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Re: Recent Warbird Stats for Presentation
Posted by Ryan Keough on Tue Sep 23, 2003 09:03:22 PM
In reply top Re: Recent Warbird Stats for Presentation posted by Paul Stewart on Tue Sep 23, 2003 08:29:30 PM
I didn't clarify enough when I mentioned the natural disasters... it didn't need to be in the decade definition as it may have sounded. I merely used the decade as a reference point for restorations as I know the list would be much much larger if we included 20 years of restorations.
This isn't meant to be a significant presentation arguing the cause for flying restoration vs. static only but merely a basis for the reasoning why we choose to restore to flight condition, and operate as such in a programmed format. I know that we would never win an arguement over the losses seen in recent years, but we intend to display that loss can be prevented and aircraft can be preserved in a flying form when a program of continual maintenance and high attention to training and safety is met and followed.
Unfortunately however, it is not my presentation and I don't know what it includes beyond this, so my generalizations reflect my confusion as well. I am a fact-finder without a map so to say.
Thanks,
Ryan Keough
: I agree with Gregory, you need to sharpen your definitions
: a lot more.
:
: Also, if, as you say, you are studying the last decade, mo
: st of the tragedies you list took place before 1993.
:
: And are you sure you really want to open up this question
: at all? A quick look at the NTSB website tells me that sin
: ce 1993 there have been 102 accidents involving North Amer
: ican Aviation warbird types with the loss of 58 lives. And
: that's just one manufacturer in just one country. I'm not
: sure this an argument that can be won using statistics.
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: : Ryan
: :
: : I am not sure about that the equation flying=private and
: s
: : tatic=government is always correct.
: : To quote but two examples:
: : 1. In 1986-88, our society, GAVS, clearly a private enti
: ty
: : , funded by members and sponsors, restored to static con
: di
: : tion the only Alfa Romeo-engined Nardi FN.305 trainer in
: e
: : xistence.
: : 2. In recent years, the Royal Navy Historic Flight - in
: it
: : ially a direct part of the RN, now a foundation - has
: re
: : stored various Swordfish, Sea Furies and Fireflies to ai
: rw
: : orthy condition; similarly, the government-run IWM has c
: o-
: : restored an airworthy Hurricane with the private Shuttle
: wo
: : rth collection.
: :
: : I don't mean to nitpick, but just to remind that the use
: fu
: : lness of the data depends a lot on the exact definition
: of
: : the questions. Or, as Mark Twain once said, there are l
: ie
: : s, bloody lies, and statistics.
: :
: : Gregory