Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: LePaul on August 03, 2005, 07:33:18 PM
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Holy crap. (http://www.worldwidewarbirds.com/Mig_29_Sale.aspx)
I think it includes membership to OPEC :p
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Sweet plane.
If I had more money than sense, I'd probably get a Columbia 400 so I could carry my family fast, but still land at small airports without, well, dying.
If I had more money than that, I'd get myself a DC-3 with a turboprop conversion and the 'Old Dog' (B-52) treatment.
If I had 'all the money in the world', I'd just pay a crew of people to build me a space infrastructure (along with the mach 25 launchers that would entail). Then I'd hang out at L5 blowing raspberries at you guys before going back to my zero-g sex party.
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haha courtesy aircraft was selling a pc-9 for around that price....thats pretty damn cheap for a mig. Of course maintenance and insurance on the pig would be out of this world.
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yup the Mait. would get down right expensive. Of course if you had all the money in the world it wouldnt matter.
BUT,
According to FAA standards if a plane has any type of egress system it along with the rest of the A/C need to be fully maintained in order to be flight ready.
Russion explosives and a tech qualified to work K series seats to perform time-changes and such would be a bugger to find in the US. Not impossible but a bugger.
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That's an amazing amount of technology for $4 million. I hope the US gov't is smart enough to take several for an Aggressor squadron... if we don't already have 'em.
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Where does R2D2 sit?
eskimo
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Under the pilot's seat?
I'll take an aerobatic prop plane with side-by-side seating please. No need to be greedy about it. :)
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Tandem is much better. They barf in their own lap, not yours. ;)
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My lottery airplane...
(http://www.vickivt.com/vicki/planes/albatross%20int%20anim.gif) (http://www.canadianrodder.com/Feature%20Pages/Dream%20Machines/albatross.jpg)
(http://www.lpba.org/photos/albtrss2.JPG) (http://www.lpba.org/photos/hd2004b.JPG)
with a turboprop conversion...
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Whoa, sweet. I think Holden wins!
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until there is an actual flying WWII Fd190-d9 NOT a replica, and NOT some bastard conversion with parts from 10 different types of 190's, i wont be buying a "warbird" with any money
all the money in the world for any plane?
i'd pick a small custom home built type i saw at the EAA with 2 seats, and a high speed / G rating. i dont remeber the name, but it was smaller than my car, and 2 seats side by side. it was sleek looking, and about all i'd be interested for now.
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If I had the money, I'd give enough to the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum to finish the restorations on their P-61 in exchange for a freakin' huge plaque somewhere saying I ponied up the dough for it and being a passenger on the first flight when she is restored.
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I hear these are pretty cool, even if they don't go above mach.
(http://www.airtouring.com/ATGAircraft/Javelin.jpg)
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$4,000,000 is chump change for a jet these days. Of course
the folks I deal with would just pass the expenses on to their
customers anyway.
An additional problem is finding training for the 29 and a place
to wring it out somewhere close to the US. That bird is not
noted for it's long legs.
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If I had all the money in the world?
Easy
(http://www.militaryairshows.net/spits/steve.jpg)
The most beautifull aeroplane ever built!
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I'm with Holden, but I'd settle for a Catalina :)
Daniel
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Originally posted by Skydancer
If I had all the money in the world?
Easy
The most beautifull aeroplane ever built!
What Mark is that with three bladed prop and the Gryphon engine?
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
I hear these are pretty cool, even if they don't go above mach.
(http://www.airtouring.com/ATGAircraft/Javelin.jpg)
What is this? Details...looks cool!
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Hey LePaul, I did my flight training at Deer Valley Airport where that place is at. Flew there for almost 5 years. Used to watch these things take off and land. They are super cool. Except when coming on 25r or 25l over the mountain, appeared to be a little tricky as these guys were usually right at legal speed under 10k.
Usually there are about 15 or so of these things, in various states of rebuilding, sitting on the north side of the airport by our hangers. Great buch of guys that work over there.
If I had the money?
This would be it......CLICK (http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/images/p51_mustang_lg.jpg)
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LP, it's a Javelin.
Javelin (http://www.avtechgroup.com/javelin_tour_site/index.html)
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Interesting site...all diagrams...they have any/many of these flying?
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Ok, so my tastes in aviating style doesn't involve my hair being on fire doing mach 2....
(http://www.aeronca.org/AeroncaL16Night.jpg)
This is a very nice lil Aeronca L-16. Aviating along quite nicely, windows open, lotsa scenery.. you can see folks smile and wave.. and you ain't so buzy trying to put yer flaming hair out that you can't smile and wave back.
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Originally posted by Edbert
What Mark is that with three bladed prop and the Gryphon engine?
its a V, has a merlin engine.
If i had all the money in the world.. i would own a Spitfire as above and an SE5A (something about them i just love)
Something about WWI aircraft... To quote Cecil Lewis (56 Squadron SE5 pilot): -
The way the Earth looked, falling; swallowing to stop deafness at altitude; the screams of wires; stars between the wings; grass blown down when engines were run up; the smell - of dope, and castor oil and vanish in new cockpits; moonlight shining on struts; the gasps before the dive; machine-guns
(http://www.militaryairshows.net/shuttleworth/se5a.jpg)
(http://www.militaryairshows.net/shuttleworth/se5b.jpg)
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Furball is that the RAE replica SE5a My old man made the bits that hold the bracing wires to the wings when he was an apprentice at Farnborough. Dunno what they are called.
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(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Attack/NakedFanny2oClock.jpg)
or (http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Attack/A10BankingHard.jpg)
Always liked these for some reason.
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I would dig up the rest of the 38s on Iceland and try to put together enough to give one to the Air Force Museum, one to the Smithsonian and one, the least original, to keep as a flyer.
Charon