Missing replicas

[buzz1941]

Are there any significant aircraft from the Great War still missing as replicas or museum builds? Has everything been covered?

[Ransom E. Olds]

Multiengine airplanes are conspicious by their near-total absence, and Zeps are, save for the occasional fragment, totally gone. Ransom

[Brad]

There are VERY few Albatros fighters... NO Halberstadt fighters that I am aware of... No Siemens Schuckert DIII/DIV replicas FLYING. Not many Austrian fighters of ANY type... that Hansa-Brandenburg DI just BEGS to be replicated! No Roland CII. Not many German 2-seaters of ANY type.

On the "bad guy" side:

No Ansaldo fighters of ANY type that I know of... no Brisfit (it may just be too ugly to stand to work on it...) no Dolphin, VERY few DH2s, no Fe8, (Not many pushers of any type) no Morane parasols or early monoplanes (the Bullet has some replicas) no Sikorsky S16.

NO flying boat replicas from either side...

Brad

[EricGoedkoop]

Originally Posted by Brad

No Ansaldo fighters of ANY type that I know of... no Brisfit (it may just be too ugly to stand to work on it...) no Dolphin, VERY few DH2s, no Fe8, (Not many pushers of any type) no Morane parasols or early monoplanes (the Bullet has some replicas) no Sikorsky S16.

Beg to differ, Brad. There is a Dolphin repro at Old Rhinebeck, currently uncovered and dis-assembled following an engine failure a few years back. It flew for many years. There is also an Ansaldo A.1 repro that was started in the 1990's but not completed. There are two F.E.8s - one at Owl's Head that I believe is flying and one built by Cole Palen that also was a regular performer for a number of years. The nacelle and center section are currently on loan to the NASM; the booms, wing panels and tailfeathers are in storage at ORA. There is a flying MoS H at La Ferte Alais, and a Brisfit under construction at Kingsbury.

[Jeff Brooks]

I saw a BrisFit in a magazing a few years ago. an airline pilot built it with a V8 and reduction gear. flew it to the fly in at Ohio. Brian Coughlin had a fuselage in his barn a few years ago also and an original His engine ... don't know if he sold it or someday hopes to put it back together ... but they are out there!

[franzkait]

Brad, in germany is a 2 seater albatros flying , two 2 seater alb. and a 2 seater fokker D7 under construction

[Yeoman]

Well I'd like to see a replica RE8 flying ! Its bad enough that there are only two original survivors,neither of which are likely to feel the wind under their wings again.
Thankfully there is the Be2 project in the works, which will help the allied two seaters.

I agree with Brad that there does need to be more Albatros in the air as well.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with building replica Fokker aircraft, in fact Achims page is one of my favorites here. However, too many of them is like going to a historical battle re-enactment and seeing the French represented soley by imperial Guard! Dont get me wrong though, I would rater see too many than not enough

[Fritz Kempf]

The New England Air Museum has a Sikorsky S-16 it is listed as a replica but is actually a half finished original that was finished at the Sikorsky factory in Connecticut, if I remember right.

http://www.neam.org/exhibits.htm

[buzz1941]

I actually have a reason for starting this thread. I'm in the midst of a start-up educational project at a local high school where, as ongoing class projects, the classes will start creating full-sized accurate reproductions of aircraft for museums. This isn't a quickie project -- the complicated aircraft (like the DH-4) will take at least four years to build. Thank of them as large models, but as accurate as possible. Yes, non-flying.

Some will be simple, like the Tuttle glider. Aircraft selection is still ongoing, but we're narrowing in on aircraft like the Thomas-Morse MB-3, the Boeing PW-9 and the Curtiss Model G Tractor Scout...

[baldeagle]

Star Strutter!

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