Ayrton Senna 🇧🇷 and Nigel Mansell's last fight in Adelaide 1992 🇦🇺 #F1
https://media.sully.site/posts/senna-and-mansell-for-the-last-time/
@SeventhMagpie I'm jealous!
@SeventhMagpie Which aeroplanes? I saw the MP4/6 at Goodwood Festival of Speed a decade ago. It was terrific.
@sullybiker Tupolev 154 and Ilyushin 86. I began assembling TU-154 at some point, even painted some parts, but have not finished it since. :)
@SeventhMagpie Two classics! I can only get close to these on YouTube now :(
@SeventhMagpie In 2009 I got up close to lots of Cold War classics in Krakow. So many of them just sitting in the field behind the museum.
@sullybiker That's sad to hear.
We have a Tupolev 144 in Monino museum in Moscow, that is being restored by a handful of enthusiasts out of their own pockets and some private donations. No funding, no nothing. It's a real shame. A legend should be treated with more respect.
@SeventhMagpie In the 90s I volunteered at a museum and helped on the restoration of a Halifax mk 3. The only one in the world.
@SeventhMagpie they would have killed to get some soviet fighters but it was hard enough to get western types. Peace treaty is one obstacle. Warplanes are to be counted or scrapped. It's not easy to get them to museum status.
@sullybiker Well, TU-144 is not a warplane. :) But there have been so few of them. They are important history.
State spends so much money on various stupidity. It could've funded aviation museums at least a little bit. Take Monino, for example. So many planes and helicopters are slowly falling into disrepair, because there's this much that a few volunteers can do.
@SeventhMagpie You might be amazed what motivated enthusiasts can achieve.
@sullybiker But MP 4/4 is a legend. ;)
@SeventhMagpie Indeed it is. I'm sentimental about the '91 car because that's the year I really started following closely. I've got the F1TV subscription and spent a lot of hospital and recovery time watching the 80s archives.
@sullybiker Ah, classic Marlboro livery! :) I'd say, it's still a symbol of F1, although the races are mnow very different from what they used to be.
I have a McLaren MP 4/4 model kit from Tamiya lying in my closet. :) Can never make time to start assembling it.
...also two Soviet airplanes, and another McLaren. 😅