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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

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It's a P-38. If it's restored to -any- condition I'd have a hard
time yawning about it.

Well, if the Brits have anything to do with it, they'll restore it ,
then give it to some Hooray Henry named Lt. Commander Nigel
Double-Barreled (goes back to Norman times you know, hawr hawr) who
will replant it at an airshow, and with any luck he'll take out a row
of vintage airplanes as well.

Excellent rant. Is that in reference to Black Six?
-c


For one. Some asshole also planted a -38 at Duxford around 1995 and
there's some other idiot ex Roya Navy commander who has crashed so many
he should be a given the Pour le Merite.
I saw the P-38 guy who crashed (dished out of a roll) about a year
before hs accident. He broke every rule in the book and nobody seemed to
care. He was doing aileron rolls pointed straight at the crowd (which
looked absolutely brilliant, I'll admit) and was looping the thing at
insanely low altitudes and using the most awkward and dangerous looking
"cranking" during the last quarter to trim the grass during the exit.
Unfortuantely it was only a matter of time.

Then there was the guy who crashed the last flying Mosquito doing
wingovers at a show in Manchester, I think, the idiot who split-essed
into the ground in a Hurricane a few months ago (that one's on you Tube,
what was he thinking?), the Aircobra a couple of years ago and on and
on..
Excuse me Dudley, if any of these guys were your friends, but with this
many stupid avoidable accidents in such a small country (with an
admittedly large warbird scene) something has got to be wrong.


I would think that part of the problem is the insanely high cost of fuel
in the UK -- coupled with oppressive flying restrictions, which inhibit
proficiency.