What aircraft would you want to fly?

Probably this one right here...
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but pretty much anything with a R-2800 or V-1710 or a V-1650:D
 
I would love to see the earth below, so let's go with a U2 or SR71 first.

Then only because I seen and heard them break the sound barrier, I would have to go with an F14 Tomcat.

Those are jets, for prop aircraft let's go with an A6M Zero because you can't find many operational anymore which is pretty rare to see an original actually flying.
 
Sticking with the theme of vintage Naval fighters, I'd have to take an F2G over an F4U or F8F. I can't even imagine the consummate bliss of the 28 cylinder R-4360 producing 3,000 horsepower at takeoff... :rawk:

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Anything supersonic. I hope I get the chance to fly supersonic at least once in my life. It would also be cool to fly a Stuka. History aside, it has to be crazy to fly that thing at the ground with the siren wailing.
 
Ollie said:
I'd have to take an F2G over an F4U or F8F.
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Power loading is essentially identical. Wing loading is vastly higher on the Bearcat. Advantage: Bear. Plus you get explosive bolts that BLOW OFF THE TIPS OF YOUR WINGS when you pull too hard. Jesus, that's almost as awesome as the F-89's Collision Course Radar for use with UNGUIDED NUCLEAR FRICKIN ROCKETS.

Both are Badass, but some animals are more equal than others.

PS. Orange Anchor speaks my heart here. The Butcherbird is sex on a stick. Bleeds energy in the turn like it's menstruating, but if it can point at you for just a second, there's a wall of 20mm headed your way. Plus it rolls like a 15 year old at a rave.
 
Boris Badenov said:
PS. Orange Anchor speaks my heart here. The Butcherbird is sex on a stick. Bleeds energy in the turn like it's menstruating, but if it can point at you for just a second, there's a wall of 20mm headed your way. Plus it rolls like a 15 year old at a rave.
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The Dora was a faster machine with better handling reportedly but the short nosed -190 just exudes a certain subdued ferocity.
 
I have many loves, airplane-wise, but there is one that stands head and shoulders above all the rest. If I could live out the rest of my days flying and taking care of it, I would die happy.

The Douglas A-26 Invader. My lifelong dream has been to fly one, though ideally I wouldn't want to do it just once...

That said, there are other airplanes I'd love to fly:
- Beech 18
- F7F
- B-17
- DC-3
- Grumman Albatross
- P-38

.. oh I could go on all day, but those are in some sort of order.

... But if I had the opportunity to fly the A-26, I could die happy. As a teenager, I dreamed of working for Airspray, or some other operator that still flew the A-26. Sadly, they seem to have universally fallen out of favor as working airplanes.

I guess that's life. Someday, though...

-Fox
 
Orange Anchor said:
The Dora was a faster machine with better handling reportedly but the short nosed -190 just exudes a certain subdued ferocity.
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Yeah, Dora could outrun even the later stangs at most altitudes (quite a feat when you consider the trail of destruction the Allies had wrought by that time on the German manufacturing apparatus and the fact that the FW190 had never been intended as a high altitude fighter...just look at those wings if you can even see them), but it didn't have the Wall Of Lead of the bomber-killer A8 variants. IMS, the Dora had 2xMG151 (and the usual two 13mm pop-guns in the nose), whereas the A8s had FOUR high velocity 20mm, the popguns, PLUS an absurd amount of armor and the occasional A2A rocket. As you say, Dora was impressive, but the round engine 190 was equal parts SEX and KILLER. Not that I approve of either of those things! ;)

PS. If memory serves the cammo on that flugwerk suggests that it's probably a mid to late war A8 model, which ought to have the 4 MG151s and the upgraded armor package. Basically a flying machine gun in a (well armored) shopping cart.
 
Ajax BU said:
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Love this plane, my lifelong goal is to break the sound barrier and this could do it. I don't know if I ever will, but that's another story :dunno:
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My first ever PPL/IFT student and very good friend just rotated out of the Bone and is now an IP @ Whiting in a T-6 II.
 
I'd love to fly Sean Tuckers custom built Oracle Challenger. It has to be the most badass airshow plane ever built!
 
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