NoPolitics: Airplanes you like that no one else does

[RetiredATLATC]

MU-2

 

[jynxyjoe]

Who doesn't like this airplane? Bring them out.

The sales team at Beech that fought Olive and Ratheon during design and manufacturing, protesting if Raytheon built it there'd be no market. Raytheon investors. Everyone from Rockwell collins who lost millions on the project and Beech threw the ProLine 4 into every turboprop they made for next 20-25 years as an apology. Burt Rutan who was kicked off the project towards the end for his bad ideas and inability to work as a team, a man who still hasn't certified an airplane after decades of trying.

That said I liked sitting it in, it's a comfortable airplane. Never flew it or anything.

 

[EOD Nomad]

PA25 Pawnee

 

[milleR]

MU-2

Anybody that doesn't like the MU-2 is a pillock

 

[L-16B]

Meyers 200!

Never seen a 200 but a guy where I grew up outside of Houston had two 145’s. Always thought they looked pretty cool. Cooler than a global swift.

 

[BigZ]

Looks sort of Mitsubishi-ish, but without the ladder retention devices on the wingtips.

Nah, that's Soviet grade ugly

 

[ASpilot2be]

I will always have a place in my heart for the CASA 212.

 

[KLB]

My list:

Piper Navajo/Chieftain

The Fairfield Swearingen Metroliner/Texas Lawn Dart/The Pencil/The Screaming Weenie.

The Beechjet

The Cessna Skymaster

The Piper Aztec

I also wanted to add the Velocity V-Twin.

 

[Old Pete]

Alarus. Two seater. Low wing. 115 HP. Had a few at the flight school I worked at.

This fulfills the “nobody else does” more than any other

 

[JordanD]

I will always have a place in my heart for the CASA 212.

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If someone put wings on a taco truck I feel like this would be the result.

 

[Roger Roger]

If someone put wings on a taco truck I feel like this would be the result.

Oof, taco truck, almost took this political. Instead I’ll just say that I would cough covid in a nursing home for some salty, greasy street tacos...the kind with 2 white corn tortillas each and lots of onion, cilantro, and lime

 

[Old Pete]

I wonder if surgeons do amateur surgery on their off days.

“I don’t even want a scalpel. Just gimmie a shard of glass and some moonshine like the good ol days.”

No, Expressjet pilots do that. Do I have to find the link?

 

[Lawman]

I will always have a place in my heart for the CASA 212.

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The slowest aircraft in special operations...


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[Screaming_Emu]

Hey, does anyone know anything about this thing? I don’t really have the GA itch, but I’m definitely intrigued by what seems like an affordable quick cross country plane. I asked for the price sheet and it looks like it ranges between 165k-350k depending on options.

Not a ton of useful load, but with only two seats...

VL3 Aircraft – Alion Aviation 🛩️

www.alionaviation.com

 

[NovemberEcho]

The AC-208

 

[ASpilot2be]

The slowest aircraft in special operations...


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But it gets the job done!

 

[Screaming_Emu]

But it gets the job done!

Unless there’s ice

 

[ASpilot2be]

Unless there’s ice

It actually handled ice better really well. I was shocked.

 

[Lawman]

Unless there’s ice

That is an impressively large number of military aircraft if we are being honest.


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