"Peter Dohm" wrote:
I am fairly certain that one of the greatest fears of the big warbird
pilots is the possiblity of taxiing into something, and I really doubt
that any are regecting any solution that they really think will help.
Nevertheless, accidents occasionally happen. I have a video of a Fury
taxiing straight into a parked car (fortunately unoccupied) and, if I
could recall where I got it I would post the link.

The mirror idea, whether fixed or removable, is just to provide a
possible "ace in the hole" to possibly notice a changing situation on
your six.

Just FYI, the article "Taxi Smack" which is he

http://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/sample/taxi.html

has some interesting statistics on taxi accidents. Here's a quote from that
article concerning the kind of accident that happened between the TBM
Avenger and the RV-6:

"The next most common kinds of taxi accidents, with nearly 15 percent of
the total, were collisions between two airplanes. Many involved tailwheel
airplanes in which the pilot did not have enough room to make the required
S-turns or where the pilot was looking out one side when the other side
struck another airplane.
[...]
Another common situation is an airplane approaching a crowded runup area
and either striking a waiting airplane while trying to taxi past it or not
stopping in time and striking the empennage of the waiting airplane with a
prop or wingtip."