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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby Sprocket » Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:50 am

planephysician wrote:Spent some time in Alaska and hoped to live there someday.


Used to watch a series here on TV called "Ice Pilots" running an airline in Alaska..and I really envy those peoples rugged lifestyles,
and where airplanes are the center of their world..
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby Fozzer » Fri Mar 21, 2014 4:09 am

Sprocket wrote:
Hagar wrote:British civil registrations use G- followed by four letters, no numerals. Something like G-AJAN would be more realistic.


Good point thanks :D ...I'll duly change it to the proper format...I think maybe G-JANH, of which H is the first letter of my surname..


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Not quite ready for multiplayer yet..I'm really a poor pilot so I don't know if I'll ever be :mrgreen:


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I change most of my "N" registered aircraft to "G" registered types!

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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby burcham8 » Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:15 am

Cessna 310B (the model Sky King used to fly)

While we're dreaming, a Citation X (the world must look pretty wonderful at 51,000 feet)
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby logjam » Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:29 am

Good on yer Sprocket, you might want to think about G-IJAN, being that it's you. <<s
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby Sprocket » Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:19 am

logjam wrote:Good on yer Sprocket, you might want to think about G-IJAN, being that it's you.


OK, changed them to G-JANI.. :D

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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby Shane Stachwick » Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:57 pm

Heinkel 178. German jet aircraft prototype. First flew 8/27/39, 4 days before Nazi invasion of Poland. First jet aircraft to fly. Original destroyed by Allied air raid over Berlin in 1943. If Hitler had gotten a working jet fighter in the air any earlier than he did, so much the WORSE for humanity.
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby Shane Stachwick » Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:08 pm

Souichiro wrote:I always though that should I ever win the lottery i would buy a PBY - Catalina amphibian and circumnavigate the world in it! It was one of the planes my grandfather flew on in the war.


My great-grandpa worked on the production line at Consolidated's San Diego plant. By matter of coincidence, now my girlfriend's name is Catalina.
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby Speed of flight » Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:35 am

Big fat heavy: MD-11. No question about it. The GE-CF6-80c2s. In and out of anywhere important.
Bizjet: Citation Sovereign, because I work on them, and they're a great airplane. Or all out Global Express.
Fighter: F-15. Superiority at its pinnacle. No chance any attainable jet can take it.
Long range munitions delivery: the Rockwell B-1B. Awesome. Drops more than a B-52, and flies like a fighter jet.
Carrier ops: F/A-18E. Like it needs an explanation.
Old prop beauty: the Lockheed Constellation. Nuff said.

I'm not sure what purposes for choosing an airplane I may have missed, but for all I'd need one for, that'll do for me.
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby BLAZE » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:12 am

Shane Stachwick wrote:
Souichiro wrote:I always though that should I ever win the lottery i would buy a PBY - Catalina amphibian and circumnavigate the world in it! It was one of the planes my grandfather flew on in the war.


My great-grandpa worked on the production line at Consolidated's San Diego plant. By matter of coincidence, now my girlfriend's name is Catalina.



Cool on your girlfriends name! Freekie how things work out in life sometimes, huh Shane?
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby wifesaysno » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:35 am

My choices:

NXT
http://www.nemesisnxt.com/kit/index.php

Lancair Legacy

Rutan Boomerang
http://www.rutanboomerang.com/

Rutan/Beech Starship

Rutan Catbird
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby ViperPilot » Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:11 pm

wahubna wrote:My choices:

NXT
http://www.nemesisnxt.com/kit/index.php

Lancair Legacy

Rutan Boomerang
http://www.rutanboomerang.com/

Rutan/Beech Starship

Rutan Catbird


Hey, wahubna... we think alike! Now I wish one of the Creative types out there would make a Catbird for FS9/FSX/P3D! If someone did, that would be my #1 airplane!!
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby bombardier » Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:16 am

hello to you: the jets I like to fly:

a B-17 I would like to fly. my dad was a navigator/bombardier on one of those B-17s. and a A380 and make it into an flying rv. with some modifications in the passengers cabin. I also like B777 up there near the top where A380 is. I would say A380 first and B777 second that I like to fly.

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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby Modlerbob » Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:44 am

First thought, a P-51D. But if I suddenly became wealthy and had to get some personal air transportation with room for some friends I think the Grumman Gulfstream turboprop would be my choice. Hopping into the Gulfstream with three or four pretty young female friends for a trip to the Bahamas seems like the perfect way to spend a weekend.
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby brando5450 » Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:22 pm

If I was to choose one plane it would have to be the Cirrus SR22. Something about the side stick <<q instead of a yoke and the general shape of the aircraft appeals to me. :D
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Re: If you could own any aircraft what would it be?

Postby Jaybob1983 » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:46 pm

Turboprop: Pilatus PC-12NG
Twin Piston Engine: Beechcraft D-18
Single Engine Piston: Meyers OTW (My Great-Grandpa used to part own Meyers Aircraft too)
Glider: Pilatus B4
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