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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Aircraft ... 088wt_1064

Looks like a lot of development work for the opening bid.

...but does it fly?

I think it's kind of hideous (especially the paint job). After looking at the pictures of the structure and workmanship, you wouldn't get me in it.

$5 it shakes apart on take-off!

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book

I'm with 96 on this one, imagine one or boaf of them pew-whick engines sucking a valve er two....na... watch at a distance and I mean from a grrrrrrrreeeeeeeaaaaaaaaat distance

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Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.

Looks like it would be at home in the Disney movie "Planes". I've definitely seen smaller-scale replicas that are far more attractive than this one. They might get more traction calling it and painting it like small-scale C-82.

Have you seen this 2/3rds scale P-38, based in San Angelo, TX? I have and it is really nice. No comment on the above project.

http://www.eaa.org/news/2009/2009-11-19_p38.asp

Randy

WOW a Twin Engine Defender...

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Andrew King
Air Museum Director with no Museum to Direct
Open to Suggestions

Andrew, don't even get me started on that!

Randy

Theres a war replica p47 project on ebay right now. i kind of like those.

I love it!!!

Come on guys, he's not saying it's the real thing...it's supposed to be fun.

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Toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo late! lets get this started!A twin engine defender.Its probably time to edjumacate a new batch of wixers anyway.LOL

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Hang The Expense

I would just wonder that if you're going to spend all that time designing and building a replica, why wouldn't you at least try to get it to more closely resemble the plane you're replicating? Basically, anything with twin engines and twin booms MUST be a P-38?

I remember seeing a twin boom / twin engine plane fly overhead when I was kid and told my Dad I saw a P-38. He told me it is was more likely I saw a Flying Boxcar instead...and he was right.

By chance, would any of you crabbys dissing this also be among those who couldn't get enough of the bare metal 3/4 P-38 @ SUN-N-FUN a few years ago?

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Not me. That plane is beautiful and is a textbook example of what a scale replica should be. It looks like a P-38...just smaller.

Another good example would be the "Tadpole Clipper", a 3/8ths scale version of the PBM. Of course, it was built as a test bed for its "big brother" and not as a small scale replica of an extant type.