Ferrari Mailing List: Re: My Experience with a Kit Car Owner (NFC)

[LS (lashdeep]

"next to the Boeing plant a group is 
building 5 new Messerschmitt ME-262's"

Keeping in mind the above statement, how can these be continuations and
not replicas? Doesn't the term "continuation" imply that somehow the
original company or tooling is intimately involved in the process?

LS


--- red5hilser [at] aol.com wrote:

> Hey Todd: When I lived in Buena Park, CA. we had an original 262 parked
> out front of a place called 'Cars of Stars & Planes of Fame. I used to
> get up early on Sunday mornings, sit in the cockpit and play 'Luftwaffe
> Ace. Minus the engines, it was complete with all the instruments, etc.
> Der Frau took a picture of me in the cockpit which I had Gen. Adolf
> Galland sign at a 'Warbird Show" in San Diego. I also have a signed
> pitcure of Pappy Boyington and the Japanese Zero pilot who shot him down
> in WW2. They were traveling the gun show circuit together in the late
> 1970s selling books and photos.
>  
> Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba 
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: racertod [at] racertodd.com
> To: red5hilser [at] aol.com
> Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
> Sent: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 9:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] My Experience with a Kit Car Owner
> 
> 
> Britt wrote:
> 
> >Hey, does anybody make flying replicas of WWII aircraft? Now that would
> be
> >neat! Would you car guys feel the same way about a carefully made
> >P38/Mustang/B24 flying replica
> >as you would a car? What if it was a type of plane that there were none
> left
> >in flying condition or say the only one was in the Smithsonian so that
> the
> >only way you or your kids could experience the sight and sound of that 
> >aircraft
> >was with a replica. You wouldn't wear a fake Rolex but would you look
> at and
> >admire a replica plane?
> 
>          http://www.stormbirds.com/
>          Right up here in Everett, WA next to the Boeing plant a group
> is 
> building 5 new Messerschmitt ME-262's, WWII's first operational jet 
> fighter.  Less than 10 ME-262's still exist, all in museums and none in 
> flying condition.
>          They started by restoring an original ME-262 that was sitting 
> outside a Naval base, this allowed them to dismantle the aircraft to use
> it 
> as a template.  Airframes are rivet-for-rivet copies.  Modern J-85
> engines 
> are hidden inside castings that duplicate the look of the original
> Jumo004 
> engines.  Internal systems are done to modern specs:  wiring is modern,
> not 
> the fabric covered original, modern Aeroquip hoses are used, etc.
>          The Messerschmitt Foundation in Germany bought one plane and in
> 
> April of this year a ME-262 flew over Germany for the first time since 
> 1945.  Also, the Foundation assigned the next five serial numbers drawn 
> from the work number sequences used on the original 1945 assembly 
> line.  They are not so much copies as a continuation of the design.
>          If you have an extra $2million or so laying around, you could
> own one.
> 
> 
> Todd
> Seattle,WA
> '86 GTI, Red of course. (exciting racey car)  263,000 miles
> '87 Golf, Polar Silver. (boring work car)     591,000 miles <- Yeah,
> baby!
> http://www.pureluckdesign.com <-Ferrari & VW stuff
> 
> 
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