Originally Posted by Moose47
They should have stood firm and said piss off!
...and lost their major sponsor, the gas (US English) company, that funded the annual 'Airsho' with, you guessed it, the go juice.
Sad, perhaps, but sometimes it ain't acceptable to carry on regardless. I remember that the 1970s BBC Doco on them "Colonel Culpeper's Flying Circus" said with everyone being a Colonel, it was the most communist organisation the reporter had ever seen.
Even good ol Texans need to square the circle sometimes.
The F-82 is complete, in one place and IIRC there was a discussion about it coming out of the typically US legal mess it was in recently. A certain forum supported by a certain flypaper in the UK had the Gen if you want to check.