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Re: Historic Flying
Posted by david j burke on Wed Jul 17, 2002 02:28:18 PM
In reply top Re: On the Historic Flying Website Spitfire IAC-161 is posted by PeterA on Wed Jul 17, 2002 10:28:40 AM
Interestingly we covered this a few month's ago in FlyPast and it didn't get much correspondence. It's entirely up to HFL and ARCO as to what they call her - having said that I don't think it's insensitive in any way. It's a simple fact that a company website isn't likely to have details on it which people might find insensitive. Would Railtrack have picture's and details of their unfortunate crashes - I doubt it!
I am in the minority in thinking that the sum total of lives lost in her far outweigh's her value - if I owned her at the time of the crash I wouldn't think twice about running her through the smelter.
That's my opinion and no doubt the are going to be a large number of fatal crash machine's reappearing on the air show circuit which are going to test public opinion.