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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 09:39:04 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   Guys announce “giveaway” “you get a FREE year of membership to the boomer nerd legion!!!” requires purchase of $500,000 plane oh yeah you’ll get 3 free days of ground school!

   uh yeah good luck with that I don’t think we can find anybody too enticed by the “sale”

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 09:40:20 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     If you wanna see a clean bearcat for sale the listing is pretty good though: https://courtesyaircraft.com/aircraft/n68rw-grumman-f8f-2-bearcat/

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 09:41:07 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     Aw man they have a sea fury too? $1.7 mil

   • Royper (royper@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 09:46:08 JST Royper

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot For that kind of money are you buying an “authentic warbird“ or is this a kit of some sort?
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 09:46:08 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Royper

     @Royper Sale pending, but real aircraft. These superprops are great but don’t have the same values as WWII fighters. Harder sell, actually, people are intimidated by them a little more, and they often have a hard history of racing. That means they’re generally cared for and they come with a mountain of parts, new trinkets installed.

     If you have a replica, then it depends on how faithful and museum-ready it is. Something simple and old, usually around $100 to maybe $300 if it’s something really cool and funky. The krauts remade the old junkers mail plane, heard streed on it is $2.8 mil but it’s a faithful recreation, scanned from original parts

     https://courtesyaircraft.com/aircraft/n71gb-hawker-sea-fury-fb-11/

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 09:53:16 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     “we’ll include a lot of parts with the sale for twenty”

     “nah, that’s fine, you keep them”

     “no really, we’ll include them”

     “nah….you keep ‘em”

     “I think most of ‘em go to the plane, though, might as well”

     “ugh please just list ‘em on ebay or something”

     In all likelihood they’ll molder for years until the next sale, or they’ll be strewn across the grass at an oshkosh stall in 50 years