I, for one, would not want to live in a world where warbirds did not fly, but could be seen and heard as a great example of what was once cutting edge technology….To see a Bearcat or Sea Fury today is to see the ultimate development of pure piston engined technology, to HEAR such planes is to be dumbfounded by their raw power and aesthetic beauty, the years of refinements that have been poured into them…and to think that we had come THAT far since 1903 (gaining roughly 100 miles an hour in speed every decade!) and the first flight of the Wright flyer is to be awstruck by the accomplishments of creative mankind….

I’ll stop going to airshows when the last of the Warbirds are grounded….I’ll die on the day that the last Corsair flies…luckily, there seem to be more and more joining the ranks of the flying, so my life is so far prolonged….to some folks’ chagrin!

Mark

Ah, a thread where your opinion can get you in a WHOLE lot of trouble…let me DIVE right in…
Having been raised in Denver, a major city of 4 million, and having gone to school with all kinds of folks, I came to appreciate the humor and ways of black people and enjoy them more now than ever…I understand what Rap means to them, it is an art form (yes, ART) that is SUPPOSED to be abrasive to white folks (even though a lot of white folk are now picking up on it)…look what happened the last time black folks invented something of their own, Rhythym and blues music…white folks grabbed it up and tried to call it their own, or at least a bunch of white musicians started playing it and making TONS of money off of it while black artists got a mere pittance in comparison (folks like…oh, Elvis, the Stones, Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn). So, rap music and the accoutriments that go with it are SUPPOSED to **** white folks off while still remaining a BLACK art form, because…and let’s face it…very few hip white folks can even ATTEMPT to do white rap effectively (with the exception of Eminem and the Beastie Boys). When they tire of that (or the white devils figure out how to make a buck off of rap on a regular basis, black folks will come up with something new and exclusively theirs…until we find a way to ‘whiten’ that also…

Just my own bling bling…

Mark