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Get Rid Of Warbirds At Oshkosh
I'm prejudiced. Of course I'm prejudiced. In 5000+ flight hours, I've
never come as close to a midair as I did at Oshkosh 1999. Oshkosh Tower: "BlueOnBlue Cessna, number three for runway 27. Ercoupe put it on the numbers. Flight of three T6s, cross over runway 27, right downwind for runway 27, caution the Cessna at the gravel pit." (Warbird flight leader) "OK fellers, let's show them what a warbird arrival is like." The Cessna is looking, looking, and turns downwind. The copilot screams, "Oh, my God " and the pilot turns hard left, only to see two wings perhaps fifty feet below. Tower tells warbirds that they nearly had a midair with a Cessna. Warbird flight leader, "Then tell tell the little b@$+@rd to get out of our way." I've about had it with the arrogant warbird *******s. The only reason that there are warbirds at Oshkosh is that Pope Paul flew a warbird and wanted to invite his cronies. Pope Paul is out to pasture. Nobody else at Oshkosh gets gas money except the warbirds. Guess where the gas money is coming from? Your inflated entry ticket prices. You are paying for those stupid idiots to aggrandize World War II, which damned few of us can relate to. So this afternoon, one of the WWII warbird people who has more money than good sense, and who never learned how to clear the taxiway in front of his aircraft, killed one of our own. There has to be some sort of payback for this sort of stupidity. Warbirds, you are not welcome at Oshkosh. Jim |
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