Fantasy Airshow Display

[Voldemort]

So if you were asked to put your 10 favourite aircraft in a display what would you pick? You can only pick aircraft of which there are currently flying examples!

I’ll give you the BBMF - Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster - and the Red Arrows as the opening and closing flights, you pick the 10 in the middle…

BBMF
Gladiator
Mosquito
B17
ME262
Harrier
B52
A10
Osprey
Starfighter
SU35
Red Arrows

The bonus question is which plane would you add that is not currently allowed to fly? Although this is likely to become a straight race between Concorde and Vulcan, my vote is for a Wellington.

[Eric Mc]

As far as I know there is no ban on Wellingtons flying.

[Boatbuoy]

My 10 would be:

SR-71
Nimrod MR2
Lightning (English Electric)
RNLAF F27 Friendship
AAC Blue Eagles (4 Gazzelle 1 Lynx)
Bugatti 100P
RAF Typhoon
RAF Chinook
B1-B Lancer
DH Mosquito

I've ignored the rule about only being flying examples. After all it is a fantasy airshow!

Edited by Boatbuoy on Thursday 29th October 16:37

[Voldemort]

Eric Mc said:

As far as I know there is no ban on Wellingtons flying.

And as far as I'm aware, there isn't a flying example...

[hammo19]

Only 10...

TSR2
A10 Thunderbolt
An224 Mryia
B29 Superfortress
XB70 Valkyrie
L1049 Super Constellation
TU95 Bear
IAI Kfir
A5 Vigilante
DC8 63F

Plus Vulcan of course

[hammo19]

hammo19 said:

Only 10...

TSR2
A10 Thunderbolt
An224 Mryia
B29 Superfortress
XB70 Valkyrie
L1049 Super Constellation
TU95 Bear
IAI Kfir
A5 Vigilante
DC8 63F

Plus Vulcan of course

Ah if only I read the OP - they are flying in my imagination

[Elroy Blue]

Beaufighter, Typhoon (Hawker) and Whirlwind (not the helicopter) would be my top three

[Gretchen]

Fantasy...

Canberra
Dakota
SR-71
B17
PBY Catalina
Mustang P51D
V22 Osprey
Nimrod
Hercules C130
Lancaster

And then I'd be flown home in a 1937 aluminium polished Spartan Executive whilst sipping a G&T.

Lots of sentimental reasons as at one point or another I've seen, been in or touched all of the above.

[vournikas]

Of stuff I've never seen, and / or that I assume there are still flying examples :-

B1-B
B2
Su-29
747SP
MiG-25
F4 Corsair
Mirage 2000
Super Constellation
B52
707

[NM62]

Not seen

Typhoon (Hawker)
AC-130 (In Action at Night)
C-130 (JATO)
Tu-22M Backfire
Mig-25
XB-70
RA-5 Vigilante
F-105
F-106
F-117

Seen but like (need) to see again.

A-10
B-1B
B-52D
F-104
F-15
SR-71
Gannet
Buccaneer
Lightning
Mirage V (JATO)

[dvs_dave]

All the Cold War stuff already mentioned. But add in:

The whole V-bomber fleet, (not just the Vulcan)
TU-22 Blinder
TU-160 Blackjack
TU-95 Bear
TU-16 Badger
Mig-25 Foxbat
F-22 Raptor
F-35 Lightening II

And a few other Cold War oddities that I've probably missed.

[ktcanuck]

F-14 2 ship afterburner take-off
F-111 3 ship afterburner take-off
Mosquito, Spitfire, Hurricane simultaneous take-off and fly over
F-104 5 different air forces
F-4 4 different air forces
EE Lightning
Vulcan
A-10
A-7
C-5
F-15
Buccaneer
Mirage F1

1977 Greenham Common. When air displays really were fantastic.

[ph1l5]

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
Douglas A-1 Skyraider
F100 Super Sabre
F105 Thunderchief
FMA IA 58 Pucará
British Aerospace Sea Harrier
Kamov Ka-50
English Electric Lightning
Blackburn Buccaneer
Hawker Sea Fury
Mikoyan MiG-29
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle

[V8 Fettler]

Ten Aardvarks fuel dumping, at night of course.

[Mr Noble]

SR-71
F-22
Vulcan
Project Aroura
Space Shuttle.


That'd do