Fake or real ?

[paddy]

Really hard to tell these days. Once Spitfires became too expensive to leave outside RAF stations at the gate, a company started producing fiberglass replicas to take over the role of gate guardian.


Meanwhile this one was real but like an idiot i set the shutter speed to high and froze the prop on about 20 pictures so these are all i have worth looking at today.

 

[moon puppy]

Oh you talking about in real life.

I'm really getting to the point I don't want to see the real war birds flying anymore than they have to. I'm taking the veterans. We're losing them too often and they can't be replaced.

I mean think about the B26 Flak Bait, they are restoring it to flying condition while maintaining the end of war wear on it. Would you want to see them finish the job and take it up for a spin only for a bird strike or something take it out?

I'm seeing a trend on youtube some of the channels doing segments about AI generated content, and it being wrong. So you have to ask there is it real or fake.

Love the photos Paddy!

 

[Paulw]

Oh you talking about in real life.

I'm really getting to the point I don't want to see the real war birds flying anymore than they have to. I'm taking the veterans. We're losing them too often and they can't be replaced.

I mean think about the B26 Flak Bait, they are restoring it to flying condition while maintaining the end of war wear on it. Would you want to see them finish the job and take it up for a spin only for a bird strike or something take it out?

I'm seeing a trend on youtube some of the channels doing segments about AI generated content, and it being wrong. So you have to ask there is it real or fake.

Love the photos Paddy!

Oh, sort of like the A-20 that had an engine failure and a gear up in Texas a couple of months back. Seeing that it was the only flying example in the world.

 

[paddy]

Pretty sure after a little research that the first pic is fibreglass,

Anyway, these things were built to be flown. Dozens of people turn up everyday at the airfield to see these things fire up, the noise, the smell, the flypasts....i can assure you not one would turn up to look at it in a shed covered in dust.....and in every flight is a guy thats paid £4k to have a go in it and have an experience you cant get anywhere else.

There are currently 30 Spits flying in the UK and another dozen under restoration. I can remember when there was probably 6-8 in total, all 30 were restored to flight and probably would never have been restored if they were not going to fly. I can think of a dozen in museums that really could be fibreglass for all that it matters as they will just sit there for ever more.


sorry....I vote let these things fly and even if its does crash like the BBMF one last year it will be flying again in a couple of years.

 

[moon puppy]

I'd split it with ya Paddy, historical aircraft, the real ones should be preserved. I totally dig what Peter Jackson has done with the Vintage Aviation group. Build'em and fly'em and if they crash well we haven't lost anything. But what if one of the original Fokkers of Jg1 survived somehow and was airworthy. Would we risk flying it? Would we risk flying the Spruce Goose?

But fiberglass Spitfires? What motor do those things have? Are the lighter than the original?

 

[paddy]

They are just a large Tamiya kit, they dont have a motor. they are just designed to replace the real thing on display.

This one is actually alloy over a wooden frame and coincidentally was on sale at the same airfield so could even be the one i saw yesterday ?

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