ORIGINAL: tinner1
Dragging Dave Brown and Maynard Hill into THIS thread is really out of line, PERIOD, and here's why. The ''implication'' is that the record attempts Hill and Brown accomplished, whether for the trans oceanic flight, record altitude etc, were done in a ''reckless'' manner with no reguard to the publics safety.
I don't agree.
My intent was not to imply that any of the record breaking flights were reckless but if any of them had the unfortunate occasion to collide with a full scale aircraft or an automobile or even a guy on a horse things would have been looked at much differently but since nothing like that happened they are considered "cool" as the event that occurred recently would have if the biplane had successfully done a “fly by” with the smoke on over the hovering model.
My point...had the two aircraft not collided there would have been a cheering crowd and no discussion on the forums about how reckless “whoever” was...
For us to set here now and try to point fingers is a waste...in the end it will matter none what we think about who is at fault...now, maybe we should direct our attention to those things
occurring right now that has the potential of a similar outcome or worse.