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topic 2
Posted by harry on Sat Feb 16, 2002 01:18:01 PM
In reply top Re: Discussion Topics? 2 of 2 RM689, EE606 posted by Joe Scheil on Sat Feb 16, 2002 12:52:07 PM
As for me, I hope to own such a machine and so my views are colored by the greed and requirements of my quest. The industry is driven by demand, supply generally being somewhat secondary. As soon as parts of servicability are sourced back into the pipeline, they will fly. As for the family retaining the wreckage of an aircraft, thats fine, as long as they want to own it its theirs. But if insurance sells it, then they have no say as to its use. Putting artificial boundaries on a market is not legal or ethical. The family of a person, while they loved the person, generally is not driven by the same things, and therefore is somewhat disconnected.
Pilots are not usually killed in honorable fashion, and in fact, surviving pilots generally research the decision chain and find mistakes. As a pilot then you become somewhat disconnected from (emotion?) as you peruse accident reports and postmortems. Perhaps that is how I can look at parts that I own, know that there was a event of tragic consequences associated with it, and yet be able to build something new from it. Would the guy be upset that I was not making a memorial? I don't really have the power to know, but I doubt it.
There are crushing personal losses. In fact there are a couple wrecks I want burned out of existence, revenge perhaps? If I wanted it bad enough I can buy the peices. There are also wrecks that I want to resurrect, to prove that the people were right, that this airplane could have done it, affirming their memory and decision. Friends that have passed? I know that the person that was here before probably worked on other planes, and they live on as tangible proof of his care and skill. Perhaps...the best memorial is one built by the deceased's own hands...
H