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Re: Selfish??

Posted by david j burke on Mon Dec 23, 2002 03:13:28 PM

In reply top Re: Glad someone has built some - You and your children. posted by Richard Allnutt on Mon Dec 23, 2002 02:03:22 PM

In all fairness to him he has got the basis of a tremendous collection together. In order to fly any of them he's going to put them very much in the public domain. I think we cannot knock his natural right to privacy as long as he does have them away from public view -that's until he opens a museum if he plans that.
These machines are objects in the same sense that a valuable work of art is. If an owner chooses to keep it away from public view then so be it but eventually they surface. He is spending large amounts of money in getting his aircraft 'right' and I don't seriously see how anyone can knock him. Everone seems to like knocking Kermit Weeks about aspects of his collection and what he fly's or doesn't as the case may be but they never mention the vast sums of money he spent getting the Sunderland back in the air and safe - something that wasn't going to happen in the U.K.

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