As long as they're not selling fake 1:1 airplane parts, I don't think aircraft companies (wether based in the USA or not) should be profiting from the looks of their aircraft design some seventy years after the fact. They didn't make those planes that way "because they looked good" (which seems to me to be the main reason collectors buy them—i.e. out of aesthetic preference). Why should they be entitled to milk the exploits of, let's say, Alexander Vraciu for their own corporate benefit? Or do we also have to pay Vraciu? The DoD too, maybe? Where does it stop? With the tire manufacturer?heiss66 wrote: Not only is JSI ripping off 21st Century Toys they're ripping off every USA aircraft company of the royalities they are required to pay.
What next—the RAF leeching off its markings? Oh wait! This is corporate greed, pure and simple.