Re: A B-25 Mitchell is coming to Australia
Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:29 pm
Liberator wrote:So we now wait for the next stage of this pending project, when ever that may happen.
May then we can all find out what aircraft this is and its status?.
Huh? But you're the one that broke the news! Surely we're waiting for you to tell us the status and identity of this currently-hypothetical machine? Hopefully the owner/s okayed the Announcement in the first place.
Lovely news for the Australian scene if true, regardless of whether it's a static or flying example.
Re: A B-25 Mitchell is coming to Australia
Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:03 am
If it is so called "hypothetical", I guess when it arrives into Australia sometime in 2015, you will withdraw your said comment?
It has been announced that a B-25 is planning to arrive in Australia in 2015.
Same thing could be said about my purchase of a warbird item....4.5years ago i told my collector mates i had just brought a F-4 Phantom ejection seat.
What is the difference?.
Nothing.
It was an announcement to my mates and that was it.
They accepted it was coming from overseas to my collection. Some were excited and some werent.
A few months later i showed them my new seat photos after it had arrived and they were impressed.
End of that story. It now does occasional airshows in NSW educating people to ALSE.
Dont see what the big deal about then.....with the B-25 news.
As i said before, we have to wait until the parties are happy to give me more detailed information, which i can then share.
If we annoy people on the forum calling their property "names" etc we may find the nice manners and warbird news tips suddenly gets withdrawn from the public knowledge.
Next youll know it arrived and be demanding why werent we all told?
So just relax and wait.
It has been announced that a B-25 is planning to arrive in Australia in 2015.
Same thing could be said about my purchase of a warbird item....4.5years ago i told my collector mates i had just brought a F-4 Phantom ejection seat.
What is the difference?.
Nothing.
It was an announcement to my mates and that was it.
They accepted it was coming from overseas to my collection. Some were excited and some werent.
A few months later i showed them my new seat photos after it had arrived and they were impressed.
End of that story. It now does occasional airshows in NSW educating people to ALSE.
Dont see what the big deal about then.....with the B-25 news.
As i said before, we have to wait until the parties are happy to give me more detailed information, which i can then share.
If we annoy people on the forum calling their property "names" etc we may find the nice manners and warbird news tips suddenly gets withdrawn from the public knowledge.
Next youll know it arrived and be demanding why werent we all told?
So just relax and wait.
Re: A B-25 Mitchell is coming to Australia
Wed Oct 08, 2014 5:37 pm
I'll gladly withdraw it 
My point is, it seems silly to "announce" something that may or may not happen before it's finalised, especially in a community that prefers to have as much information as to aircraft and owner identity as possible. I've done things like that before myself and suffered great personal embarrassment and inadvertent burning of bridges.
Regarding your analogy of buying the ejection seat - the difference is you had purchased it. The B-25 announcement was not that of a confirmed purchase. Quite different in my mind. The "big deal" is that you have "announced" information about someone else's project before the purchaser themselves have actually finalised the deal.
As far as demanding to know why "we" weren't told when a project surfaces, I'm not sure what you're referring to - I like surprises, and then finding out the story later. I certainly don't find myself seeing an arrival on the scene and "demand" to know why "we weren't told". I am very happy to "relax and wait"
And I'm quite happy to have teasing "warbird tips" (aka "I know something you don't know") vanish as it can be frustrating to get excited about an announcement in that form, only for requests for more information to be rebuffed and the project itself to never eventuate. Perhaps it says something about the various owners that their names are generally not being mentioned with these tips?
Long story short: if an aircraft is changing countries, it's my personal view such an announcement should be made when the ducks are in a row - but that is the owner's prerogative.
My point is, it seems silly to "announce" something that may or may not happen before it's finalised, especially in a community that prefers to have as much information as to aircraft and owner identity as possible. I've done things like that before myself and suffered great personal embarrassment and inadvertent burning of bridges.
Regarding your analogy of buying the ejection seat - the difference is you had purchased it. The B-25 announcement was not that of a confirmed purchase. Quite different in my mind. The "big deal" is that you have "announced" information about someone else's project before the purchaser themselves have actually finalised the deal.
As far as demanding to know why "we" weren't told when a project surfaces, I'm not sure what you're referring to - I like surprises, and then finding out the story later. I certainly don't find myself seeing an arrival on the scene and "demand" to know why "we weren't told". I am very happy to "relax and wait"
And I'm quite happy to have teasing "warbird tips" (aka "I know something you don't know") vanish as it can be frustrating to get excited about an announcement in that form, only for requests for more information to be rebuffed and the project itself to never eventuate. Perhaps it says something about the various owners that their names are generally not being mentioned with these tips?
Long story short: if an aircraft is changing countries, it's my personal view such an announcement should be made when the ducks are in a row - but that is the owner's prerogative.
Re: A B-25 Mitchell is coming to Australia
Wed Oct 08, 2014 5:44 pm
K5054NZ wrote:
And I'm quite happy to have teasing "warbird tips" (aka "I know something you don't know") vanish
THAT!
Andy
Re: A B-25 Mitchell is coming to Australia
Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:31 am
It seems like Peter has changed his mind regarding trying to buy up enough B-17 parts in hopes of making a flyer.
Re: A B-25 Mitchell is coming to Australia
Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:29 am
warbirdcrazy wrote:It seems like Peter has changed his mind regarding trying to buy up enough B-17 parts in hopes of making a flyer.
No I haven't