[Milsurplus] Bomber Radio Pictures

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Fantini" <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Bomber Radio Pictures


> If the BC-375 transmitters were in working condition what would you use
> them for? ....   I am all for having everything one hundred percent
accurate
> on a museum ship but on a working aircraft do not know how practical
> that is. ...

I don't ask that they be working, although that would be nice.
I ask for an honest attempt to be true to history
and the technology that made the history.
At least these guys have made some effort,
and I heartily commend them for that.
 I wish they'd get serious about finishing the job,
or let someone help them, but they're worlds ahead of some others.
Have you looked in the cockpit
of a Counterfeit Air Farce "fighter?"  They've been,
to a large degree, stripped and remade into common
civil aviation cockpits.  Don't take my money and tell me
I'm going to see (or contribute to!) the "preservation"
of a Hellcat or Thunderbolt and then have me find that
they've turned it into some half-baked, bastardized
wanna-be Cessna with a fancy skin.  Modern avionics
can be installed and used in a way that preserves history-
some groups already do that.  All it takes is a little work
and a dose of  ** "give a damn," **
which some of these people lack.

I know- they'll say: "It's mine and I can do as I please with it."
Yes; that's true;  and if you owned the Mona Lisa,
you could use it to wipe your butt.  If you bought the Alamo,
you could turn it into a public pay toilet.  Would "ownership"
make your action moral?  Nobody "owns" historic artifacts;
you buy the right to be its temporary steward.  When you're gone,
someone else will "buy" that right.  The question is: Are you
going to be a good or a bad steward of  the part of the
heritage of mankind that has been entrusted to you?

OK... I'll get off my soapbox...
Some of these people just piss... me... off......

Dave S.