Fantastic FW 190 video

[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.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

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.

why is Amelia Earhart's Loocked Vega more precious than another then? The 'ace' thing is an added value to the fact that the specific plane in question is the most complete, genuine and rare postwar plane known to humanity, other than being the personal ride of a Luftwaffe Ace. If that is not enough I dunno what else you would need to deem it as precious.

IF we still had these, would you fly Udet's Fokker VII? Or Don Gentile's Shangri-La?

Please read the link to the restoration history that I posted above, I'm glad the plane is in the right hands really, cos I think you guys fail to comprehend the value of this machine.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

why is Amelia Earhart's Loocked Vega more precious than another then? The 'ace' thing is an added value to the fact that the specific plane in question is the most complete, genuine and rare postwar plane known to humanity, other than being the personal ride of a Luftwaffe Ace. If that is not enough I dunno what else you would need to deem it as precious.

IF we still had these, would you fly Udet's Fokker VII? Or Don Gentile's Shangri-La?

Please read the link to the restoration history that I posted above, I'm glad the plane is in the right hands really, cos I think you guys fail to comprehend the value of this machine.

to be honest Amelia Earhart would be much more precious to me, the machine is just an artefact, an object made of various materials that are a bit old now, sooner or later museums will need to make space for eurofighters? and the world moves on.

yes I'd fly the crap out of them and have a boner while I do it....but thats another story