Plane lands on highway in TN....pilot killed

[Tram]

I would like it much better if these things were firmly tied down in a museum.

Skyline

Yeh, it would be soo much cooler to see our past sitting indoors than out and flying like it was built to do..

 

[Britpilot]

WRONG, two merlins beats it!

Wrong, four Merlins on an Avro Lancaster.:beer:

The RAF maintains a fleet of war birds as a flying tribute to those who served in WW2. Known as the Battle of Britian Memorial Flight, the aircraft are flown and maintained by the RAF. National Heritage preserved and flying as a reminder to current and future generations.

 

[FlyFlyFly]

It is a sad thing that the pilot died but these confederate air force and rich guys are steadily crashing our national heritage. I would like it much better if these things were firmly tied down in a museum.

Here, let me pile on:

Skyline,

I would suggest that you take the direct approach on this problem. Rather than trying to force someone to do what YOU would like with THEIR property, why don't YOU come up with the means to buy a warbird and place it in a museum. I would suggest you not even spend the energy replying to this post, but instead make an appeal to like minded folks to form an organization devoted to the raising of money to facilitate the grounding of warbirds.

I am sure you will find plenty of support right here on this board...

NOT.

 

[Tram]

I guess that I am a threat to you somehow. Perhaps I should take it as a complement, or maybe I am touching a nerve. In any case I am glad to have reached you.

Skyline

No, it's not that your a threat or that you are touching a nerve.. it's just that you are a tool..

 

[NookyBooky]

OK Knucklehead

Warbirds were meant to kill and to be killed, so I guess they are fulfilling their mission.

Will no one acknowledge the fact that we are loosing them at an alarming rate? Once they are gone it's over.

How sad will you be when the last one augers in? It is short sighted and selfish to fly these things. We are bringing an end to the entire fleet one at a time. I think it is a selfish crime.

It makes me sad every time I read another article about a smoking hole that was a rare piece of history. You guys are like loggers. They are not happy until the last tree is down. They never stop to realize that they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Greedily killing the one thing they love most one at a time.

Skyline

You are posting very good evidence that you have the reading comprehension skills of a f*cking dung beatle.

However, like I said, you may very well get your wish. If the increasing scarcity of parts does not ground them, then sometime in the distant future the increasing scarcity of recoverable fossil fuels will. But, at least for the foreseeable future, the warbird population will continue to grow. I can personaly speak for the fact that, over the next several years, the P-47 population will likely grow at least in the neighborhood of 50%, and the Tigercat and B-29 population may very well double.

There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 350 Mustangs in flyable condition, which is a higher number than many of our current military aircraft. Should we ground the B-1B, B-2, F-117, B-52, C-141, C-5, EA-6, etc. too?

 

[Tram]

Well.. The Navy's doing their best to ground anything but the 18's..

 

[NookyBooky]

Well.. The Navy's doing their best to ground anything but the 18's..

Yes, it appears that they are. Such is the power of the Boeing lobby.

 

[TonyC]

It has come to my attention that Vance was a retired FedEx Captain. Yepp, he's got bazillionaire painted all over him.




Seriously, grounded hulks collecting dust in a few museums around the world can be appreciated by a few people. Flying specimens of those same airplanes travelling the country can be appreciated my untold mutliples more of people. More people see them, and more people can be motivated to financially support the efforts to restore and care for them. I applaud their efforts.


Rest in Peace, Captain Vance.




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[Skyline]

You Guys

Dudes,

Man you guys are sure a nice bunch. I am encouraged by some of your posts however. First of all I had no idea that there are 350 mustangs still out there. I have been flying for 20 years and have only seen one.

And secondly someone posted about how the lack of parts will probably ground most in short order.

Thanks for all the warm and positive messages. As I said many times before it is just my opinion and fortunately for everyone's sake I am not the president of the universe,, yet.

Best of luck to you all, Stay crazy and lets Keep them flying !!!
(And not crashing as much)

Skyline

 

[Fury220]

Dudes,

Man you guys are sure a nice bunch. I am encouraged by some of your posts however. First of all I had no idea that there are 350 mustangs still out there. I have been flying for 20 years and have only seen one.

And secondly someone posted about how the lack of parts will probably ground most in short order.

Thanks for all the warm and positive messages. As I said many times before it is just my opinion and fortunately for everyone's sake I am not the president of the universe,, yet.

Best of luck to you all, Stay crazy and lets Keep them flying !!!
(And not crashing as much)

Skyline

...so maybe you're not a total douche after all, eh? Just kidding...I'm glad we can all kiss and make up. :beer:

 

[Tram]

First of all I had no idea that there are 350 mustangs still out there. I have been flying for 20 years and have only seen one.

That's because they're not in all the museums your going to, they're out flying at airshows..

Get out of the museum and go see an airshow man..

I saw a P-51, A-10, F-16 and F-4 do a flight together last weekend.. Something to see.... Also caught a P-51, F-15, P-47 and A-10 fly a few months ago.. The sweetest thing about watching those 4 fly together is that as they fly by, the loudest bird of the bunch is the merlin powered one.

Heck, if you have $1,500 you can get an hours flight in a P-51..

 

[Skyline]

Air Shows

Tram,

I live in the Northwest and we don't really have any airshows like that. We only have one museum and it has a corsair. I have only seen a B-17 one time.

Skyline

 

[Tram]

Ahh.. You need to make plans to attend Oshkosh one year..

 

[NookyBooky]

Ahh.. You need to make plans to attend Oshkosh one year..

Or at least Chino, Reno, or Midland. Oshkosh does put them all to shame though.

 

[KigAir]

There's a P51 based at KCRG.

 

[Tram]

Yeh, Reno is something to see.. I was there in 2003 when Dago broke 500 but they DQ'd him for having a team member out of the member box or something stupid like that..

 

[NookyBooky]

Yeh, Reno is something to see.. I was there in 2003 when Dago broke 500 but they DQ'd him for having a team member out of the member box or something stupid like that..

Dago was DQ'd last year ('04) for cutting a pylon by a huge margin, it was close to a quarter mile if I remember correctly. It was still one of the best races I've seen though. This year was kind of lame, at least it was for the Unlimited Gold.

I was there in '03 when the "records" were set, but I don't remember that incident.

 

[EagleRJ]

If you'd like to have a go at Reno yourself, Dago Red is for sale- on Ebay!


I was at Reno in '02 (?) when the Miss Ashley II was lost. It was a bad set of circumstances. There was nothing the pilot could have done. One had to wonder about the engineering they did on that plane, though. It was a scratchbuilt Mustang fuselage with a clipped Learjet wing, running on a Rolls-Royce Griffin V-12.

 

[Tram]

Yeh, they took his record in 03' for something silly about a pit crew member.. Thus why the records were not "offcial."

 

[EagleRJ]

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