Stephan Wilkinson wrote:
If you want to know how much somebody is selling something for and want a straight answer, I should think you'd ask them, rather than asking a largely anonymous forum for gossip, quesses, rumors and wishes. It sounds a little bit like you're trying to impress the board ("Nobody asked, but I've owned a Staggerwing...") with your assumed capability to bid on a warbird.
And having been a member of the board for one day--busy boy, 17 posts--I'm not sure how you can make such broad generalizations as saying you "can't get a straight answer."
If you go back and look at the thread about the Mosquito you will find that I had considerable difficulty getting a straight answer to a question I asked this morning. I came to this thread and asked a simple question and was hoping to get a simple answer. Instead I got the tired old chestnut about "if you have to ask.." Being the second occurence in a very short space of time this morning I made a statement about not being able to get a straight answer. That is how I justified such a broad generalization.
My reason for mentioning the Staggerwing was to make the point that I've been told before that if you have to ask you can't afford it and also found out that it isn't always true. It was also to point out that I have already owned a Staggerwing, wasn't interested in knowing the price of the one for sale and was planning on possibly moving up to a fighter. As of right now it is nothing more than "possible" but haven't made a decision yet. I didn't mention it because it wasn't related to the conversation, but I've also owned a couple other nice airplanes. None of those were for sale in the Pardue listing so I didn't need to mention that I had once owned a fairly nice Tiger Moth. The Staggerwing was listed so I mentioned it. If you look just a little down from that post you will find that I did go to the responsible party to ask about the price. I hadn't heard back from them when I made my original post and I was hoping to get a faster answer. To go further, as was pointed out by 51Fixer, lots of different people post here. Warbird pilots, mechanics, restorers, owners and such. I was going on the off chance that one of them might have the answer to my question.
I had most of the day off so I went through a few dozen pages of WIX. I commented on some threads. Sorry if you were offended by me not getting here earlier in the year so I could space my questions and posts out in a manner more pleasing to you but I just found out about this board from a magazine a few days ago. I asked a few questions about Canadian markings on an F-86 for a possible model project (the only thread that I actually got any help, thanks to those people), I got involved in a couple of conversations. The post count starts to run up and before you know it I was up to double digit posts. I'll ask my Rabbi to be sure but I didn't know I was doing wrong. I didn't know there was a time frame/post count/involvement quota on this board. I swear I didn't see it in the forum rules.
I'm not worried about impressing anybody here and I don't think anybody here is too worried about what I have to say about possibly buying an airplane. Least of all you, obviously. But I still fail to see why you care about it enough to make a post. But while you're here, being critical of the things I post and the frequency, it's not an assumed capability to bid on a warbird. I've been fortunate to have the ability to buy a few nice things from time to time. While I can't swing a five million dollar P-38, I can scrape a few shekels together to possibly get one of the fighters a little lower on the financial scale. But look at it this way. If any part of this boards goals might be to get the involvement of people that might own, fly or work on warbirds then you are certainly not helping those goals.
This place has a heck of a welcome wagon.
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