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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Wing Nut » Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:23 am

Curtiss Jenny (FS Inspired me...::)


They have a Jenny at the museum here.  It's my favorite plane in the place.  I am amazed how small and rickety that thing really is.  Let's just say I understand the phrase 'spit and bailing wire' now.  :)
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Hagar » Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:33 am

Something like this..........

That would be my 2nd choice. If you haven't flown in a dear old Tiger Moth...... you have no idea what real flying is. ;)
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Polynomial » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:04 am

this is a hard one cos i think there'd be a difference from an old one to a modern day one.

Old:  Avro Lancaster painted in Standard Bomber Command Colour scheme.  Nose art: Hitler as a pin cushion!

New:  F-111 'Pig' in Low Visibility grey and RAAF 1 SQN Insignia on the front.
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Maccers » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:19 am

A Learjet 45 in Black. I had one for FS2k2 but didnt release it because it looked crap ::) :-[
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby HawkerTempest5 » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:33 am

Although my favorite Spitfire is the MkXIV, My personal Spit would be a MkIXc painted as MK398 and wearing the code letters JE-J.
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby ATI_7500 » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:51 am

-Bf 109F or K (both of 'em look very cool)...
-standard luftwaffe colours with yellow nose,black spinner,yellow wingtips,yellow fuselage stripes,green rudder, large ,blue "1" and the letters "B" and "K" on the side of the fuselage.
-"Fritz"
-either a panther or adolf gallands "mickey mouse".
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Polynomial » Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:43 am

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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby flyboy 28 » Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:59 pm

Wow, Poly...


LOOOOOOVE the F-111 pic...
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Tequila Sunrise » Wed Nov 26, 2003 2:47 pm

Hunter F.Mk.6 or Lightning F.6, both gloss black, both with a St. Andrew's flag on the tail and christened Kyrene, ok so it dosn't work with every name then ::), errrrrrrr ???
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:51 pm

Concorde please.

Painted, erm, royal blue.

Called: Alchemy or Shamrock

Picture? God knows.
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Ivan » Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:08 pm

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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby C » Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:38 pm

Spitfire V, painted, navy blue with silver trim and registration letters, in a pseudo 30s/40s/50s civil scheme...

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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Polynomial » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:22 pm

Wow, Poly...


LOOOOOOVE the F-111 pic...


i know and that aircraft is based probably about 30 kilometres west of me at RAAF Amberley!  They are no longer painted in the camoflague but are now painted in Low Visibility Grey and no longer have the coloured 1 SQN insignia on the back, but like that, they look mean! :D
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby Smoke2much » Wed Nov 26, 2003 9:52 pm

One Bog standard Avro Lancaster with its origional paintwork.
Who switched the lights off?
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Re: Your personal aircraft...

Postby OTTOL » Sun Nov 30, 2003 12:31 am

Any bubble canopied Spitfire with at least a 4 blade prop painted in any scheme so long as it's post d-day.

Failing that, just a plain old cheap, easy to maintain, every day C172... :)

When I was about ten y/o, and saw my first F4 Phantom, I had fantasies for years about having my own.
In my later teens, I got into WWII history and wanted nothing but a P-51.
Around 17 y/o, I saw Apocalypse Now, and HAD to have T-38(F-5).
Around 23 I started working in general aviation, and wanted to own my own Kingair C-90.
As I approached 30, and realized that my Lotto tickets weren't paying off yet, I started scheming to buy a fast Homebuilt, like a Lancair or Glasair.
When the first kid arrived, it became "maybe someday, perhaps a Cherokee 140?!"
Now that I'm 35, I've said "I'll settle for a cub". :'(
I figure by the time I'm 40, it'll be an ultralight! ?  :(
I think it will be the color of whatever canvas I find to cover the wing.
I'll call it "sour grapes 1".
The nose art will be a McNally roadmap pasted to the nose cone/knee fairing, to be used as my primary nav-device.
They have a Jenny at the museum here.  It's my favorite plane in the place.  I am amazed how small and rickety that thing really is.  Let's just say I understand the phrase 'spit and bailing wire' now.  
My interest in aviation history and classic airplanes wanes with anything older than 1939. So when I visit the Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola, I go straight for the Corsairs, Hellcats, Phantom, Hornet etc. .....  BUT when people ask me about my favorite airplane in the museum, the first one is the NC-4, the second,  the Jenny with the cutaway, fuselage and wing. As a former aircraft mechanic, I consider an airplane that's built almost entirely by hand to be a form of mechanical artwork. The detail involved in hand planed ribs and stringers, hand sewn fabric covering, and brass nails and fasteners, all attached by hand is nothing short of exceptional. It helps to remember to put yourself into the time period in which this plane was built. Not to single out JUST the Jenny either. I'm sure that any of the aircraft of that era were of  equal build quality.
.....so I loaded up the plane and moved to Middle-EEEE..........OIL..that is......
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