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Mind if I add an addendum to Tony's post?
Posted by Dan Johnson on Wed Dec 05, 2001 12:58:08 AM
In reply top "and Ladies and gentlemen if u look to the ...... posted by Tony on Tue Dec 04, 2001 03:54:31 PM
I don't post much here, but really enjoy the topics.
I think one important thing is missing from this thread. When I take my kid out to an airshow and we walk around the warbirds, the entire point to me, is what and who they represent.
If it's a rebuilt Spit with more new metal then old, it little matters to me as I tell him about the pilots who flew Spitfires and fought the airwar in them. It represents a time and the people who flew them regardless of the age of the metal.
I'm a Spitfire XII fanatic. Should Peter Arnold ever get EN224 restored and in the air, It will be a Spit XII to me even though I know it's really only the firewall with the ID plate that really is from EN224 while the rest are bits and pieces from other Spits and Seafire XVs.
I guess the bottom line for me is if it's a new build Spitfire, built to the same specs, being pulled around by a Merlin or a Griffon, it will serve the purpose of preserving and retelling the history, which I think is what it is all about in the end.
Dan