I am pleased to see this tread. Thanks for starting it hairyplane. I also feel that this needed to be said after the RNHF Firefly tread.

My opinion is also that planes who crashed must be considerd as a source of spare parts or as new projects. If we burn al the planes who have had a fatal crash, there wouldn’t be much warbirds around. Some of the planes who fly today might have had a accident while they where in service.

I am pleased to see the spit IAC 161 of HFL being restored to airworthy state and isn’t the catalina who crashed in the sea a few years ago also under restoration. This would not have been possible if the wrecks had been smelted after there accident.

PS: If I would die in a crash with a vintage airplane, I would be sad (turn in my grave or something like that) if the remains woud be destroyed based upon emotions.

J.V.

I started with a game called Battle of Britain which was a pre-historic combat flightsim for my schneider computer and that was around 1986.

The combat FS that I used the most in the past have been Aces over the pacific, Aces over Europe, Red Baron, European Air War, IL2, …

Later I converted to general FS (I Think around 1993/1995) FS5, FS98, FS2000, FS2002 and now FS2004.

These are only the sims I used frequently and There are a lot more I used on a irregular base. But I won’t type a complete book here. :p

Greets,

J.V.

Good Idea Daz.

Can someone post this link to the BBMF please. 😀

http://www.campbellaeroclassics.com/

J.V.

Take al the time you need on that Buchon. The most important is that the rebuild is done with great care.

It will be nice to see the shape of a Me109 (buchon) in the air again. Here in Belgium, the rebuild of the Buchon OO-MAF has some ‘sudden’ technical problems and there are doubts that it will fly this year. Shame! 😡

Keep up the good work there at Breighton and thanks for those updates davski.

J.V.

That is the second pic of a SPIT-FIRE spit I see here. 😮 The other one was also from a Griffon powered spit. Great Image and thanks for sharing!

J.V.

Thanks for that Reply Sander.

J.V.