bzguy:
That' funny, because my flying buddy is exactly like that as well. I think we have owned each other's planes from either helping each other, or just crashing and swapping. I have another friend up the street from me who I just met this past spring, and he did a nose dive with an older P-51. I told him that I thought it could be fixed, and he said "go ahead, you can have it" It's currently back together, but I really think it's too old to fly, so my buddy came over and we converted it to a static model. When the guy up the street stopped by a month later, he saw it hanging in my shop, and asked me if it was ready, but I told him I was going to leave it as is, simply a display. He just smiled. Just by looked at this plane, you could see all of the laber this older guy put into this thing, so I use it as an inspiration rather than one of my flying models.