"What airplane would you like to fly?" Topic

If you had a pilot's license, training, enough money, and a fully functional plane, what plane would you like to fly? It could be any era, but you wouldn't have to fly a combat mission.

P-38 , Because it was my all time favorite model plane.

Yeah… P-38, P-51 and B17

SR-71

English Electric Lightning.

No, wait…

Catalina.

Or maybe the Lightning.

Many, many of them.

Probably most realistic would be a little glider, or WWI era replica.

Of course, I'd love to fly many, many of them, from WWI fighters to Modern era jets, like the Su-27/Su-37, F-22, teen family of jets, F-106, F-4, Viggen, Eurofighter-Typhoon, P-51, Spitfire, Schwalbe, FW-190A and D, TA-152, Tempest, Me-109K, etc., etc..

Komet, probably most of all, just because I suspect there's nothing like strapping yourself into a little rocket fighter, and climbing almost vertically in the sky, then gliding silently back to Earth.

ME-163
ME-262
Spruce Goose

Absolutely none.

I would leave that to the professionals.

Hmmmm, daydreaming if I had the training, license, and resources; in other words, being a professional, what aircraft would I like to fly?

Sopwith Camel
Me 109
Spitfire
P51
C47 or DC3
Catalina
F16
XR71

Mike

All of them

Except an Me163…..

Spitfire Mk1
Fokker Triplane

For the sake of choosing a military model:

Piper L-4 Grasshopper

For that astounding view during a bank!

A seaplane, like the Catalina, or possibly something smaller, WWII/pulp era.

OV-10 Bronco

Got to fly back seater in an F4 through the grand canyon, got sick as a dog, it was freaking awesome.

Always wanted to try a diving run in an SBD,to see what that was like.

I knew a guy who was shot down in the Coral sea battle. He was still flying WWI biplanes in his sixties at this place,till they made him stop:

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He was not happy.

I'm with David- all of them. I'm even ok with the ME163, flying it would be fun. I wouldn't want to land it, though (it used nasty fuel that both had the chance to explode if you landed to hard, and if it splashed on you, it was corrosive in the extreme).

Hurricane

P-40

B-26

P-38

P-47

Spitfire

B-25

SBD

WW1 Spad XIII

WW1 Nieuport-1

F-22

The list goes on but those are the highlights.

BV 141 – just for the strangeness of the design.

I once flew a Stearman biplane – under close adult supervision and not takeoff or landing. That was very cool.

Catalina or an A-10.

A-10 for me.

Nieuport C.28
P-38
F-86
P-40
P-51
Fokker D.VII

Pretty much anything I suppose but if I had to settle on just one, a Hurricane.

A-10 Thunderbolt!

None the machinist of operating transport is left to the underlings

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Seaplane for sure.

Grumman Goose

Spitfire and P-47.

Spitfire, or if we're talking a long long time ago, the Millennium falcon.

Spitfire
Mustang
Sabre

Avro 504
Sopwith Camel
Chipmonk
Spitfire or Hurricane
Wellington
Lightning

F8 Crusader. Pretty close to being on the nose of a horizontal rocket.

Albatross D3
Curtiss Jenny
DH-4
C-47
JU-52
Fiesler Storch
F4U Corsair
Grumman TBF Avenger
SBD Douglas Dauntless
Douglas Skyraider A-1
OV-10 Bronco
C130 Spectre
B-52

not good enough reflexes even younger to even consider any jet fighter.

Spitfire. Of course.

Piston engined only. By country…
Spitfire
Spiteful
Sea Fury
MB 5
Mosquito
Ta 152
He 219
BV 238
P-39
P-61
F4U
TBF
G.55
SM.79

Best aircraft that I've flown is the Northtop T-38 Talon.

I imagine an ultralight would be most fun to fly. Open air, slow and low. Take your time and enjoy the sights from the air.

The planes which my Grandfather flew…. an old DH9 over Russia in the service of the White Army. 47th Sqn… Royal Air Corps 1919. J. Stalin properly waved at my grandfather.

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Still have all his gear, log books, photos and various items from that adventure…. plus of course his flying time over Palestine, Greece, Egypt/Sudan and the western front early in his piloting days.

Given my rudimentary flying experience, a DC-3, the plane so stable it nearly flies itself. I'd stay away from those frisky fighter planes, since they killed neophyte pilots.

Fun? Sail planes, otherwise known as fixed wing gliders. I have flown some of those.

Worked on A-10's and F-15's, of those two a F-15 going straighg up could be a rush. Of WWII planes always loved the Mosquito.

P47 TBolt
DeHavilland Mosquito
A-10 TBolt II
F4 Phantom II

Fokker D.VII

Absolutely. No. Desire. To fly. A plane. Ever. Period.

An easier question to answer is what airplane wouldn't I like to fly?

SR-71

Spitfire

Sopwith Camel

All sorts of 'em,baby.

P-47, TA 152, P38

Tomcat, A-10

B-17 please