If you were born again, what would you want to fly?
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Mustang, to compare with its contemporaries; Fairey Fox, because my Dad did; Falcon 50, because we were always promised we would get one and never did while I was around!
And Beags, you needn't have gone to Yorkshire to fly the Hornet, what about Butterworth? A couple of my mates did, and I rather wish I had, but Meteors at Horsham St Faith had its moments!
And Beags, you needn't have gone to Yorkshire to fly the Hornet, what about Butterworth? A couple of my mates did, and I rather wish I had, but Meteors at Horsham St Faith had its moments!
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I have a soft spot for the Lightning, classic Air Defence Fighter (Certainly didnt have the legs for anything else!).
On the other hand, if I could warp time anyway I wanted; it would have to be every Wokka and crew I could get my hands on.
The Date would be June 1st 1940 and the place would be Dunkirk.
On the other hand, if I could warp time anyway I wanted; it would have to be every Wokka and crew I could get my hands on.
The Date would be June 1st 1940 and the place would be Dunkirk.
If I could warp time it'd be a F-117 with a couple of PGMs and a trip to Nuremberg to take out that little $hit with the silly moustache....
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>If I could warp time it'd be a F-117 with a couple of PGMs and a trip to Nuremberg to take out that little $hit with the silly moustache....<
If you need a wingman . . .
If you need a wingman . . .
Aaargghh - chronoclasm!
Others who might have met with an unfortunate accident in my time travelling:
Duncan Sandys
Dr Beeching
Plus of course, that piece of $hit skulking around in some cave in the North West Frontier or thereabouts.
Others who might have met with an unfortunate accident in my time travelling:
Duncan Sandys
Dr Beeching
Plus of course, that piece of $hit skulking around in some cave in the North West Frontier or thereabouts.
Mosquitos with the PFF
TSR2, of course (I still weep)
And, I have to agree, a day on F4s in the early 70s, when the Cold War meant something, intercepting Bears.
BTW, wouldn't it be great if someone released all of those old 60s & 70s CoI recruiting films of the RAF?
TSR2, of course (I still weep)
And, I have to agree, a day on F4s in the early 70s, when the Cold War meant something, intercepting Bears.
BTW, wouldn't it be great if someone released all of those old 60s & 70s CoI recruiting films of the RAF?
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Cherokee 140 - if there is an afterlife and I am able to fly surely there will be something more exciting to fly - if there isn't an afterlife I havn't built my hopes up too much!
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seeing one around lunchtime over Braddan, probably recceing the hospital pad reminded me how much I wished I had tried harder at OASC in 87
A big, yellow Sea king in crap wx, hauling someone off the back of a sinking boat.
- probably the one occupation where everyone is always pleased to see you.
A big, yellow Sea king in crap wx, hauling someone off the back of a sinking boat.
- probably the one occupation where everyone is always pleased to see you.
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If you're looking for a door gunner wannabe for your 1940 French excursion......mind-you, would be a bit odd bumping into 'me father' on the beach!
Other than that anything on the Berlin Airlift - York/Halton/Dakota/Tudor
If you're looking for a door gunner wannabe for your 1940 French excursion......mind-you, would be a bit odd bumping into 'me father' on the beach!
Other than that anything on the Berlin Airlift - York/Halton/Dakota/Tudor
Having only ever flown one type operationally (Mud moving F4) I have a world of choice, but I am amazed at those among us who seem to want to do daft things like fly in combat and whose ambition is to fly in a Lancaster during a raid over Berlin!
Thousands of poor unfortunates would willingly have swapped with you if given the choice................................
HAS to be the X-15.
Certainly nothing where I am likely to get shot at!
Thousands of poor unfortunates would willingly have swapped with you if given the choice................................
HAS to be the X-15.
Certainly nothing where I am likely to get shot at!
Hmm, being dropped by the B-52, then waiting and hoping that the X-15's rocket would start must have been thought provoking...
How about the NF-104A space pilot trainer used to prepare for the X-20 DynaSoar?
That must have been fun - accelerate to M2.2 at 70000ft, then a 3.5 g pull to a 70 deg climb angle as the rocket was lit. Hold it until 16 deg AoA was reached, then maintain that until the aircraft came back down from space. All the time monitoring the various temp limits and controlling the jet engine and afterburner...
They reached 120000 ft doing that. Until, that is, big head Yeager screwed up and lost the aircraft; thereafter more conservative limits were needlessly applied to NF-104A flights...
Now, the X-20, that would have been fun!
How about the NF-104A space pilot trainer used to prepare for the X-20 DynaSoar?
That must have been fun - accelerate to M2.2 at 70000ft, then a 3.5 g pull to a 70 deg climb angle as the rocket was lit. Hold it until 16 deg AoA was reached, then maintain that until the aircraft came back down from space. All the time monitoring the various temp limits and controlling the jet engine and afterburner...
They reached 120000 ft doing that. Until, that is, big head Yeager screwed up and lost the aircraft; thereafter more conservative limits were needlessly applied to NF-104A flights...
Now, the X-20, that would have been fun!
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Good thread; you could creep it off in all sorts of directions. If it were to follow the "..what would you NEVER want to fly" line of thought, I'd offer the following:
- aforementioned Wright Flyer, Bleriot or indeed any pre-WW1 aircraft
- having just read Mr Lecomber's article about displaying a radial-engined Camel, I'm not sure I'd want to have been on any WW1 aircraft either.
- Fairey Battles anywhere near Maastricht
- Brewster Buffaloes anywhere near the Japanese (although the Finns seemed to do a remarkably good job against the Russians with these).
- He162, Ohka or any of those end-of-WW2 desperate monstrosities put together by the failing Axis powers
But to return to the theme, these are things I wish I'd flown:
- Sunderlands somewhere warm and non-threatening.
- Wapitis over Nepal/Tibet.
- Dakotas with my Dad during the Berlin Airlift.
- K-cars, Lynx and Cheetahs somewhere north of Seth Efrica back in the late 1970s.
But finally, if I'm proved wrong after all these years and it turns out there really is an afterlife, I know what it'll be like for me (assuming I qualify, of course):
Flying SOAF Hueys sometime in the early 80s, with Bob Prest and his Sqn mates coming through every year for the National Day flypoast just to remind us that FJ people sometimes know how to have fun too. Nearly as much as we do in rotary...
- aforementioned Wright Flyer, Bleriot or indeed any pre-WW1 aircraft
- having just read Mr Lecomber's article about displaying a radial-engined Camel, I'm not sure I'd want to have been on any WW1 aircraft either.
- Fairey Battles anywhere near Maastricht
- Brewster Buffaloes anywhere near the Japanese (although the Finns seemed to do a remarkably good job against the Russians with these).
- He162, Ohka or any of those end-of-WW2 desperate monstrosities put together by the failing Axis powers
But to return to the theme, these are things I wish I'd flown:
- Sunderlands somewhere warm and non-threatening.
- Wapitis over Nepal/Tibet.
- Dakotas with my Dad during the Berlin Airlift.
- K-cars, Lynx and Cheetahs somewhere north of Seth Efrica back in the late 1970s.
But finally, if I'm proved wrong after all these years and it turns out there really is an afterlife, I know what it'll be like for me (assuming I qualify, of course):
Flying SOAF Hueys sometime in the early 80s, with Bob Prest and his Sqn mates coming through every year for the National Day flypoast just to remind us that FJ people sometimes know how to have fun too. Nearly as much as we do in rotary...
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Not: gotta be the Me 163 with it's nasty habit of disolving pilots in Conc. H2O2 but when it worked... whatta ride!
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>If it were to follow the "..what would you NEVER want to fly" line of thought, I'd offer the following:<
Me163; Granger Archaeopteryx; almost anything pre-1920!
Me163; Granger Archaeopteryx; almost anything pre-1920!