In what historic aircraft would you most like to fly?
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Two-seat Spitfires, Hurricanes and Mustangs are now giving anyone with the money the chance to experience flight in these iconic aircraft. What other historic aircraft would you most like to fly?
There are no limits to what you can suggest, existent or extinct, single seat, multi seat, military or civil, you choose. Lets assume that if the original was single seat, a two seater could be created, or, as this is purely imaginary, an autopilot could take over if you (or I) mess things up.
My list (so far):
Wright 1903 Flyer
Demoiselle
Antoinette
Santos Dumont's No.9 Airship
F.E.8
Caproni Ca.4 Bomber
Sopwith Triplane
Handley Page Heyford
English Electric Wren
Sikorsky R.4 Hoverfly
Me163 Komet (hopefully a bit safer than the original)
De Havilland Hornet
Beecraft Wee Bee
North American X-15
There are no limits to what you can suggest, existent or extinct, single seat, multi seat, military or civil, you choose. Lets assume that if the original was single seat, a two seater could be created, or, as this is purely imaginary, an autopilot could take over if you (or I) mess things up.
My list (so far):
Wright 1903 Flyer
Demoiselle
Antoinette
Santos Dumont's No.9 Airship
F.E.8
Caproni Ca.4 Bomber
Sopwith Triplane
Handley Page Heyford
English Electric Wren
Sikorsky R.4 Hoverfly
Me163 Komet (hopefully a bit safer than the original)
De Havilland Hornet
Beecraft Wee Bee
North American X-15
Spitfire, by a mile.
It feels like it might be possible, which isn’t the case for other iconic things (f14, harrier, Vulcan) - which you know as a normal never flown punter would kill you before you’d taken off.
Let’s be honest though, as a normal guy that has only ever flown an x-wing on a pc, flying anything would be epic!
It feels like it might be possible, which isn’t the case for other iconic things (f14, harrier, Vulcan) - which you know as a normal never flown punter would kill you before you’d taken off.
Let’s be honest though, as a normal guy that has only ever flown an x-wing on a pc, flying anything would be epic!
Not sure I'd want to or ever be competent to fly 1940s high performance aircraft for example, but I'd want to see these fly in a display;
Avro Vulcan
BAC TSR2
Blackburn Skua
Blackburn B20
Blackburn Buccaneer
Bristol Brabazon
DH Albatross
DH Flamingo
Gloster Javelin
Handley Page Victor
Hawker Typhoon or Tempest Mk V or VI
Hawker Seahawk
Kyushu Shinden
Martin Baker MB5
Miles Libellula
Miles M20
Saunders Roe Princess
Short Sunderland
Supermarine Scimitar
Vickers Valiant
Vickers Wellington
Vickers Wellesley
Westland Wyvern
Westland P12 Wendover
Then I want to wander off into fantasy with these
Avro 730
Fairey Rotodyne
Miles M52
Vickers V1000/VC7
I'd have a go at these
Gloster Gladiator
Fairey Gannet
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
Westland Lysander
Avro Shackleton
Avro Vulcan
BAC TSR2
Blackburn Skua
Blackburn B20
Blackburn Buccaneer
Bristol Brabazon
DH Albatross
DH Flamingo
Gloster Javelin
Handley Page Victor
Hawker Typhoon or Tempest Mk V or VI
Hawker Seahawk
Kyushu Shinden
Martin Baker MB5
Miles Libellula
Miles M20
Saunders Roe Princess
Short Sunderland
Supermarine Scimitar
Vickers Valiant
Vickers Wellington
Vickers Wellesley
Westland Wyvern
Westland P12 Wendover
Then I want to wander off into fantasy with these
Avro 730
Fairey Rotodyne
Miles M52
Vickers V1000/VC7
I'd have a go at these
Gloster Gladiator
Fairey Gannet
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
Westland Lysander
Avro Shackleton
B1-B lancer, max chat at low level.
I was lucky enough to get a tour round one at Nellis in exchange for taking them on a tour of the Nimrod R1.
As most of the Nimrod R1 was secret uk eyes only, pretty much everything mission systems wise was covered up and I couldn’t tell them much.
I definitely got the better deal.
I was lucky enough to get a tour round one at Nellis in exchange for taking them on a tour of the Nimrod R1.
As most of the Nimrod R1 was secret uk eyes only, pretty much everything mission systems wise was covered up and I couldn’t tell them much.
I definitely got the better deal.
I really wanted to take a flight in a junkers JU53 when lufthansa and a couple of others in germany and switzerland did flights in them but aftetr a couple of accidents they seem to have all been pulled now.
Obviously things like a trip in a spitfire would be epic but i kind of like the more obscure stuff, one i've seen that does pleasure flights is the anotonov AN2, which could be good to experience their super slow flying capability.
Locally we have an Avro anson running our of Sleap airfield which is a bit diffenrece but they also run pleasure flights in a Yak too!
Obviously things like a trip in a spitfire would be epic but i kind of like the more obscure stuff, one i've seen that does pleasure flights is the anotonov AN2, which could be good to experience their super slow flying capability.
Locally we have an Avro anson running our of Sleap airfield which is a bit diffenrece but they also run pleasure flights in a Yak too!
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