[ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

If you sit down and talk to the people who have done the work on some of these aircraft …..
The distinction between “original” and “reproduction” can be a bit thin. On one aircraft I 
did the “in depth tour” of, the answer was that the rear door was indeed original and recovered
from the wreck of the aircraft. Past that, everything else had been made up new. 

Bob

> On Oct 2, 2019, at 6:42 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> On 10/2/2019 3:22 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>> Dave, there actually are plenty of people highly interested in chariots of ancient Egypt.
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> That's a relative statement, Hue.   A few hundred (or even a few thousand) people in the world with a major interest ("major" meaning they will spend time and/or money in support of their passion) is not a "large" interest, and I'd bet coffee and donuts you'd have a hard time finding 25 people within 100 miles with a passion for Chariots.  You could probably find 30 or so with a passion for B-17s within a hundred miles, but those people are aging off this mortal coil quickly.
> The idea of flying replicas would seem a good one, though I don't know how practical.  It would take a large investment and a continuing stream of funds, and with a evaporating interest base, it may not be do-able.   I don't know the answer.  It's for smarter people than me.  I only know that the B-17 (and a continuing crash-parade of WWII aircraft in the last few decades) is now one-closer to extinction.
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