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Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
DEAR EDITOR: I am 11 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Warbird Forum.
Papa says, 'Beware the Hun in THE SUN so it's so.'
Please tell me the truth; is there a Warbird Forum?
flyboy.
115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.
flyboy, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they can play on a PS2. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little joysticks.
All minds, flyboy, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great internet of ours, man is a mere insect, a Gee Bee, in his hobby, as compared with the boundless models and planes about him, as measured by the boxes and used film hidden in rooms and garages that reach to the ceiling.
Yes, flyboy, there is a Warbird Forum. It exists as certainly as camouflage and radials and deflection shooting exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Warbird Forum. It would be as dreary as if there were no flyboys. There would be no childlike faith then, no Humbrol paints, no heated discussions about wing loading to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light from the PC monitor which fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in a Warbird Forum! You might as well not believe in Fairey Battles! You might get your Moderator to hire men to watch on all the computers on Christmas Eve to glimpse the Warbird Forum, but even if they did not see a P-51 landing, what would that prove? Nobody goes on vacation to a Warbird Forum, but that is no sign that there is no Warbird Forum. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see a Ju 390A-1 over New York City? Of course not, but that's no proof that they weren't made and tested. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there were unseen and unseeable in World War II.
You may tear apart a PW2800 and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the Allies, could tear apart. Only faith, pictures, a membership, time, and more than one post, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory of a Spitfire or a Dewoitine D.520. Is it all real? Ah, flyboy, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Warbird Forum! Thank Horse! it lives, and will live forever. A thousand years from now, flyboy, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, ww2aircraft.net will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all!!!
Some of my little friends say there is no Warbird Forum.
Papa says, 'Beware the Hun in THE SUN so it's so.'
Please tell me the truth; is there a Warbird Forum?
flyboy.
115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.
flyboy, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they can play on a PS2. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little joysticks.
All minds, flyboy, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great internet of ours, man is a mere insect, a Gee Bee, in his hobby, as compared with the boundless models and planes about him, as measured by the boxes and used film hidden in rooms and garages that reach to the ceiling.
Yes, flyboy, there is a Warbird Forum. It exists as certainly as camouflage and radials and deflection shooting exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Warbird Forum. It would be as dreary as if there were no flyboys. There would be no childlike faith then, no Humbrol paints, no heated discussions about wing loading to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light from the PC monitor which fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in a Warbird Forum! You might as well not believe in Fairey Battles! You might get your Moderator to hire men to watch on all the computers on Christmas Eve to glimpse the Warbird Forum, but even if they did not see a P-51 landing, what would that prove? Nobody goes on vacation to a Warbird Forum, but that is no sign that there is no Warbird Forum. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see a Ju 390A-1 over New York City? Of course not, but that's no proof that they weren't made and tested. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there were unseen and unseeable in World War II.
You may tear apart a PW2800 and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the Allies, could tear apart. Only faith, pictures, a membership, time, and more than one post, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory of a Spitfire or a Dewoitine D.520. Is it all real? Ah, flyboy, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Warbird Forum! Thank Horse! it lives, and will live forever. A thousand years from now, flyboy, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, ww2aircraft.net will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all!!!
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Slow day at work, Njaco? 
