[ARC5] The Warbird Groups

[David Stinson]

George Brand wrote:
 
> CAN I GET AN AMEN!!!!!!   Saving my pennies for my flight

Not me.  If the radio gear isn't authentic, 
or if they haven't at least *tried* to get it authentic,
I'm not interested.
The historic technology is just as important as the aircraft in my book.
No B-17 or B-24 would ever have completed a single mission without 
the radios, radars and navigation equipment of the time.

Most of these groups present a hollowed-out shell that looks like 
a warbird, but it's really a replica-  Might as well be fiberglass.
And if you try to talk to them about the historic technology,
you get a sneer and nasty remarks about what you can do with the
"trashy old junk" you want to give them for free.
Then they tell you if you don't like it, go buy your own warbird.
Yeah...right.  
And yes- I used to be a member and sent them my money.
Not any more, thanks.

When I look in the cockpit of a (politically) Correct Air Farce machine,
I see a Cessna.  If I wanted to see a Cessna, I'd go to the local 
airstrip.  And I'm too old to put up with nasty people attitudes.
I'll save my money, effort and material for the groups 
who care enough to do it right.  There are some out there.

73 Dave S.