Museum

[Von Heydte]

USAF Museum at Wright-Pattersen AFB in Ohio is simply awesome. ME109, FW190, JU88 or HE111, Spit, Mustang, P47, P38 all in one hangar.

Trey

[jkerr419]

The National Air and Space is fantastic but they only dispay about 20% of their true collection. The real gems are locked up in a whare house due to lack of display space. Pensacola is amazing!! I moved to Texas a few years ago and have found a couple of gems. There is (or used to be) one down in Galveston (Lone Star Flight) that was pretty amazing. All of their craft are flight worthy. I just hope Ike didn't get them. They also have the home of the Confederate Airforce and the USS Lexington down in Corpis. It has to be the only plus of living here; during the summer there are airshows left and right!!

A few companies do build replica's but to re-tool and start building the originals from scratch would be one heck of a task. Alot of the parts and equipment just aren't made anymore. What's worse is the parts to make those parts...and the parts that make the parts that make the parts. Let alone someone qualified to operate the machinary. Most of the parts would have to be machined by hand. Basiclly take the price it took to originaly develope the plane and convert that to it's modern equivilent. Even if you had the plans everything else would have to be done from scartch. You could hunt and salvage a few pieces but most of those are used in restoration work. And even if you had the parts we haven't built aircraft like that in 60+ years. We just do not know the technology anymore.

There is a company the builds replica ME 262's (http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html) for a couple of mil. Read the history of their development. I also remember a place that built 3/4 scale 190's but don't remember where I saw it.

[irrelevant]

Originally Posted by Von Heydte

USAF Museum at Wright-Pattersen AFB in Ohio is simply awesome. ME109, FW190, JU88 or HE111, Spit, Mustang, P47, P38 all in one hangar.

Trey

I hope to visit that museum soon.

[mdbuehler]

If you are ever near Seattle, WA check out the Boeing Museum of Flight. They have several great displays from WWI and WWII. There's for sure a Zero, ME 109, Corsair (HUGE lol!), P-38 and a few others in the WW wing. Fascinating place, you can spend hours and hours in there. Took the kid a few months ago (he's eight) and he's been on a WWII airplane kick ever since

http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft

Great place, and right on Interstate 5 at Boeing Field. You can even get rides in a biplane, some random warbirds, and even the B-17 when it is in town!

[Blast1977]

Originally Posted by Von Heydte

USAF Museum at Wright-Pattersen AFB in Ohio is simply awesome. ME109, FW190, JU88 or HE111, Spit, Mustang, P47, P38 all in one hangar.

That place is very cool. Growing up in Ohio, we went there quite a bit.

[mattd27]

I've been to the National Air/Space museum. Unfortunately we were in a rush and had to leave pretty fast. It was cool but I would have liked to look around a lot more.

[moozicmon]

Originally Posted by jkerr419

The National Air and Space is fantastic but they only dispay about 20% of their true collection. The real gems are locked up in a whare house due to lack of display space. Pensacola is amazing!! I moved to Texas a few years ago and have found a couple of gems. There is (or used to be) one down in Galveston (Lone Star Flight) that was pretty amazing. All of their craft are flight worthy. I just hope Ike didn't get them. They also have the home of the Confederate Airforce and the USS Lexington down in Corpis. It has to be the only plus of living here; during the summer there are airshows left and right!!

A few companies do build replica's but to re-tool and start building the originals from scratch would be one heck of a task. Alot of the parts and equipment just aren't made anymore. What's worse is the parts to make those parts...and the parts that make the parts that make the parts. Let alone someone qualified to operate the machinary. Most of the parts would have to be machined by hand. Basiclly take the price it took to originaly develope the plane and convert that to it's modern equivilent. Even if you had the plans everything else would have to be done from scartch. You could hunt and salvage a few pieces but most of those are used in restoration work. And even if you had the parts we haven't built aircraft like that in 60+ years. We just do not know the technology anymore.

There is a company the builds replica ME 262's (http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html) for a couple of mil. Read the history of their development. I also remember a place that built 3/4 scale 190's but don't remember where I saw it.

Ah, but they have some on display at the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Center in Chantilly,VA. You will find one helluva collection including the Enola Gay
the only surviving Heinkel He 219 Uhu, the only surviving Arado Ar 234,one of three surviving Bachem Ba 349 Natters,the only surviving Nakajima J1N1 Gekko,one of four surviving Northrop P-61 Black Widows and more.

Check out Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_...ar-Hazy_Center

[moozicmon]

Originally Posted by mattmanB182

There is always the NationalAir and Space museum in DC. They gave a 109, a Zero, a Folgore, A mustang, and a Spit all in the same room.

I really want to go to the other location they have in MD where there is an
He-219 undergoing restoration...and even an AR-234.

And also your run of the mill Allied planes.

That is in Chantilly,Va, not Maryland.

[Swagger7]

Originally Posted by jkerr419

The National Air and Space is fantastic but they only dispay about 20% of their true collection. The real gems are locked up in a whare house due to lack of display space. Pensacola is amazing!! I moved to Texas a few years ago and have found a couple of gems. There is (or used to be) one down in Galveston (Lone Star Flight) that was pretty amazing. All of their craft are flight worthy. I just hope Ike didn't get them. They also have the home of the Confederate Airforce and the USS Lexington down in Corpis. It has to be the only plus of living here; during the summer there are airshows left and right!!

A few companies do build replica's but to re-tool and start building the originals from scratch would be one heck of a task. Alot of the parts and equipment just aren't made anymore. What's worse is the parts to make those parts...and the parts that make the parts that make the parts. Let alone someone qualified to operate the machinary. Most of the parts would have to be machined by hand. Basiclly take the price it took to originaly develope the plane and convert that to it's modern equivilent. Even if you had the plans everything else would have to be done from scartch. You could hunt and salvage a few pieces but most of those are used in restoration work. And even if you had the parts we haven't built aircraft like that in 60+ years. We just do not know the technology anymore.

There is a company the builds replica ME 262's (http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html) for a couple of mil. Read the history of their development. I also remember a place that built 3/4 scale 190's but don't remember where I saw it.

That's the great thing about WWI replicas. It's all wood & fabric and you can build one yourself in a garage for less than $10,000 if you scrounge a little. I'm planning on building an SE5a eventually.

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by Swagger7

That's the great thing about WWI replicas. It's all wood & fabric and you can build one yourself in a garage for less than $10,000 if you scrounge a little. I'm planning on building an SE5a eventually.

Now I'm going to start working on my Fokker DVII.