Why do we love seeing/owning/restoring/flying/being around/watching/reading etc etc warbirds? What does the general public think? Will the regulators and the politically correct w@nkers let us keep flying?
Should we call them warbirds?
Oscar Duck – certified aviation nut. :rolleyes:
By: merlin70 - 26th July 2004 at 20:00
Being an antipodian, my command of pure engrish is limted…what I’m trying to do is find out why we do this. I’ve owned/flown more than 30 warbirds yet get “called” by some for calling them warbirds. Don’t know why.
O.D.
My point was centred around the need for the use of the word containing the @. Your concern seems to centre around correctness. Irrespective of whether other people (who do not share the same passion for aviation as you and many others on this Forum) like the term Warbird they are more likely to voice PC views when the W word is used.
Re the question posed, some people like fishing, others like origami. Each tpo their own. I’ll stick to the joys of aviation….
By: Dave Homewood - 26th July 2004 at 07:55
I always thought the term Warbird was a recent one referring to a plane that is part of the historic aviation movement we all love. You know, airshows, flyovers, film flyng, rememberance stuff.
But I was surprised just the other day to see in a book written in the mid-1930’s a photo of ex-WWI pilots and the caption stating they’d all flown “War Birds” during the Great War. So the origins of the term obviously go back to the earliest days of aerial combat I guess.
By: oscar duck - 26th July 2004 at 07:20
Chris, I think you’re correct in your view that the term “warbird” seems to apply to modern, meaning maybe ’30’s onwards and that post WW2 machines have become slowly accepted as well ie. “jet warbirds”.
I was asked wwhy are we so passionate about these flying or flyable relics and found it hard to answer in a few words..
By: duvec - 26th July 2004 at 02:53
Warbirds
OD,
I agree that the term “Warbird” is seen by some as somewhow not “appropriate” I have not been able to come up with a universal term that is as succinct as Warbirids. It is all encompassing of aircraft used by the military across all areas aircraft operations over all periods.
Having said the above I have to say calling a SPAD. Camel or LVG a Warbird just doesn’t seem right! I don’t know why I hold this view. Maybe First World War aircraft are just so rare and so rarely flown. Shuttleworth and Cole Palen’s collections being the exceptions of course.
Chris
By: oscar duck - 25th July 2004 at 12:12
Being an antipodian, my command of pure engrish is limted…what I’m trying to do is find out why we do this. I’ve owned/flown more than 30 warbirds yet get “called” by some for calling them warbirds. Don’t know why.
O.D.
By: merlin70 - 25th July 2004 at 12:02
Oscar Duck
Not dure I follow the purpose of your thread. PS there appears to be a syntax error in the first paragraph. Should that read activists? 😉
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