I got to see it fly right after they finished the restoration.
Personally, I'm against flying these historic, one of a kind aircraft. Once they're gone, that's it.
“Personally, I’m against flying these historic, one of a kind aircraft. Once they’re gone, that’s it.”
That’s the risk we take flying rare and historic aircraft. The saddest site in the world to me is to see a hand-crafted beauty sitting in a museum. They were built to fly, and the young of future generations should see and hear them fly.
To see the smiles of Children when they hear the roar of the big engines as they pass overhead is pure joy. A living, breathing and fire-spitting flying example comes across far better as a way to bring the past to life, than a static display of dusty aluminium sitting in a dank building.