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Old 06-06-2010, 02:02 PM
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Default RE: Does age have to do with what airplanes you fly?

ORIGINAL: LargeScale88

Hello,

I am doing this thread to see what other people not in my club think.

I'm 15 years old.
Have been flying for 6 years.
I want to start flying warbirds, but the comments I hear at my field about me flying airplanes like warbirds are really making me mad, and making me mad because they base age on what airplanes i should be flying.
I have waayyyy more experience flying these things than they think. I try to let what they say go in one ear and out the other.

So my main question is, what do other people think about a 15 year old flying a Don Smith B-17 bomber or Nosen P-51?
P.S. I do have warbird experience if you want to know.

Thanks

Your flying a Don Smith b-17?? awesome.
The guys atmy previous club would treat me in a similar fashion as I for years had been the youngest member until 2 years ago.
I've got a 13.5 pound .60 size royal corsair and they tried to tell me they wouldn't allow it because I wasn't experienced enough. New club now and she flies just fine but does so with a 23cc weed eater gas conversion engine. Also old club didn't like my giant 14 foot 40 pound Queen, and she's IMMA legal with a zenoah G62. Queen has flown for over 6 years, borrowed engine off it last year for a 73 inch cap 232 to use.
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