Omalley1537
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Sean
The CAF's schtick about "condemn[ing] these aircraft to becoming dusty, soulless relics in museums and within pages of history books, soon to be forgotten along with what they stood for and the price that was paid by a generation of people to preserve our freedoms" has little to do with an aircraft which was not only the sole example of an important historical design that presaged the giant XB-35 and YB-49 bombers (which were intentionally destroyed by the Air Force), it was the only tangible link to the genius of Jack Northrup.
Planes of Fame exhibited massive hubris by believing they could fly this treasure repeatedly without consequence. The outcome shows the N-9M was exactly what it appeared to be, a test aircraft that was 77 years old with Franklin engines which were known to be fragile, the cause of a 2006 inflight engine fire that damaged the aircraft, and almost certainly the reason the N-9M has been swept up in a pile and carted away.
It should not have been flying.
And your last line is the type of nanny-thinking that has led to the loss of many on our freedoms in the name of “think of the children”...
If I own a one of a kind aircraft and want to paint it pink with purple polka-dots, it’s my right to do so.