Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC - Kit Cars and Airplanes

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In a message dated 12/9/2006 1:34:54 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
ferrari-request [at] ferrarilist.com writes:

The 4  engined bombers are not being reproduced AFAIK - probably the 
complexity keeps  interest low but 


In my old National Guard unit we had a flight surgeon who had a partial  
ownership in a B-17. Great opportunity for a free ride (being the unit's  
Instrument Flight Instructor) though some others had less pleasant "crew" 
duties  in 
exchange for a fun weekend with the airplane.
 
I think that, in addition to the great costs of operation, one of the  
biggest bar to reproducing these larger bombers were the minimum number of crew 
 
members required to operate them followed probably very closely with a  
requirement for a specific type certificate for each individual bomber, and  
their huge 
appetite for fuel and parts.. Things like that were a challenge for  
organizations as venerable as the Confederate Air Force that made a distinct  
effort 
at preserving old warbirds.
 
Personally, a B-36 bomber and a Grumman Goose (probably one of the really  
neat ones re-engined with Pratt & Whitney PT-6 engines). Of course I'd  
probably 
have to con Clyde into some sort of partnership arrangement both for  
financial and flying experience and skill/currency. The there would be the  
problem 
of finding one at a "Clyde Price" and a ghetto airport to park it in  when it 
reached a "C" inspection.
 
Dr. Steve  

1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III    1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
1980 MB  450SL                 1982 RR  Corniche
1988 Rolls Royce Silver  Spur         1994 F-350 Powerstroke  4x4          
1996  Bronco                                  2000 Lincoln Town Car
1995 Ferrari 348  Spyder                 2004 Excursion
+ Audrey's 3x MB's

Dr. Stephen B. Spies, CES,  CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
Explosives Engineering  Technologies

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