Originally Posted By: oldgrognard
Because the SCAR has no soul. A lifeless unattractive thing that has a butt-ugly Space Boot buttstock and ... it's a side-folder.


This. It's why I go flying in a Tiger Moth, Cub or similar vintage plane rather than a modern 172. The old kites have soul and personality.

In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!