109 etc. Riat 2010

[Glider_UK]

Well I think i'll hold off posting any more pics then. The next thing we will be bitching about will be the red crosses on tunics from the crusades. Never deny the past but always learn from it. that is my opinion.

[JtD]

I'll certainly be bitching about something if you hold off posting more pics.

Waiting for more.

[lbuchele]

It´s important here everytime you post a picture of old or present aircraft with a swastika on it to write a post-it , something like : "please I´m not a nazi lover, I not agree with holocaust, I don´t approve Hitler,etc..."
This way you prevent that some people initiate the same boring and senseless discussion about something that everyone here that came to this forum are tired to know:
We like history, we like accuracy,we doesn´t like nazism at all.
Period.
Let´s move to more constructive discussion.

[Glider_UK]

Unless Daffy is Controversial

[swiss]

still a butt ugly airplane

[Xilon_x]

loock this simbol.
this simbol call FASCIO is illegal?

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

loock this simbol.
this simbol call FASCIO is illegal?

It's illegal? Where? In Italy?

Do you now the history of the symbol?

It actually a Roman sign, called lat. "fasces" which means "bundle".

[LukeFF]

A swastika debate that goes bad - gee, who would've guessed that would happen?

[Xilon_x]

loock this video is really SVASTICA is free not illegal but legal WHY?
this 109 fly in modern time whit embleme of svastica.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJ2n...eature=related

yes SVASTICA is free embleme no WAR no HOLOCAUST no NAZZIST is only demonstration of storic event is only SHOW not really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYLyr...eature=related

VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM uaoooooooo this is real sound of airplane zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzvvvvrrrooooooooooommmmmmmmmmm. FANTASTIC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=strKB...eature=related

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by Glider_UK

Well I think i'll hold off posting any more pics then. The next thing we will be bitching about will be the red crosses on tunics from the crusades. Never deny the past but always learn from it. that is my opinion.

Please continue posting your pics, love to see them. This whole swastika discussion that emerges every once in a while here and elswhere is idiotic. Having authentic markings in WW2 era airplane (how authetic the sample picture here was is irrelevant) is a totally different story than having it stiched into the jacket shoulder of a neonazi or whatever.

I can't believe the hysterical reaction even some smart individuals still have on 'forbidden' emblems in historical context. If our way of protecting the ugly part of our history from repeating itself is so much bound on irrelevant details like this we're waaay off the target.

It's like the discussion on immigration in many countries these days: voice any criticism or concern on anything related to that and you're a racists by default who wants to 'close the borders'. After a while in this dialogue the nazi-card is pulled from the deck eventually too.

A good summary of the above is a comment in this thread: "Do you mean you approve of the holocaust?"

WTF?!

Hate to stirr the water of this overdiscussed subject but couldn't help myself even though Blackdog put my thoughts to words pretty well.