A lot of the guys flying warbirds are ex-military but this is not the case all the time as the warbird movment is starting to realise that fast jet time is not relivent to flying a high powerd piston engine taildragger.
A new breed of airshow pilot is starting to fly the warbirds , these people have flown things like the Cap 20 or the Extra 300 a far better trainning ground for a Spitfire or Mustang than flying a Hawk.
Please dont get me wrong I'm not slagging off the ex-fast jet guys they are at the top of the profession when flying fast jets but it is not posable to step from fast jet to warbird without going via the modern high powerd taildragger.
At one time the military had a lot of taildraggers albeit low powerd ones but now most military pilots will not have flown even the DHC-1.
Last edited by A and C; 26th September 2004 at 13:49.