Looking for a flight in something interesting!

[Asturias56]

Hmmm - there ARE a lot of Vietnamese restaurants along the Golden Mile......................... and you never see any Americans there...............

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Hmmm - there ARE a lot of Vietnamese restaurants along the Golden Mile......................... and you never see any Americans there...............

That's strange - go to Vietnam and it's full of Americans, who typically are warmly welcomed (though, to be fair, half the Vietnamese population weren't born when the war ended).

[Brutha]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Hmmm - there ARE a lot of Vietnamese restaurants along the Golden Mile.........................

Oops. In that case flying a Huey helicopter up and down the beach playing flight of the valkyrie might not be the best idea in the world!

[David Layne]

I flew in a Huey in Vietnam with a speaker system. It would play ghoulish sounds to intimidate the VC. It was all part of a program called " Chieu Hoi" which was to encourage defection of the VC and their supporters to the side of the Government during the Vietnam War. We also dropped leaflets. I have photos but can't seem to upload them.

[India Four Two]

I’m posting these photos on David’s behalf.

Here we are dropping leaflets over III Corps near Tay Ninh, you can just see Nui Ba Den in the background.

Tay Ninh is west of Saigon, near the Cambodian border. Nui Ba Den (Black Lady Mountain) is just visible behind the horizontal stabilizer of the Huey. It’s 3268’ high, the only high ground in this part of the Delta.

Here is another leaflet drop. You can see the neighborhood has been worked over by B52 strikes and Agent Orange.

[India Four Two]

That's strange - go to Vietnam and it's full of Americans, who typically are warmly welcomed (though, to be fair, half the Vietnamese population weren't born when the war ended).

Yes, for the majority of Vietnamese, the "American War" is ancient history, but even for older people, there seems to be very little ill-feeling towards Americans. I first went to Vietnam in 1994. Of all the people I met, who had lived through the war, there was only one elderly lady who was anti-American.

[David Layne]

Thanks for putting my photos up. I returned to Vietnam in 2017 and 2018. Had a great time visiting places I knew 50 years ago, but my how it's changed, for the better I might add.

[tdracer]

Just saw an ad in an aviation magazine stating you could fly P-51 Mustangs in Florida (I presume they are two seaters). Of course you'd need to go to Florida.

[India Four Two]

Florida is my first destination after I win the lottery!
https://www.stallion51.com/mustang-f...ation-flights/

[tdracer]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

Florida is my first destination after I win the lottery!
https://www.stallion51.com/mustang-f...ation-flights/

Yep, that's the one. The wife has been mentioning maybe going back to Florida with her sister's family (two young girls, who would love Disney World, and an engineer type hubby who'd love the Kennedy Space Center). If we go, I'll have to look into it. I'm not a pilot, but I've acquitted myself reasonably well on more than one occasion in a Boeing simulator - taking the controls of a honest to goodness Mustang - even for just a few minutes - would be awesome.

[India Four Two]

tdracer,

If Kennedy Space Center is anything like the Houston one, they will have a PC-based Shuttle Simulator. Do try it - great fun. I managed a slow-roll on final without crashing it, much to my surprise and to that of the onlookers!

[Asturias56]

If in Florida and Kennedy you must go to the Valiant Air Museum nearby - its awesome..............

https://www.valiantaircommand.com

[tdracer]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

tdracer,

If Kennedy Space Center is anything like the Houston one, they will have a PC-based Shuttle Simulator. Do try it - great fun. I managed a slow-roll on final without crashing it, much to my surprise and to that of the onlookers!

I've been to KSC a couple times - the most recent about 5 years ago. I don't recall seeing something like that but will be sure to look if I'm there again. I was in Houston back in the mid 1980s - my hotel was walking distance from the Johnson Space Center. IIRC the Space Center was closed when I went over but at the time their Saturn V was just sitting outside - being a rocket geek I was in hog's heaven checking it out - but it was also depressing to see how corroded and deteriorated it was getting being exposed to the weather. When I heard they were going to move it inside and restore it I donated to the cause.

[treadigraph]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

tdracer,

If Kennedy Space Center is anything like the Houston one, they will have a PC-based Shuttle Simulator. Do try it - great fun. I managed a slow-roll on final without crashing it, much to my surprise and to that of the onlookers!

Piece of cake from 15 miles out and 45000'!

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Hi All,

I’m not quite sure if this is the right place to ask this - @mods, please feel free to move if not!

In the past I’ve been up in a Tiger Moth and Harvard from Duxford, both of which I enjoyed a lot. I fancy trying something a bit more exciting (and with some kind of historic / nostalgic / warbird link ideally, hence my posting here).

I’ve been looking at the Spitfire flights, and they are tempting! Just not sure about the fact it was never designed as a two seater, and it won’t be that authentic from that side of things. I’ve seen some websites offering Jet Provost flights, and that seemed quite interesting, but the websites seem to be a bit out of date, so not sure if they are still going.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Ideally I’m looking for something on Saturday 24th August that could be done as a day trip from London, but could sort out another trip at a later date.

Thanks for any thoughts!

Cheers

Brutha

Try asking on www.forums.flyer.co.uk; there are a lot of people on there with 'interesting' types.