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Originally Posted by Bewolf
The replica 262 is quite different to the original, first of all it was build on the specifics of the two seater version of the 262 and then modded for a single seater cockpit with a different structural internal layout compared to the original, it also uses different wing sweeps to deal with center of gravity issues provided by it's modern jet engines. It's far better then nothing but still a bastard.
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erm... so if it's a replica in a museum it's fine, whilst if it's a flying replica it needs to be accurate?
You know Hasegawa's Macchi 202? Well the kit was based on the Italian Macchi 202 that is in Vigna di Valle, Italy, the Japanese engineers went there and measured the machine in every corner, then made their kit. What they didn't know is that originally one wing of the Macchi was actually shorter than the other, this to compensate on torque, but the machine in the museum, an empty shell that was recovered from a shooting range (!!!) had only one wing left, so the restorers used the other wing as a template to build the other, ignoring the peculiarity of the different wing length.
As a result, many representations of the Macchi planes are done without this feature. That's why having an accurate and genuine plane from wartime is of vital importance for the sake of historical information and data.