Graham,
Sometimes, just sometimes, one needs to take a step back and have another look at what one writes.
Ahhh! Tis good to see that good old-fashioned mob rule still thrives here! Anyone who expresses an individual thought that is different to the clique gets set upon by a pack of rabid dogs, spewing forth vitriol
I am not, nor never will be a part of any mob or pack and absolutely agree with individuality where it is required, so please don’t generalise just because it does not suit you or your views personally.
If anyone cared to actually ‘read wot I wrote’ (to paraphrase the late Ernie Wise) they would clearly see I never said it was not a good achievement or that the aircraft designers and builders did not deserve credit for their efforts.
If I might be permitted to offer you a tip here, I think that if you had given due credit for the acheivement (irrsepective of your view of the finished product), people would not have been so critical.
The fact is, even in your lengthy defensive answer(s), (which I have read), I still surprisingly do not see your actual personal recognition of the groups actual achievement!
Please tell me what part of “That is not, nor ever WILL be a Mosquito – Bishop and Geoffrey de H must be spinning in their graves!” leaves anybody with the impression that you were merely being ‘tongue-in-cheek sarcasm’?
I may not be a ‘prestigious’ writer or the most educated of individuals, but that simple statement, written in the way you had done, and along with the previous paragraphs observation and your further comment “then I will certainly not apologise!!”, left me in no doubt that there was actually nothing ‘tongue-in-cheek’ about your comment in the first place.
Surely as a writer allied with the research you state you have done on original Mosquito aircraft, you would find it easier than the rest of us, to get your considered comments accross clearly?
So I read ‘clearly’ that you had nothing good to say about this particular project or the people behind it et-al and so far offer nothing to change it either.
For the record, I feel the same about any aviation replica, facsimile, sub-scale or whatever. I’m sorry guys, but to my eyes they just do not look right when compared to the original…….blah, blah, blah……. you name it, most replica’s suffer from that in one way shape or form. Proportion and ‘finess of design’ goes out the window and it offends my sensibilities!
So what are your views on the Buchons (either with DB’s or Merlins), converted T-6’s into Zeros etc or the MB-5, P-38 or Yak-3’s to name but a few then?
With your comments above, I have to conclude it as an ‘absolute’ that unless it is an ‘original’ you care not for it?
What a great shame!!!!!
But then this does ask what constitutes an original to you?
What percentage of an aircraft has to be original to you before you will no longer accept it as an original, taking into account that there is unlikely to be many ‘original’ aircraft (as per from their actual build) still with us?
It is – to me – just mutton dressed as lamb! I just cannot see how that can ‘be honouring the original design’ or how it can be a ‘tribute’.
Don’t you mean Lamb dressed as Mutton?
The tribute is that fact that only certain aircraft are chosen over many, many types that are no longer extant, even though some are built with flying original examples ‘a plenty’ in some cases!
I remember a few years back someone was offering Ferrari Testarossa kit-cars that could be – and I quote – ‘…powered by a 1800cc four cylinder Ford engine’ I dread to think what Enzo was up to over that!
That is different to building your own designed and made Enzo replica which would be in the same vein that is the topic of this thread with engine selection being the most practical and affordable to the builder.
So what if an Enzo replica has an 1800cc engine?
On the other hand, have you ever seen an AC Cobra or GT40 replica with anything other than a honking great V8 fitted?
I havent, but thats not to say they don’t exist, but in general no-one chastises these replicas, except real Cobra & GT 40 owners and perhaps other replica owners wanting to feel good about their own steeds. The general public on the other hand, would not necessarily know the difference and in most cases wouldn’t care either, but they like the look of them regardless.
I was expressing my opinion, my views – I refuse to go along with the pack, not feeling that way – if I’m an ‘ignorant minority’, then so be it… but at least I can and am prepared to think for myself, and am not afraid to express my views in a calm and considered manner!
Nobody says you have to agree with everyone else either some or all of the time, but what people do not like to see (including me) is when something is not deserving of, but recieves from some, nothing other than dismissive and disparaging comments which are not necessarily justified and with no actual acknowlegement of hard effort and achievement, in the same way I acknowledge your involvement in keeping some lovely old birds up to scratch at OW.
Alas I will guess that there will not be too many on here that do that?
Bomberboy (pseudonym used…….absolutely and all of the time)
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