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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:15 am 
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Not mine.. hahahaha but I thought it was very interesting and ya'll like to see it.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =276309655


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:22 pm 
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Interesting. Wonder where it will end up?

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:46 pm 
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Hmm..a little more work and I wonder if I could get a ferry permit for it?

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:02 pm 
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Interesting find. I pm'd Mikael over at preserved axis aircraft and note that this one isn't on the list of preserved airframes, though I didn't check relics.

Looks like there's still interesting stuff still out there to find...


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Not sure this person knows what he's got. It's listed as a functional JET

Mudge the rocket man

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:42 pm 
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It looks like a replica built up around some original wreckage to me.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:48 pm 
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Ill tell you, a 163 Komet would be an appropriate aircraft for the CASC collection on the count that Rudy Opitz ended up settling here for the majority of his life, flying gliders. One crazy aircraft.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:54 pm 
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Fuel desk ? Could you send the C Stoff and T Stoff trucks out, I'm gonna need a top off !

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Mudge wrote:
Not sure this person knows what he's got. It's listed as a functional JET

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C’mon, it obviously has a propeller on the nose. :P

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Obviously a collection of parts and some fab'd up stuff, but come on, you have to totally dig that Krylon Camo!


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Looks like a Home Depot project scabbed together with original bits.

This probably has more provenance.

http://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/me163/kurz.htm

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JimH wrote:
This probably has more provenance.

http://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/me163/kurz.htm

And it's a very impressive machine in the air. I saw it flown with considerable panache at La Ferte Alais a couple of years back.


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That's a fairly lame write-up for such a rare aircraft. Wouldn't something like that be better sold at Sothebys or similar? WORTH 3 MILLION!! Starting bid $650,000. How does one come up with the 3 million figure? Have any Me-163 sold for that amount in recent history? Have any been sold? What did he have, 6 photos? Really? Did he list any personal contact information? Location of the aircraft for personal viewing? Maybe he did, I read it very quickly. Anyway,
I'm being sarcastic, facetious, and cynical.


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Cubs wrote:
Have any Me-163 sold for that amount in recent history? Have any been sold?

The IWM at Duxford sold theirs to Paul Allen a few years back for IIRC a 7-figure (sterling, not dollars) sum, to fund the acquisition of the DH-9


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Mudge wrote:
Not sure this person knows what he's got. It's listed as a functional JET

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Gee Mudge, I didn't know you moonlighted as Elton John :lol: :lol: :lol:

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