Warbird Information Exchange

Does anyone have any experience with W.A.R. replica homebuilt aircraft? I'm seriously considering building one of their 1/2 scale P-47s, possibly with some slight modifications. It would be tremendously expensive, but I'd love to put a Rotec 3600 150hp 9-cylinder radial on it. In any case, if you've had any experience with one of the W.A.R. aircraft, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the designs. Thanks!

Zack

Have you ever sat in one? They are quite small inside.

bdk wrote:Have you ever sat in one? They are quite small inside.

No I haven't (do you know someone that has one?). Hence the slight modifications. That's the great thing about amateur built experimental aircraft - you can build them to fit you. I don't think it would be too different from the guys building wide bodied Pietenpols. I HAVE had a ride in the front seat of a Piet before at Brodhead. That was was fun! I don't think it would affect the design too much to widen the box fuselage of a W.A.R. Jug out a bit.

Zack

Zachary,

There is a Yahoo groop for W.A.R. Aircraft replicas.
I am sure you can find someone on there board near you, so you can check out there aircraft.

I have a W.A.R. F4U, corsair kit (but have not had time to begin working on it).
I need to rebuild my Yak-52, L-5 & PT-19 before I build the Corsair.

Not enough time in the day
Avn-Tech

Aren't there a few that come every year to Oshkosh? I sat in one there many years ago. There is also one you can sit in at the Museum of Flight in Seattle in their kid's museum, but it has a filler piece on the seat for kids so an adult can't fit all the way in.

Ross Grady of Canada, used to bring a couple of small replica warbirds to Osh. I am not sure, they may not have been WAR,but I seem to recall it was a P-40 and a P-47, he also owned the P-51 WHATS UP DOC. He said they were a little tricky to land.

A guy at Steamboat Springs, Co, build a WAR, I think a Corsair. It looked pretty good, but he only flew it once, and scared himself. I think he sold it. He was not an experinced pilot, don't know if his experience is much of a barometer.

Beside landing speed and handing on landing, some replicas have had overheating problems.

Have you thought about one of the Loehle light replica P-40, P-51, or Spitfire?

Was Ross Grady's a B-model or a D-model? I had seen a few different ones over the years at Oshkosh.

http://members.shaw.ca/falconark/FA/mustang.htm

Maybe someone in the Replca Fighters Association could help you?

http://replicafighter.org/wp/contact-us

Replica Fighters Association
PMB 111
1528 S. Koeller
Oshkosh, WI 54902

If you mean Ross's full size P-51, it was D, one of the military ones bought from the Dominican Republic, and he kept the older and worn, but authentic paint job.

I thought the Ross Grady replicas were built from Jurca plans?

Ross owned a genuine North American P-51D, I think it was "What's Up Doc" and came from the Dominican Republic direct from military use there.

Ross also, I believe had a couple of replica warbirds, I think one may have been a P-40, and/or P-51 and/or P-47. I don't know if these were Jurca or WAR. I think they were fairly small, not too sure.