[ARC5] More Moron-ities.

[Lenox Carruth]

>Besides- they hacked me off when they rolled-over like a bunch of whipped
dogs and changed their name.

 

>D.S.

 

All of the previous information about extra weight is true.  Particularly at
the current price of avgas.  

 

I have been a life member of the Confederate Air Force for over twenty-five
years.  I have flown in many of their airshows and lead many formation
flights in those shows.  I was there before, during, and after the name
change.  Did I like it?  No!  Do I like the current ridiculous infection of
political correctness that borders on idiocy in our country?  No!

 

That said, the Confederate Air Force was faced with losing sponsorship from
many organizations because of political correctness.  The CAF is not and has
not been endowed.  It takes a LOT of money to run a museum.  It takes even
more money to run a flying museum.  The Confederate Air Force was faced with
having to stop flying, at the least, if they did not change their name.
Fuel, oil, aid in kind, and all of the other things that were and still are
donated to the CAF would have ceased.  The Confederate Air Force made the
painful decision to change the name to Commemorative Air Force.  For many of
the same reasons, they now embrace aircraft of all eras.

 

So, Dave, I think that I can safely assure you that, if you will just endow
the CAF, they will happily change the name back to the Confederate Air
Force.  If you chose not to do so, you will probably continue to be unhappy
about the name change as am I.  I could not afford to endow them either.  We
are an unwilling product of political correctness run amok.  That is the
world in which we live.

 

I would be happy to commiserate with you in person but it won't change
anything.  Except that we might reduce the world's supply of beer. 

 

The CAF is not perfect but, then, I have never been in a ham radio
organization that was perfect either.  In fact, I have run into more
unappreciative people in ham radio organizations than in the CAF.  Running a
museum is hard, very hard.  If they seemed unappreciative to you, you
probably ran into one of the jerks that seem to lurk in any organization.
Unfortunately, they are all volunteers - we can't fire them.  And, yes, we
do have some jerks.

 

Several of us were able to install complete radio and navigator's stations
in the DFW wing's R4D.  Because of weight considerations, we hunted down
radios that had been internally trashed but looked decent externally and
used them.  That's where I learned to patch holes and apply black wrinkle
paint.  It can be done.  Now if we can just stop the public from stealing
the knobs we will be ahead of the game.

 

Lenox