WWII Warbirds Flying Overhead This Weekend

[Netpackrat]

I agree with Randy. What happened, happened, and painting over the swastikas isn't much different in my book, than redacting from history books, sections that deal with the holocaust.

[Aesop]

Not putting them on the paint job of a warbird, vintage or repro, is a bit like grinding them off of collectible firearms: rather pointless and silly.
As long as nobody flying them tries to annex the Sudetenland.
Marketing an insecticide called "Zyklon B" would be beyond the bounds of decency though.

[MarkD]

Uh huh. I used to do Civil War re-enacting, the Confederates carried Confederate Battle Flags (which, contrary to popular belief, is NOT the Stars-and-Bars, that's the Confederate national flag) when historically appropriate, most of them did anyway. One group had one with the red and blue reversed (stars in a red X on a blue background), which I assume was a nod to the PC police, we all thought looked like a Chinese-made tablecloth.

You can be historically accurate, or you can be PC. I'd rather it be historically accurate.

[Vonz90]

As long as nobody flying them tries to annex the Sudetenland.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for annexing the Sudetenland. I just don't want the Nazi's involved.

[Greg]

Around these parts hearing R-2800 engines thundering overhead is a normal occurrence.

DC-6? A-26 water bomber conversion? 18 thundering cylinders of freedom. (No accident that it powered the Hellcat, Corsair *and* P-47.)

Anyway that sounds surprisingly appealing. But we're weird, we *like* living near an airport. We've got 2 local fields within a couple of miles of us. One of which is a regular stop on EAA tours, so we gets B-17's that come by....

[Netpackrat]

DC-6.