How big is this “problem” really in the warbird or vintage aircraft world, as compared to the classic cars or art worlds?

Seems to me that most airworthy warbirds and vintage aircraft are regularly displayed at public events, or can be seen flying from publicly accessible airfields (pretty difficult to go flying without anyone seeing you…).

If the “Texas Collections” is the assembly of the BoB film Hispanos, then the owner seems to have been quite accommodating to visits from aircraft magazines and there are a lot of pictures floating around the internet as well.

You can’t blame someone for deciding not to open up their private property to the public.

Poor weather and mountains – why do people keep doing this :confused:

Six people were killed and two severely injured the day before yesterday, when a Cessna 414 departing Innsbruck VFR in poor weather conditions flew into a mountain shortly afterwards…. 😡

I understand your point Stepwilk, but i also hark back to when the venerable Jet Provost was retired from the RAF and came onto the civilian market in quite high numbers. A similarly easy to fly (so i’m told ;)) two seat trainer and also relatively inexpensive to buy, but i don’t recall nowhere near as many fatal accidents as has beset the Albatross, unless my memory is totally shot.
Rob

If you want a relative indication of how prone an aircraft is to enter the accident statistics, then you would need to look at something like this:

(number of accidents)/(number of a/c flying x hours flown)

20 accidents in 14 years with 300 examples flying with private operators doesn’t seem excessive to me. How many Jet Provosts are flying privately?

I seem to recall that one of the reasons for the disposal of the AAC1 was that it was a post -war built aircraft with a different undercarriage to that used in the Ju52/CASA352…

I think “undercarriage” here has to be interpreted as “wheels” only.

It appears to me that none of the currently airworthy Ju 52’s and CASA 352’s have the original narrow, large-diameter wheels, using instead (smaller, wider) wheels with more readily available tires. Surely one wouldn’t have to change much on the undercarriage (e.g. struts) simply to mount different wheels?

Probably two 120hp Jabiru 3300 engines then? “Lyconentals” six-cylinders would probably be a bit over the top…

Many thanks, Tom 🙂