So my question is, HOW can you call this racing safe is this is what has been going on? Regardless of that point WHAT is being done to prevent this accident from happening again? Are these aircraft going through these tests and are the modifications are being better documented?
The original subject for the maintenance issue was airshows and, specifically, the maintenance of warbirds and ex-military hardware. An air race is not an air show any more than an IRL race is a car show -- there's necessarily a wholly different ethos surrounding it.
What is your chief issue? Airshow safety, air race safety, or what? Public perception is an argument that's really hard to win, but the reality is that the two things are very different. Life ain't safe -- it has a 100% mortality rate. You pays your money and you takes your chances: Every time you climb into a car, an airplane, venture out in public, go camping, go boating, hiking, bicycling, walking down the street.. you're assuming an increased level of risk. In short, any time you begin to live a life worth living, you increase your odds of dying.
That includes going to an airshow, and it especially includes going to an air race or a car race.
I'm actually going to say that I'm firmly against the dumbing down of life in the name of safety. Humans are breeding like rats, and there are plenty of them out there; life isn't precious so much as it is "common", and while I have lots of things I want to accomplish I'd rather live a good life than a long one. I choose to increase my level of risk to watch an unfettered, all-out air race, and fly acro, and ride motorcycles, and play ice hockey, and fight with live steel and all the other things I've done that have made my life worthwhile. As long as the decision is voluntary, why should anyone be denied these things in the name of their own safety?
~Fox