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Re: Fire in the hole!
Posted by julian on Tue Jun 18, 2002 07:16:39 PM
In reply top Fire in the hole! posted by Scott WRG Editor on Tue Jun 18, 2002 06:22:30 PM
Can't answer it Scott! Except...
In England we have a very well known Tiger Moth, G-ACDC, third DH-82a off the line which was active before the war, impressed into military service and then restored post-war. Since then it has been "written off" three of four times and, because it is historic, has been rebuilt using donor parts. Would the real G-ACDC please taxi forwards. Right, new fuselage, new wings several times over, errr....
No matter, still G-ACDC and long may SHE remain so. Semantics...
The identity depends on the honesty of the individual concerned - in 'CDC's case there is no hidden agenda, she is like Grandfather's axe, which I think is kind of what Paul Coggan was saying ... right Paul?
Personally, if there is no rip-off intended (this is the very "Shangri La" flown by Don Gentile and pranged at so and so in 1940wotsit, plucked dew-fresh from a farmer's pond, given a rag overhaul and test flown for the first time in nearly sixty years...) then what is the problem?None for me, I like to see them fly and the more the merrier. Just my Sterling's-worth...