You've won squillions on the Lotto - what to build?

[Sir George Cayley]

Besides all the trappings of the Hector Riva lifestyle, your new found wealth allows you to recreate just about any a/c you care to.

The only rule for this fantasy is that one can't exist either in a museum, as a copy or as a replica.

I'll throw a six to start, the Handley Page Type O/400 (HP.12)

Your turn.

Sir George Cayley

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

dH Hornet.

[treadigraph]

Ah Sir George, this project might still be going...

G-BKMG (http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detail&regmark=bk&dataindex=284)...

Anyone know more...?



As SSD has gone for the Hornet, um... AW Siskin

[Noah Zark.]

Seeing as SSD is building my D.H. Hornet for me, I'll build a Martin Baker M B 5 !

[Rory57]

Sticking with contra-props, I will arrange for the construction of a Supermarine Seagull.

[Marbles]

Notwithstanding the ongoing brave efforts to recreate one out of bits and bobs, I would give you:

The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V, converted for paratroop- or agent-dropping.

[India Four Two]

SSD,

I think you should build a Mosquito trainer as well, in order to prepare pilots for the Hornet.

[Proplinerman]

I would launch "Vanguard to the sky," a project to get G-APEP moved to an airfield and restored to airworthy condition, then flown regularly and kept inside a hangar. And of course re-painted in BEA's classic 1960s livery.

[xtypeman]

Got to be a Boeing 377 stratocruiser the orginator of sleeper seats........

[Fournierf5]

The Short S.31 half-scale replica powered by four Pobjoy Niagaras. Used for aerodynamic tests of the Stirling design.

Simples!

[HighTow]

Miles Master MkII GT. GAL Hotspur MkI (to get around the no replica's rule!)

[ZH875]

A Short Sperrin for me


Complete with a Bucket of Instant Sunshine for Cameron & Co

[mat777]

I'd have a B35 (or the 49 version) and the 2-seater Super-BD5, for a kickoff

[JW411]

If money was absolutely no object, I would buy the last flyable Belfast which is for sale in Australia. I had more fun in the Belfast than anything else.

Otherwise, I would go for an HP 42.

[Flap40]

I would go for the DH.91 Albatross. Beautiful lines. A bit like a half scale Constellation.

[Rory57]

Not quite a replica; a Hercules engined Spitfire.

[Dr Jekyll]

HP 42 and Hornet have been taken so Short Stirling and Supermarine Spiteful.

Mind you a Hornet with Griffons and contraprops might be interesting, do they allow twin engined aircraft at Reno?

[terrain safe]

Harrier GR9.

[treadigraph]

Sure, Tigercats are regular runners ar Reno these days, there have been P-38s (Lefty Gardner's White Lightnin' for many years), plus A-26s, a DC-7 and a Connie have all had a go.


Just realised that my Siskin wouldn't make much of a dent in a squillion or two, so how about a really big flying boat - SARO Princess or a Convair Tradewind? And maybe squander a bit more on bringing a Martin Mars over to the UK for the airshow season...

(I'd also buy a Tigercat, that is one aeroplane I really miss on the UK airshow circuit - along with the Mossie...)

[VX275]

A GAL Hamilcar (only fuselage sections remain) but I'd have to bend the rules and have a Handley Page Halifax A IX to tow it.

[Proplinerman]

And I'd get G-APEP re-fitted with a full passenger interior, as it was in the 1960s in BEA service-remember that quite well.

[10kDA]

That's easy. Beech A17F, as owned by Howard Hughes:

http://www.airminded.net/stagwing/beech_A17F.jpg

[Richard Woods]

I'd have a Shackleton re-sparred.

[albatross]

A spitfire on floats - high speed transit to the cottage.


Aeroplane Heaven Spitfire on floats (http://www.screenshotartist.co.uk/ah_spitfire_floats.htm)

[jabberwok]

I'd finish the Miles M52 project.

[kwateow]

I lost my sense of humour, didn't realise its only a joke.

Sorry, but there are starving kids everywhere.

Nothing better to do with your pension?

[airvanman]

I would take the starving Kids up in my bloody noisy Convair 880 trailing big black Earth polluting smoke! ;)

[kwateow]

Agree, airvanman, flying the 880 was a great first experience for me too, but we were the spoilt kids of the post-war generation.

Our children and grandkids have to be more careful with their money.

[Genghis the Engineer]

It's a great question, and as this is entirely hypothetical, I think that we can leave the starving children for another day, and for membership of Aviation Without Borders, which is open to all of us as are many options for charitable contributions.


As for the aeroplane, many of the aeroplanes that most appeal to me are outside the rules - they exist somewhere and are flying, and a few of them I'm lucky enough to have in my logbook. At some point in my life, I'd love to add a Vampire and a something from the Spitfire stable.

But, if I had to pick something that doesn't exist any more and I'd love to own and fly - I think it would be a Derwent engined Meteor F3.

G