Graeme H wrote:Adam, although I can understand your point of view, turning the clock back is not the answer, for example as a daily drive try driving an original EH Holden with drum brakes, and 3 on the tree with no syncro on 1st, compared to what you drive today, if you ever have there is no way you would go back, and you couldn't make any of those old F1's safer unless you did what they have done today, the death toll in F1 has come down dramatically because of the changes.
or in aviation terms try doing aeros in a Tiger Moth, Victa Airtourer or C152 Aerobat (I have) compared to the stuff you have been doing them in, a four point roll is the best you can hope for, even thinking about more will bring you undone.
Nostalgia is great, but reality is such a bitch.
Yep, flown Tiger Moth, CT-4A and learnt my aero's in a C152 Aerobat - all of these easily capable of a 4-point roll, 8-point roll, 16-point roll if one is good enough. Look at what Bob Hoover could do in a Aero Commander - all with no power! Have a read up and look in the aero's being flown back in the 30's in Bucker Jungmeister's by the likes of Alex Papana and Otto Von Hagenburg back at the Berlin Olympics. The Bu-133 is considered still to be the best snap rolling aeroplane ever with excellent control harmony - near perfect. Of course the carbon fibre wonder machines like the Extra 330, Edge 540, etc have much faster roll rates, pitch rates, climb rates etc, but the slower biplanes can fly tighter at lower G (lower wing loading) - of course just like the Pitts, no longer competitive in Unlimited competition aero's but still perform very complex and exciting (to me) aerobatics.
I'm just saying F1 is effing boring these days. It's become so structured, so controlled and just no longer that interesting to me. All the cars look much the same - yawn! The technology is wonderful of course, but honestly I would not be bothered going to the F1 again - that's just me. Of course I'm being hopeless and perhaps pathetically nostalgic because F1 to me used to be far more interesting (I'm not referring to all the crashes either). I do believe more basic raw skill was required in the good ol' days too.
Each to their own of course - many people (in fact 99.99% of the human race) could not give a shit about competition aerobatics because it's pretty boring for spectators - and fair enough too. What makes us interesting as a species is that we all like different stuff - all part of the rich mosaic of life huh! Apol's in advance for the thread drift! I'm just making the point that not all "old stuff" is crap. Seeing Brabham drifting around Albert Park back in the 60's would have been all kinds of awesome I think. Yes I am a romantic and nostalgic fool - and loving it! Maybe I was born too late in the 20th Century? Check out these snap rolls in a Jungmeister back in the 30's - wicked stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P-5uyXy_g
