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Originally Posted by cheesehawk
Even though Mr. Allen is loaded, why would he spend more of HIS money to put that thing in the air and risk losing it? Every plane, regardless of numbers produced, has a cost associated with flying it, and the rarer the plane, and its parts, the higher that cost becomes.
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I think it's more of a case that they feel confident to fly it, but insurances say "hahaha! You funny fu***r!". They're going themselves along the lines of "this is too much of a precious machine because it's original and complete to think about flying it". They know it's original, but it's not perfect, the main issue standing with reliability of the engine (and probably the fact that they still don't have a kommandgerat for it).
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I'd imagine though, if you were to purchase said plane from him, you could restore it to the point where you would be comfortable flying it. Otherwise we are in no position to make judgements on other people's financial constraints.
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You could, but then you would have to drastically modify an original machine for the sake of airworthiness. They specifically kept original components like circuit breakers and avionics installed, to preserve its original value, and considering how much electrics are in that thing, I wouldn't be too comfortable to fly something that old where pretty much everything is controlled electrically..