WWII planes in Texas Barn

[Dav8or]

Sad deal for sure....

But.... There is a good chance the car crash was alcohol related .. IMHO.

Yeah, it sound sad, but why did you feel the need to add the last bit?? I don't get it.

 

[1600vw]

Typical AOPA crap, a day late and a dollar short. These planes were sold in one lot a long time ago for more than he was asking.

If his son had not been killed in an auto accident, I bet dollars to donuts that we would not have heard of these airplanes until his son did something with them.

When he said his son was killed not long ago, I was expecting to hear from an aviation related event not auto accident. I about fell over when he said auto related. You could see this effected him as it would me.

A very good man, he is thinking of his grand kids, this sale was all about the grand kids. From his speaking you could tell he was not standing by and letting someone screw those kids out of these airplanes. IMHO

Great to hear he got more then he was asking.

My Hat goes off to this man.

Tony

 

[kyleb]

If you read my earlier post, I said that it is his property, his choice. That doesn't mean I have to like, nor respect that choice. K?

You realize that without his efforts, most of that stuff would have gone to the scrappers 40 years ago. There was no warbird movement in 196X, and the Spanish were giving the airplanes away for nothing because there was no demand for unsupported, high maintenance, expensive to operate, and hard to fly aircraft.