stewart clifford wrote:Is as always a great journal although I must say that I'm a bit sad to see the article about the Spitfire flying the channel in the seventies to appear now with such gusto. Don't get me wrong it was a great achievement for them back then but I know that this event had been long retired to the history books until Mike Booths flight last year, then all of a sudden after nearly 40 years someone crawls from the woodwork to say he'd done it first. I feel the article is just about how "we did it first" and that "it was much harder in our day". Some of the text even seems to have copied Mikes story. Why did this need to come out now if not just to say "we did it better"? I think this kind of attitude could discourage people from putting themselves out to acheive and contribute to our hobby. Mockery is all too common place in this hobby, it seems many modellers find it too hard to congratulate each other but yet find it easy to critisise.
Stewart
Alan Cantwell 1131 wrote:Great read Dave, love the all our yesterdays with the JDM spitfire story, i remember them well, how the hell did they end up St Fransisco airport??? not read it fully yet, but the quality is superb,
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