Originally Posted by METO Guido

Yes


Always brightens my day to see a storied legend turning back the hands of time. All the sweat & money, love really, to make it happen. Of course none of that can begin to rationalize the loss if passengers or bystanders get smoked when aging aircraft component failure, inadequate system redundancies or exemption from modern airworthiness standards becomes causal. Sat over a beer and watched cruise ship excursion groups lined up on the dock boarding Beaver & Otter floatplanes at Ketchikan a couple years ago. All jammed in there, faces peering from the tiny windows, getting ready to see a glacier. Remember thinking, are you people *&^%#@! nuts?