Talk:Republic RC-3 Seabee

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[edit] History section

A good chunk of the history section really belongs in a bio of Percival Spencer. --Allan McInnes (talk) 01:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Percival Spencer wouldn't get many viewings. His only real claim to fame was the development of the Seabee. There's no way to seperate the two, so best to keep it all here so people can learn the whole story at one time. It makes an interesting tale.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ken keisel (talk • contribs).

The problem is that the history section, while interesting, is basically a digression into the history of "Spence"'s career, rather than a history of the Seabee. If "Spence" isn't notable enough to rate a separate article, then why even bother providing a career synopsis here? Im my opinion, the history section would be much tigher and more readable if it focused on just those aspects of "Spence"'s career directly relevant to the Seabee. --Allan McInnes (talk) 20:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

If this was just an aircraft developed by a team from Republic I would agree that little information about Mr. Spencer would be necessairy (we don't go into details about the designers of most military aircraft in articles), but in this instance Republic didn't develop the SeaBee, Mr. Spencer did on his own, and sold the design to Republic Aviation. Further, Mr. Spencer was involved in the development of the aircraft from his early years in aviation, so I'm inclined to view Mr. Spencer's story (at least as much as it relates to the development of the Seabee) as inseperable from the aircraft's if a detailed history of the aircraft is to be presented, just as it would be pointless to seperate the history of the Wright Brothers from the story of the 1903 Wright Flyer, or of Dick Rutan from the development of the VarEZ.

Interestingly enough, the VariEze article does not contain much biographical information on its designer Burt (not Dick) Rutan. Similarly, the Wright Flyer article does not contain significant biographical info the Wright Brothers, aside from that directly related to the development of the Wright Flyer. --Allan McInnes (talk) 21:14, 10 June 2006 (UTC)