A nice thing happened yesterday.

[WTE_Galway]

I think the problem with the P51 for many people is familiarity, there are so many around. It features on 1000s of trashy history channel shows wherein we are told over and over it "won the war" and we see them at Reno every year. But more significantly every airshow seems to features one or two examples.

Unfortunately being told "hey, there is an airshow 2 hours up the road and it features a P51" just does not have the same effect as being told ""there is an airshow 2 hours up the road and it features an Emil or Hurricane or he111 or p38 or b17 etc etc".

[Robert]

I like the P-51 and think it's a classy looking, deadly airplane. That said, if a local airshow had both a Storch and a P-51, I'd go there for the Storch before the P-51. Familiarity does breed a form of contempt, and like Galway alludes to, the P-51 historical prominance has been covered and exagerated to the detriment of itself and other planes that were just as, if not more important to other countries.

[Al Schlageter]

See all kinds of WW2 a/c flying around as http://www.vintagewings.ca/ is across the river.

There is also the Canada Aviation and Space Museum http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/v...at_the_museum/