Exactly.
People just don't understand that running a Spit/Hurri/109/P51/whateverwarbird costs about $2000 US per hour.
And add to that the fact that most war bird owners consider us flight simmers merely as pests, and you start to see the reality of the issue.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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