Its great to here its possible this Me109 will bless our Airshow curcuit here in 2006, She will be most welcome and undoubted be the star of many shows, She will be treated well here like ALL our warbirds are.
I did not know that Ed Russell had only let UK based pilots fly his Warbirds so far i think that is a fine testament to the skills of our pilots here and proves that the owner trusts the pilots.
I find the comment that in the UK Warbirds are flown like Pitts Specialsa bit offensive , Yes they loop but its flying using energy management i.e Speed for height, Height for speed, Its certainly not Spitfires doing Hammerhead turns(Thats a comment i’d expect by a uneducated journalist in some cheap newspaper really, Not from a fan of Warbirds).
Yes we have had accidents with Warbirds here, But 2004 went without any fatality involving a Warbird here at a Airshow and 2005 has been accident free until now and i hope and pray the season will end this way also, Sadly in the USA some accidents have happened, Its a sad fact of life, Accidents happen,Some will be pilot errors some mechanical failures some will be due to other things we can not control such as weather etc.
Lets get back to the story at hand though the prospect of a Me109 on the curcuit here next year its a dream waiting to come true i think.
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