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Ive decided a topic discussing Classics is needed because I miss needles and losts of fun gauges that were all manual to look at and then push. I miss what gives a plane character. Most planes now are computers with wings and engines on them. Bakc then they had a soul you felt excited to bored one hear the prop or anicent turbine get started up the noise the adverts once played explaing what and aircrfta was those where the days unfotunately i was born then so all I know is through reaind g and being on one DC3. Stranmge how the older planes survive longer than the modern ones. CLASSICS AND VINTAGE SI SALUTE YOU. HOPR THE GRVAEYARD IN NEVADA ISNT TOO COLD THERES HOPE YET.  :'( so post about the classics discuss love enjoy be passionate prove the soul they have. That a modern airbus and boeing dont. Prove the clasics was better sure greenpeace hates them but F greenpeace.

Ill name but a few DC8 DC3-6 B707-727-731 Convairs etc etc go on name them all and love them all remember classics are the BEST.

[boring alert]Spitfire - for its iconic design...[/boring alert]

DH Mosquito - for the brilliant innovation of its design.

DH Comet - first jetliner, only fatally marred by one aspect of design.

DH/HS Trident - come on, not many aeroplanes of the 60s could land themselves - even the Chinese wanted them

Too many more to list...

Ill throw a couple in....

EE Canberra...until last year the only RAF aircraft in service to have components made of wood  8-) 8-)

B52....50 years in service, and another possible 20+  :o

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DC-3 for more reasons than I can fit in the max 5500 characters.....that is a one of a kind classic.

For once I'll give some credit to you spitty lovers out there.....it sure is a classic

For once people agree. I love the classics without them would we have the 737. Avaition today is bland in a way. Its not fun for us we see the smae aircraft landing A320,737,757,767 sometimes the A321 and a 777. But bakc in the age of classics you had stuff to tell apart the DC3 could be told apart form the Convair 360. Nowadays I cnat tell apart the A330 form the 767/757. Why because all new planes are teh same. One time they where built for passion now there built becuase some airline requests them to increase profability. As a great man once said

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For it is there you have been and there you long to return..."

And you know what its true. Now thoguh its not a suprise when you look up bakc then it was. Kids then loved planes as much as most kids love cars. Do people want truth im bullied for likeing planes but you know what nothing is going too stop me in the pursuit of lifes greatest pass time. The bullying is horrible for likeing planes but im defiant. A thing ive allways said is " Those qho conquered tehs kys are the 20th centurys heros they opened the world. They created a machine but not just a machine a machine with a soul they had created the plane". Another qoute I love to use is "This plane may remind you of some things you used to know: that life is in the moment, joy matters more than money, the world is a beautiful place, and that dreams really, truly are possible.".

Or another "To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home." That truely is true.

"Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground."
That is why I think I love flight well one reason anyway up there the bullys cant touch me cant intimidate up there you are truelly king.

"Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying."

"Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time is worth nothing."

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground."

- Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings, 1974


"I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying."

Thats me for now these are all reasons why I love lfight and why bullys wont destroy it for me like it did to a friend. They destroyed jis life and mine. It has put me through difficulties only flying will take away because up there all you care is that noise keeps going and your in your element you are home.

Continuing tyhese are clssicly great rules:
Rule one: No matter what else happens, fly the airplane.
- Flying is hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.
- Fly it until the last piece stops moving.
- It

- When starting an aviation career it is not unusual to be overwhelmed, terrified, suffer from lack of confidence and be just plain scared. As experience grows, self confidence replaces fear . . . but after a time, when you think you have seen it all, you realize your initial reactions to flying were correct.

- Every groundschool class includes one ass who, at 5 minutes before 5, asks a question requiring a 20-minute explanation.
- Gravity, it

Somebody's got it ("the bug") real bad... which is good.

I'm right with you on the "bland" thing, but don't be depressed about it- still plenty of classic warbirds, transports and light aircraft still flying, and there are more that will fly again.
But it's not really practical for airlines and militaries to revive or hold on to such technology, operating cost being only one of them, so we won't be seeing fleets of DC-3s and Dragon Rapides plying the airways anymore.


As for being teased for being "plane crazy": they just don't know what they're missing, so you're the lucky one.

And some (sincerely) friendly advice: slow down when you type, dude!  ;)

You prove good points. They like cars I like planes diffrence is planes are intresting. I will miss the DC3. It was sad (i actually shed a tear) when the last 707 was scrapped.

IM very happy ive just sen a Dc9 landing at Glasgow the first classic ive seen inmany years its smoke was beautiful reminds me of Helen.

I will throw one into the bag 'Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation'. Possibly the best looking plane of all time.

The connie is actually brilliant beautiful and nimble yet tough and strong. The only aircraft I feel whcih could not be replaced along with the DC3. And like the DC3 noone has managed to create a newer replacement model which out does it. Ive got myself a brilliant connie model myself if you want the link tell me. Its got beautiful handeling its life like the cockpit etc and flying in wind or at night is a challeneg no fs pilot has ever faced before. I also feel its teh first aircrfat which ha da modern type a/p with full functionality like so few had.

Most Cold War era jets. Loud and dirty. 8-)

The connie is actually brilliant beautiful and nimble yet tough and strong. The only aircraft I feel whcih could not be replaced along with the DC3. And like the DC3 noone has managed to create a newer replacement model which out does it. Ive got myself a brilliant connie model myself if you want the link tell me. Its got beautiful handeling its life like the cockpit etc and flying in wind or at night is a challeneg no fs pilot has ever faced before. I also feel its teh first aircrfat which ha da modern type a/p with full functionality like so few had.

No, the connie is not in the same category as the DC-3 at all.  There have been plenty of replacement's for the connie and all successful.  The connie's job was actually quite simple: fly passengers a long ways.  Basically any international jet could be regarded as a replacement for the connie.

The DC-3 on the otherhand, carries people and cargo into both urban centers and rural areas where other planes can go.  No modern plane has yet to match the reliability and widespread use of the DC-3, and none have lived up to it's credentials.