Trolly Aux, You get it……Others who have never tried to put together an airshow just do not understand the dynamic however I do agree when someone advertises a Mk.26 Spitfire as a Supermarine Spitfire. I would be totally pis##d if I turned up expecting a Spit and one of those turned up to fill the slot. A Buchon is a Buchon but it is closer to a BF109 than anything else other than the real thing. Just how many people in the UK or Europe really think there are a fleet of BF109s out there…….Just enjoy what you see out there. We are so privileged just to see them. When a “real” 109 turns up we all know about it beforehand. No-one is trying to pass off a Buchon as a BoB machine, its “representative”: same as they were “representative” in the BoB movie. Again, get over it and enjoy what you see.
Here in the Antipodes is was the mid 1970s before we could see these machines flying apart from government contracts. When the first Wirraway was displayed here by Jock garden 40,000 people turned up. We were told here by the punditds in UK that we were incapable of restoring a Spitfire to cover for the illegal export of one such machine. We are over that type of criticism and just enjoy what we have here, Bet the Kiwis have had their fair share of naysayers about building Mosquitos but they just get on with it. I for one will be happy to see the latest Buchon in a Luftwaffe scheme at Flying Legends! Will there be a whole lot of chest beating about the fact that a certain Cr.42 will be in an Italian scheme rather than its original Swedish markings when it takes to the air? I am guessing not but I shall wait to see.
Just enjoy what is displayed and thank your lucky stars that you can actually see these magnificent machines displayed !
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