The "Jigsaw Bomber" (FAAM effort to recreate a Fairey Barracuda)

[Russ Matthews]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051947/The-jigsaw-bomber-Aircraft-enthusiasts-rebuilding-extinct-WWII-plane-decades-worth-scrap-metal.html

[Don Dollinger]

Really neat stuff.  I am assuming a static example but if they build a flyer it would be even more awesome...

LTM,

Don

[Monty Fowler]

Gotta love the Brits and their enthusiams! I build model kits ... they say they heck with that and try to piece together the real thing. Amazing.

[Don Dollinger]

Where I grew up there is alot of farmland and alot of the farmers make a runway on their land and fly small planes.

Had a friend that bought 3 Piper Cubs (2 crashed) and one that had alot part salvaged off it. Took him 6 months to strip all the usable bits he needed to make one.   I saw the pile of parts that he had accumulated and in my mind was saying "ain't no way thats ever gonna fly again".  Took him 3 years but he finally pieced one together and it must've passed inspection as he flew it for a number of years after that.  Ironically, he sold it and purchased a nearly new plane and died in a crash a few months later.  The investigation ruled that it was due to a mechanical malfunction.  The one he pieced together is still flying to this day.

Guess if your passionate enough about it you can make just about anything happen.

LTM,

Don