[ARC5] Whidbey Island Air Museum

[J Mcvey]

 I guess they figured "radio control box" was close enough.That's a real sloppy job for a museum- especially when it has all the tags on it!

    On Monday, December 14, 2020, 7:58:24 AM EST, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:  
 
  
I'm also "shy" about so-called museums and
 restoration groups.   Years ago, I contacted
 an officer of the "politically-Correct Air Force" about
 helping their restoration efforts.  The man laughed in
 my face, talked to me like a I was an errant and amusing
 three-year-old, and said "We get warehouses full of 
 that old crap.  We toss it straight in the trash."
 
 This was during the era when "restoration groups" 
 routinely stripped and gutted the insides of these
 historic aircraft, installing seats so they could sell
 more rides, discarded all the period avionics etc.-
 They turned historic aircraft into a nothing-
 a "Cessna with an overcoat."   The technology
 that made that aircraft function is just as important
 as the flashy bits one can see on the tarmac.
 
 Well, fast-forward a few years and "the worm turned" 
 as it always does.  The restoration culture changed and
 now, the community values accuracy and completeness
 (sometimes to a fault) and suddenly, their "Cessnas with
 an overcoat" weren't winning awards any more.  
  I start getting emails from these people, hat in hand,
 asking for my help cleaning-up their despicable, 
 destructive mess.
 I told them, as politely as I could, to go POUND SAND.
 Karma.
 
 Today, I grant that most of the arrogant "You can't buy a
 P-51 and fly it?  Sit down, bush! Haw Haw Haw!"
 a**holes have either died drilling an irreplaceable piece 
 of history into the ground while showing everyone what
 a hot-shot pilot they are (were),
 or earned their six-feet of dirt in other ways.    
 Today, there are sincere and well-intentioned
 restoration groups, such as most of those working on 
 beautiful ship preservations.  I don't know what the 
 difference is, but I have never, ever had a ship group
 talk to me like I was a red-headed, retarded step child.  
 I am glad to do what I can for restoration groups 
 and "museums," but only after I've had a long, hard 
 look at them.
 Life and resources are too short to waste them on jerks.
 There are lots of good, decent and sincere people
 who need those assets.
 
 GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S
 
 
 On 12/14/2020 2:25 AM, Hubert Miller wrote:
  
 
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this museum offended me a few years back, and I decided that while I'm still on the planet,
 
they will never get an ATB from me. -Hue Miller 
 
  
 

  
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