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Re: Them & Us
Posted by Ed Likes on Mon Mar 11, 2002 12:18:22 AM
In reply top Re: Them & Us posted by Ed Likes on Sun Mar 10, 2002 04:02:52 PM
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: : If you are a warbird owner you can say what you like and
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: : our opinions are Gospel and should be taken as such with
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: : t question, you should also receive a regular rim-job as
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: : s your right as a person who is considerably richer than
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: : he average pleb. Warbird owners, and NO-ONE else, are th
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: : be-all and end-all when it comes to deciding historical
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: : curacy, or not. Warbird owners are happy to talk to the
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: : wly enthusiast if we can help them with free volunteer l
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: : our, some warbird owners will recquire a regular blow-jo
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: : though to keep them happy.
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: : The Average Enthusiast:-
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: : If you are an enthusiast without money you cannot say an
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: : hing and your opinion means absolutely nothing anyway, y
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: : should also receive a regular tongue-lashing from your
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: : tters (warbird owners) when you get a bit too near the t
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: : th. The average enthusiast knows absolutely nothing abou
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: : what is historically accurate and what is not, so for yo
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: : own sake just don't bother saying anything at all. What
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: : ittle money we pay to warbird owners for the priviledge
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: : viewing their aircraft is not appreciated, we just don'
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: : pay enough.
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: : Go ahead, slap me down and tell me I'm wrong.........I'm
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: : inding it very tedious listening to the Average Warbird
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: : ner telling the Average Enthusiast to shut up and get ba
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: : in their holes.......
I want to throw my 2 cents in on this subject. I have met a number of Warbird Owners over the years some well known and others not well known but have had nothing but a positive imput and response from everyone I have met over a course of about 25 years. There maybe someone who is a Warbird Owner that has had an off day, but who hasn't. I have people who come up to me as a collector car owner who want to talk about my car and I certainly try to listen, and I know that this applies to the Warbird Owners who I have met and talked with and flew with and have wrote about a couple of them.