Why bring this one up? Post count low and need to boost it?
Quite simply: My posting had absolutely NOTHING to do with "post count". Instead, and quite benignly, this is a bit of MILITARY VEHICLE HISTORY that the larger percentage of our SS Membership most probably has never heard. Since most of the members are TRUCK ENTHUSIASTS, their exposure to any aviation history - Good, Bad, or Ugly - is both limited yet still appreciated.
In the general aviation, and Warbird Community in particular, any mention of Darryl Greenamyer is a really bad thing due to the Kee Bird event.
This particular subject remains so sore to this day that any respectable member of the aviation community simply does not mention it; it is understood that all those involved in the community already know the event.
Thanks for this.
I am presuming you to be referring to "in the AVIATION community" with that assertion. Again, this SS Website is for Military Vehicle Enthusiasts of ALL the various and assorted genre.
It is with the utmost respect that I empathize with your "soreness" over this historical event.
Those who have followed my personal history recorded in these Forums already know that I worked for Mitsubishi Aircraft International for about 7 years. I worked side by side with Japanese Engineers and Technicians from the parent corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Nagoya, Japan. It was Mitsubishi (Japan) that built the 10,000+ Zeros - some of which were the attackers of Pearl Harbor.
Was there cause for anyone - Americans or Japanese - within the now multi-national post-war Mitsubishi to be "sore" and to hold hurt, hatred, and resentment for either side's part in that war??? Of course there was.
Did we avoid engaging in discussions about the war with Japan? Absolutely NOT!!! Most of us were the baby-boomers of the post-war veterans - although we had a few older employees who had actually been IN that war as well! One particular engineer - he was part of the team that had interviewed me for the job - was a "nuclear mutant", his mother had him in her womb when Nagasaki was nuked. He stood more that 6' 2" tall and barely had mushroom-like stubs for thumbs. (I understand his feet were also deformed but I never saw them.) All were effects of RADIATION on him as a fetus. Might he have had any reason to "BE SORE" or harbor animosity toward his American counterparts??? NEVER. "Sam" as he was known in Texas was far stronger character than that.
In any situation, we can choose to take offense. Or we can take the higher road, see the facts from an open perspective, and most probably learn from it rather than repeat it.
I assure you. No offense was intended. None should be assumed.
Wow!
I would be willing to wager that Chappy wasn't being "intentionally" offensive to the aviation community. Not "everyone" knows about it.....so......
Appreciate you "informing" us...............
Sometimes, history is good to remember, it might help prevent it from occurring again.
Just my two cents......
Yes, mp, you're perception was spot-on.
I too appreciate being now informed that some in the aviation community look at the Kee Bird's loss as a SNAFU of the most exemplary kind. I also felt angst (as a former aviation engineer) when I learned the history. Just as I did not erase the factual history of WWII from any further discussion, I will not stick my head in the sand and ignore the lessons to be learned. By sharing this, and having open, honest, and respectful discussion we can together learn in a manner once suggested by Albert Einstein.....
(Paraphrased)
"The same intelligence used to create the problem CANNOT be used to correct it."
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