What Military Aircraft Would You Bring Back To Service?
 

Just passing the time away for fun, if possible what aircraft would you bring back to service mine would be the Vulcan!!

VC-10 without a doubt - well, maybe quite a lot of doubt.

Hawker Hunter. Good cheap combat aircraft which I would love to have flown but just missed.

MM

Tornado EF3 - plenty of need for a dedicated electronic attack aircraft in a more contested environment. It’s been a gaping hole in our inventory for a while now (the GR1/GR4 with ALARM was always a lash-up role for that aircraft - without any emitter location or stand-off jamming capability).


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The wonderful Nimrod.
simple.

The Puma. Oh, wait...:E

CG

Piston Provost with modern instrumentation. They' spoiled it putting in a Viper'.

I hate to say it, but the Harrier!

Harrier GR9 for sure

Avro Arrow with updated electronic. Killed off by a stupid political discussion.

I had the most satisfaction flying the Harvard. (and I have flown rather a lot)

I would like to have seen what we would have done with the TSR2 and the changes that would have resulted.

If I could bring back in to service any aircraft, it would be the Buccaneer.

The Wessex HC 2,spent 7 1/2 years working on them.

SR-71 - willing to bet it could still do an exceptional job even today.

BALLIOL. More horse power than the first Spitfire, and a go-around that you'll never forget, if you're careless.

Canadair CL-13 (CF-86) Sabre, Mk 6.

Cheers,
Grog

I was told by one of our Squadron “Navs” how he had withdrawn himself from pilot training after his Balliol torque rolled him through 720 degrees, at very low level over the runway, one dark night after he gave it too much throttle from a low speed go-around.

I'm in agreement with unmanned-droid. It would have to be a re-engined Buccaneer, should have been plenty of BR710s available after the Nimrod cancellation. With a glass cockpit and modern avionic systems, would have been a winner.

Well, as this is for fun I would certainly relish the opportunity to fly the Buccaneer again. However, as this venture could give me an opportunity to fly an aircraft that I have not flown but wish I had it would have to be the De Havilland Hornet. Allegedly it was one of the nicest aircraft to fly ever built.

And there is a Hornet build in the wings I believe, all be it static.

Someone has to say it..... TSR2

A modernised Rotodyne, Chinook capability with tilt rotor performance.

I’m torn between the Vulcan or SR-71....
The sweetest noise of any aircraft ever was a Vulcan in that iconic slow roll, but no reason other than that.
I once watched an SR-71 display from Mildenhall, it left me speechless, just awesome raw power! To be honest it could still do a worthy job today, just letting the opposition know you are always watching.

Chipmunk. Put a silly grin on my face.

How about T21 and T31 gliders? Let's get the kids all over the country flying solo again.

Bucc...with new spars.

With a Hornet being resurrected in New Zealand, you might get an opportunity!

I'll go for the B-36 - I've never even seen one but I'd love to see and hear one in the air...

^^This^^, for smiles per miles it must surely be unbeaten?!

Mosquito.......

I know this is the military forum but - forgive me, I'm a civilian - what for?

For sheer elegance:
Concorde
Vulcan
Mosquito (thanks, Captain)

As a passenger:
A380 (though as derjodel says, it's still in service)
747-400 upper deck business class
Short Empire (even I am not old enough to have flown in one, but the idea of having time to take ten leisurely days to fly to Australia, stopping overnight in exotic places, is surely attractive).

As a pilot:
I was only a humble PPL, but for sheer fun, the best flying I had was in STOL aircraft like the Helio Courier, in and out of back-country airstrips around the world, often excitingly short and in really interesting places.

Would the Sea Harrier be a credible resurrection?

A re-engined refurbished VC10. Fast, the right size to take an army company somewhere and a great tanker (3 hoses). A SA Bulldog as a cheap basic starter trainer. Strong, capable, easy to fly, A much modified Canberra/B57 as a cheap attack aeroplane. Did more than some of it successors. The B57G was a star in Vietnam.

If it was possible to bring back the era as well, the Handley-Page HP 42. All day, almost all VFR, no radio/nav aids/ controlled airspace to speak of. Lots of nightstops with interesting passengers. Probably the best airline job ever.

I would bring back the Hawker Typhoon fitted with modern rockets & engine :-)

Come on chaps & chapesses, we all know what we realy need ........ Kirby Cadet MkIII :)

F-111. Long range(by tactical standards)tactical bomber and EW platform.

A Spiteful or a Seafang

Amen.

What a loss, what sh1t decisions.

The XB-70 Valkyrie. What it could have achieved we'll never know.

Agree re-engined VC10! With a pair of Trents on the back, great at freight, VIP, pax or fuelling.

F-111 For sure!