By high standards I mean having custom cloth wire no longer available within the aerospace industry recreated and then marked with a wire marking machine. Not necessarily over-restored, but restoration to a no-compromise level of authenticity.
Other things like the Me-262 engines had new turbine blades manufactured out of modern longer-life alloys. Not so much over-restored, but rebuilt to achieve a more modern level of safety, reliability and longevity.
JohnB wrote:
bdk wrote:
His demands were high and aircraft were being restored to standards beyond what had previously been done.
Sounds a bit like what the collector car world calls "over restored", that is making something
too perfect.
I base that after seeing photos of some of the B-17 components that were restored before that project got put aside.
The photos showed very bright polished metal and workmanship better than what the aircraft had when it rolled out of Boeing's Plant #2.
I'm not sure of the accuracy of making a wartime German type a paragon of perfection considering they were being hastily assembled by a probably demoralized workforce (possibly slave labor) being subjected to round-the-clock bombing.
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