Fantastic FW 190 video

[bongodriver]

I'm really stuck half way on this....

Stern I get what you are saying man.....it's like killing the last Dodo just to see what it tastes like.........but then there is a stuffed Dodo in a museum.....but does the stuffed museum Dodo really convey what a Dodo was? they used to live and breathe, eat and sleep and do all kinds of wonderfull Dodo stuff, which is Bewolfs point, the museum piece is dead and lifeless and really just a mock up of the real thing, a flying example would be a magical thing to see (the aircraft not the Dodo) but it's the last one.....what to do?

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I'm really stuck half way on this....

Stern I get what you are saying man.....it's like killing the last Dodo just to see what it tastes like.........but then there is a stuffed Dodo in a museum.....but does the stuffed museum Dodo really convey what a Dodo was? they used to live and breathe, eat and sleep and do all kinds of wonderfull Dodo stuff, which is Bewolfs point, the museum piece is dead and lifeless and really just a mock up of the real thing, a flying example would be a magical thing to see (the aircraft not the Dodo) but it's the last one.....what to do?

Well, your comparison doesn't quite work because it's a living thing which is gonna die at some point anyway, but if it didn't, just clone it, like you can clone a genuine plane and make a fully working replica.

As you know yourself, flying warbirds of today are mostly "replicas" anyway, most of the original components are refurbished/changed/removed for the sake of safety. Why doing that to an original when you can have a replica of it and not be too worried if it gets damaged or lost?

[bongodriver]

it was more an analogy than a comparison Stern.......I'm sure most people got it.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

it was more an analogy than a comparison Stern.......I'm sure most people got it.

yeah man, I know, and I suppose my idea of cloning it still stands, doesn't it?

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

yeah man, I know, and I suppose my idea of cloning it still stands, doesn't it?

even if it's a clone the Dodo is a real Dodo....just not the same Dodo.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

even if it's a clone the Dodo is a real Dodo....just not the same Dodo.

lol a clone is a clone, biologically indistinguishable

Let's put it in another perspective: would you personally risk to fly such rare and precious machines with the original stock conditions? And please, give me a professional answer, not an "aviator" one (cos otherwise you'd see me trying to fly the Spruce Goose again!).

[bongodriver]

biologically indistinguishable

therefore 'real' but with an unconventional method of being made to be.

is a 'machine' so precious, there are a good selection of real examples of other machines languishing in museums, I don't think any association with an 'ace' is particularily important....starts to get a little like reverence of a weird religious relic, but really I am still half and half on this.