You have won 100 million :)
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I will buy an airfield and open a flying school for young passionate kids unable to afford to pay for lessons else where. They start in gliders, proceed on taildraggers, then meps, floats, acros and IFR. I'll get professionals to run the place and meanwhile spend my time flying my personal fleet composed of a Cub, T6, PT17, DC3, BE18 and a jet or two.
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Having learned from owning a one-hole Pitts, having a single seat airplane can be a lonely and frustrating experience. I was always wishing I could take X up for a flight (X usually equally some lady of the fit and gorgeous type).
So, having won the millions and built a new hangar at Popham or Leicester, I'd fill it with:
Pitts S-2C for the simple and quick access fun plus local airshow performances
Corsair for serious warbirding
Taylorcraft BC-12 for general hooliganism in every farmstrip within 100 miles
The Butler Blackbird currently residing at Broadhead Airfield in Illinois
Plus about a dozen others I've fallen in love with over the years...
all of which just proves the point that no one aircraft will do it all and one really needs a full stable to meet all of one's requirements.
So, having won the millions and built a new hangar at Popham or Leicester, I'd fill it with:
Pitts S-2C for the simple and quick access fun plus local airshow performances
Corsair for serious warbirding
Taylorcraft BC-12 for general hooliganism in every farmstrip within 100 miles
The Butler Blackbird currently residing at Broadhead Airfield in Illinois
Plus about a dozen others I've fallen in love with over the years...
all of which just proves the point that no one aircraft will do it all and one really needs a full stable to meet all of one's requirements.
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Shirley the TB20 would have to go?
If I won the lottery, I would be totally stunned - as I have never bought a ticket!
That said, with unlimited funds, and after the obligatory family responsibilities and buying the necessary EC120, I would take both the ETPS and NTPS flight test pilot's courses!
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I would love to buy a smallish boat, perhaps £1,000,000 and drive it all around the uK, stopping off at interesting places.
Following that, I would take it to the Med or Florida, whatever takes my fancy.
Obviously I would put a lot of money into training. Sort of like PPL, then advanced Maritime navigation etc. I'm sure I would enjoy the training ( just as we do when learning to fly )
That's just one of the things that I would love to do with the money, possibly hire a skipper for the first few months to get me up to speed.
Re Aircraft ? Not sure at the moment, Probably wait many months considering my options but a house in a US Aviation Park sounds rather neat. In fact, that may well be my first buy.
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Following that, I would take it to the Med or Florida, whatever takes my fancy.
Obviously I would put a lot of money into training. Sort of like PPL, then advanced Maritime navigation etc. I'm sure I would enjoy the training ( just as we do when learning to fly )
That's just one of the things that I would love to do with the money, possibly hire a skipper for the first few months to get me up to speed.
Re Aircraft ? Not sure at the moment, Probably wait many months considering my options but a house in a US Aviation Park sounds rather neat. In fact, that may well be my first buy.
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Probably a P-51 and an early Spitfire, kept on my own strip along with a fairly serious tourer. May stay airline flying on a very part-time basis. No doubt I would be tempted by some sort of fractional ownership proposition of a jet but I probably wouldn't use one enough to justify the expense - would just charter when I went on holiday back to the UK. 
..... plus the inevitable Yak-52 and -50 to keep the hours down on the warbirds and a J-3 for going to the pub.
..... plus the inevitable Yak-52 and -50 to keep the hours down on the warbirds and a J-3 for going to the pub.
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Have to be a big house with a large runway and hangar next door and plenty of room on the front lawn for aircraft stands, free hangar spaces for select few, oh and a Lysander , Hurricane, Beech Stagerwing, steerman and a Extra for when I am feeling like a hooligan 
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Have to be a big house with a large runway and hangar next door and plenty of room on the front lawn for aircraft stands, free hangar spaces for select few, oh and a Lysander , Hurricane, Beech Stagerwing, steerman and a Extra for when I am feeling like a hooligan 
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Cessna Mustang for going places to play golf. Gazelle helicopter ex military for going to the EAA fly ins and a house at Spruce Creek in Florida with hangar attached to house them both, along with the Bentley Continental GTC.
In fact never mind the lottery I'll start working on the plan this week.
In fact never mind the lottery I'll start working on the plan this week.
Given my age and limited aviator's capacities, I am little likely to master a bizjet or even a twin turboprop in this life. So first spend the bucks on a nice country estate, along a river if possible, then a roomy plane to fly, ideally an amphibian. Grumman Goose?
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Well, all the boring stuff like family and pay my mortgage. Then....
- Finish my PPL of course then IMC, Night, and aeros ratings, maybe CPL
- Purchase Spitfire,Chipmunk and taildragger flying lessons
- Purchase NX611 the Lanc off the Panton brothers (and taxi her for fun)
- Load of AVGAS
- Oh, and a little run around of a Z3 and Z4!
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If I won the lottery, I would be totally stunned - as I have never bought a ticket!
I don't buy tickets either, as someone once said "The Lottery - a tax on people who don't understand maths"
I wouldn't bother buying a plane, boat, car or a helicopter as I'd be too pissed to drive them!
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Well as the racing driver Eddie Irvine said
" If It flies Floats or Flucks rent dont buy!" he probably had a lot of sense in all three areas As many of us have probably found out to our cost!!!
Marry one of the scores of babes who would be falling at your feet with your £100 mill and the flucks bit would cost you £50 mill
Probably cheaper to restore and get your own personal Concorde flying and at least that Bird will break the sound barrier Mind you the other Bird would also break the sound barrier enroute to the divorce courts
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" If It flies Floats or Flucks rent dont buy!" he probably had a lot of sense in all three areas
As many of us have probably found out to our cost!!!Marry one of the scores of babes who would be falling at your feet with your £100 mill and the flucks bit would cost you £50 mill
Probably cheaper to restore and get your own personal Concorde flying and at least that Bird will break the sound barrier
Mind you the other Bird would also break the sound barrier enroute to the divorce courts Pace
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easy!
First things would be a secondhand teleporter and a new Bobcat skid-steer!
Three new Pitts S2C's and commission 3 scratch rebuilt Vought Corsairs. I reckon I could keep that going with the interest. Why 3? - So my formation team could have a spare of each variety!
I'd have a turbine Beech A36 just for going places and a J3 Cub "to take folk flying".
I'd buy the neighbouring two farms and raise more prime beef for a challenge.
As for cars - with the interest I could have a new one every month - no hassle with MOT's or taxdiscs!
Did see a fantastic property in Italy in this week's ST - that might necessitate a capital outlay and a EC135!
But I reckon, I'm a pretty lucky guy already!
Stik
First things would be a secondhand teleporter and a new Bobcat skid-steer!
Three new Pitts S2C's and commission 3 scratch rebuilt Vought Corsairs. I reckon I could keep that going with the interest. Why 3? - So my formation team could have a spare of each variety!
I'd have a turbine Beech A36 just for going places and a J3 Cub "to take folk flying".
I'd buy the neighbouring two farms and raise more prime beef for a challenge.
As for cars - with the interest I could have a new one every month - no hassle with MOT's or taxdiscs!
Did see a fantastic property in Italy in this week's ST - that might necessitate a capital outlay and a EC135!
But I reckon, I'm a pretty lucky guy already!
Stik