As much as I love the Tomcat, for Naval tacair........the Crusader gives it a run for it's money in the cool department IMHO.
What plane do you have nostalgia for?
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As much as I love the Tomcat, for Naval tacair........the Crusader gives it a run for it's money in the cool department IMHO.
Pépé le Pilot
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DC10, 727, GIVsp, BE58, 210. All great airplanes, for different reasons.
granlistillo
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P-3 are "tacair" Can even shoot slam-ers
And that is just air to mud. Aire a Agua, they can throw all sorts of stuff. how tactical can you get
I would have to disagree with Finsup about it being ugly. The EP, well she might be considered ugly. But I know for a fact it flies, so all in the eye of the beholder.
One of its predecessor the PBY Catalina is pretty high on my cool list too.
Orange Anchor
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?? so it wasn't the airplane but the rite of passage? I can understand. Driving that old dog out of Bluefield and ROA and CRW at heavy weight in the summer, sweating like a dog and watching that crazy engine RPM indicator go round and round.
"14.2 and 880!". Wasn't that the call? (14.2 and 770?)
Orange Anchor
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Right on both although I have more time in my Swift than I do in the Falcon 20. One trip in the 20.. very impressive airplane, IMHO.
Orange Anchor
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One's I miss seeing
Curtis C-46 coming into the ramp, bouncing slightly as the brakes squeal in protest and those big radials just barking.
Constellation cranking up and the blue smoke that would drive the enviros nuts today. Then powering up to taxi out and noting that in sharp turns the outside nosewheel comes off the ground.
727. 50% wing disassembly on final. JT8Ds proudly displaying 15,000lbs of thrust via smoke and noise.
DC-8-60 and 70 series. Long and sleek. The freight dogs really look good in those paint schemes.
Convair 880. Just looking at it you know it is fast.
Caravelle. European grace. Pretty wing.
Concorde. Enough said.
Millitary
F-8 Crusader. No way it could fly in today's environment. Have to be renamed.
F-105. Like Concorde, enough said.
A-1 Skyraider. A cross between ugly muscle and all business.
Civilian
Lear 23. See F-105 and Concorde
Cessna 195. The sound alone makes it a winner.
and of course, a Globe Swift. Guaranteed to ignite conversation where ever it is.
Curtis C-46 coming into the ramp, bouncing slightly as the brakes squeal in protest and those big radials just barking.
Constellation cranking up and the blue smoke that would drive the enviros nuts today. Then powering up to taxi out and noting that in sharp turns the outside nosewheel comes off the ground.
727. 50% wing disassembly on final. JT8Ds proudly displaying 15,000lbs of thrust via smoke and noise.
DC-8-60 and 70 series. Long and sleek. The freight dogs really look good in those paint schemes.
Convair 880. Just looking at it you know it is fast.
Caravelle. European grace. Pretty wing.
Concorde. Enough said.
Millitary
F-8 Crusader. No way it could fly in today's environment. Have to be renamed.
F-105. Like Concorde, enough said.
A-1 Skyraider. A cross between ugly muscle and all business.
Civilian
Lear 23. See F-105 and Concorde
Cessna 195. The sound alone makes it a winner.
and of course, a Globe Swift. Guaranteed to ignite conversation where ever it is.
fisher37
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I second that motion. I did my ME in a Baron, it's probably one of my favorites to this day...of course my aviation career hasn't been very long either!
Pépé le Pilot
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The Baron is SUCH a cool plane to fly... Fast, big-plane-feel, beautiful... I love this plane. I hope I get to own one somewhere down the line...
Boris Badenov
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Polar742
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It might have been 15.2. 880 sounds right, unless you lose one, the it was 1000.
I think too, because flying it made me think I was an Air America pilot....:crazy:
///AMG
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I always knew you had good taste Mike :rawk:
jml2992
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I love the ones we fly here at work. Definitely makes the coolest sound of any horizontaly-opposed piston engine out there. Not a radial but it will do until I find that dream job flying some guy's Beech 18 with floats.
Orange Anchor
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That rudder and vertical just might give one an idea of what it is like with an engine out.
Stonefly
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From what I've been told, in development the actual rudder area was reduced as full, sudden rudder deflection had caused the entire vertical stabilizer to tweak!
Of course, the P2V was designed originally without the jets. The -5 series Neptune was retrofitted with the Westinghouse J-34 turbojets, & the -7 series Neptune's came from the Lockheed factory with them installed. Engine outs on takeoff are certainly a serious concern, especially when the field is high & hot.
Rocketman99
Frozen Guppy Manipulator
T-37. Miss doing acro in the 6,000 lb dog whistle.
Orange Anchor
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Tweak as in leave the airplane? Yes, and that has been proven on other airframes including the B-52 and the A300.
The Japanese converted some of their Neptunes to turboprops. The P2J built by Kawasaki.
Which is a long way from the original P2V
And then there was the P2Vs operated by the US ARMY in Vietnam.
