Originally Posted by
rpellicciotti
I understand your meaning but do model builders or kit makers bother to get licensing from the full scale designer/manufacturer? Are all those F-16s and F-86s licensed?
Sincerely doubt it. If Lockheed would hit all the F-16 makers they'd be able to lower the price of the F-35 by a couple of millions a piece. They could even sue the Chinese government for copyright infringement, like they did to Yellow Aircraft in the early 2000's, hence had to change the name of the F-16 Falcon to "Mako".