Video: ScaleWings Carbon Fiber Mustang Replica At AirVenture 2022

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Key Takeaways:

  • ScaleWings offers an easy-to-assemble, downsized P-51 replica made from carbon fiber.
  • The replica is meticulously designed to mimic an "all-metal" look, featuring duplicated rivets, screws, hardware, and even a fabric-covered rudder, all molded directly into the carbon fiber.
  • This exceptional realism often leads people to mistake the carbon fiber aircraft for a genuine metal airplane.
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With lots of downsized P-51 replicas to choose from, ScaleWings’ carbon fiber version offers the Revell-model ease of assembly, while retaining the all-metal “look.” The Germany-based company painstakingly duplicated all the rivets, screws, hardware—even replicated the fabric-covered rudder—with indentations in the factory molds. Many people assume it’s actually a metal airplane.

Mark Phelps

Mark Phelps is a senior editor at AVweb. He is an instrument rated private pilot and former owner of a Grumman American AA1B and a V-tail Bonanza.
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