Hey Stik
Someone once said to the wright brothers that they would never be able to fly - they managed to obscure their Reality sensor and make it work.
I guess if it was easy the skies would be full of DC3 rebuilds. Not far from you is a guy who decided that he could rebuild, fly, and display a P51. He achieved it, a task considerably less easy than getting 10 people together in a DC3 and then displaying it.
I thought you were made of more positive stuff than that!
I guess you don't want it in your garden then if it eventually happens?
Now I know you are friendly with a number of reasonably well off types who are into aviation so perhaps they could make the dream come true?.
I have been working at this desk now for 12 hours in the hope that my reward package will be increased to allow me to fritter more money on aviation dreams - never mind you are probably right. This sort of fun is for others. I'm going to cut my wrists - well maybe just scratch myself slightly I can't be bothered to do anything more than that.
Isn't it about time we sorted the pics of your new PP? - hope you have got some words together now.