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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message link.net...
I recently posted a strong objection to a photographer pushing crash
videos on the newsgroups. I've pasted in below word for word the exact
quoted text of a post below addressed to me personally. Aside from the
personal comment the photographer makes to me, which is fine, and fully
within his right to do so in defense of his position, please note his
GENERAL FEELINGS about race pilots and airshow pilots, and after reading
his general comment about pilots like myself, ask yourself if this
person is, as he has said, involved in his hobby of crash photography
simply because he "loves" aviation? Ask yourself about his frame of
thinking as he's watching pilots like myself do a demonstration. Then
ask yourself how he feels about me as he's taking that video!
Thank you for your time,

From Iwan Bogels to me below;

I don't have to put up with the opinion of some
hypocrite
pilot who is involved in demonstration flights and air races, intended
to
push flying to the limit. If it wasn't for guys like you, about 50% of
all
crash videos would have never been shot because the crashes simply
didn't
occur.

If it wasn't for guys like you, aviation would be much more dangerous.
Thank God for those who define the limits for the rest of us.
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.

(Gene Seibel) wrote in message . com...
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message link.net...
I recently posted a strong objection to a photographer pushing crash
videos on the newsgroups. I've pasted in below word for word the exact
quoted text of a post below addressed to me personally. Aside from the
personal comment the photographer makes to me, which is fine, and fully
within his right to do so in defense of his position, please note his
GENERAL FEELINGS about race pilots and airshow pilots, and after reading
his general comment about pilots like myself, ask yourself if this
person is, as he has said, involved in his hobby of crash photography
simply because he "loves" aviation? Ask yourself about his frame of
thinking as he's watching pilots like myself do a demonstration. Then
ask yourself how he feels about me as he's taking that video!
Thank you for your time,

From Iwan Bogels to me below;

I don't have to put up with the opinion of some
hypocrite
pilot who is involved in demonstration flights and air races, intended
to
push flying to the limit. If it wasn't for guys like you, about 50% of
all
crash videos would have never been shot because the crashes simply
didn't
occur.

If it wasn't for guys like you, aviation would be much more dangerous.
Thank God for those who define the limits for the rest of us.

This newsgroup is like the TV. Fatal or severe injury crashes are
not allowed. Only slight injury crashes are allowed.

It is a civic duty to maintain these common decencies.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...

A lot of entertainment is built around that. Most modern movies seem to have
lost all concept of plot in favor of more and bigger 'special effects.'
People go to see demolition derbies. The potential for seeing a crash is, in
fact, one of the reasons that a lot of people go to races. Why is that? What
is it about people that they want to see this?

I think the *potential* excites people but the actuality of it when it
really happens is a big "downer." I know for me, when I see video of
something like that, I think, "dammit, this guy was risking his neck
to put on a show to entertain me." This is also why it's one thing to
see a big nasty crash where the driver/pilot gets up and walks away or
waves from the stretcher, versus one where a life is lost.

When I was in Spain a couple years ago on business I, being a
Hemingway fan, naturally went to see a bullfight. I mentioned it and a
bunch of my co-workers decided to come along too. It had the qualities
of opera, the Latin Mass, and NASCAR all rolled into one; A
first-class spectacle if I've ever seen it. And then at the end, when
the matador draws the sword and points it towards the bull to go for
the killing blow, that brought home that this was in fact Blood Sport,
in practice as well as principle. Having hunted deer, birds, etc.
growing up, I did not find the sight of it all so shocking as did many
of my more urbanized co-workers. But it was still to some degree a
strange thing to see, and I suspect it will largely die out within the
next couple of generations as the conventional wisdom comes to see it
as barbarism, plain and simple.

-cwk.