biplanes and Triplanes last fall.


The Avro 504 that is hanging up is not flyable. One of the Fokker D.VIIs that is being rebuilt in New Hampshire has not flown since the 1970s but should be flyable soon, and one of the Fokker Triplanes has not flown in a long time also. And I'm pretty sure that the Fokker D.VI has only flown twice and I think the last time was in the early '90s. Also, the Albatros has not flown since the '70s (maybe the '80s) in England.

If anybody wants a good one, the Fokker D.VIII is that, I have about 60 hours in it when with the previous owner, flies and performs well, and more comfortable than most WW1 replicas.

It'd be nice if they could all stay there and keep flying, sounds like the story is evolving...



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The more I read on this thread the more my post from last Saturday (on page 2) is almost 100% correct. Just saying.


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