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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Vulcan on September 23, 2008, 11:49:55 PM
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My boss got 2 tickets for $600NZ (~$390 US, ie $195 a ride). He's not sure if he wants to go I'm thinking he might let me buy a ticket :D
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About half as much as I would to get to shoot one down in my 109. :D
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Half an hour? $1500 but only as long as he promised not to HO. :devil
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BoSoxFan there seems to be a huge 86 year gap in your avatar. What happened?
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My boss got 2 tickets for $600NZ (~$390 US, ie $195 a ride). He's not sure if he wants to go I'm thinking he might let me buy a ticket :D
Well, apparently something in the line of $2,390 US :)
How cheap are flights from Melbourne to NZ? I don't see myself ever heading straight to NZ from the States, but I'll probably end up going to Aussieland a few times in my life now that one of my best pals has decided to live there forever and ever :)
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Gosh I don't know.
For stick time, like the guy climbs to 200 AGL and gives me the stick for a half hour....$200 would be fair. I probably wouldn't buy it, but that would be a fair value.
Not alot of opportunities to fly a spit out there nowadays.
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BoSoxFan there seems to be a huge 86 year gap in your avatar. What happened?
They went on vacation to DisneyLand. :aok
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Bargain.
Let this whet your appetite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8IlpENTJP4
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Bargain alright,,,
I`m over to NZ in Jan/Feb I`ll snap one up.. :D
you cant get a balloon flight for that in the uk
go for it..it`d be great
<S>
Jimmy
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I would even buy the two of them for an hour of flight :D :D
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I paid $350.00 for a ride in a B-17
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For stick time, like the guy climbs to 200 AGL and gives me the stick for a half hour....$200 would be fair. I probably wouldn't buy it, but that would be a fair value.
you are kidding right? :huh
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The Collings Foundation based in Stow Massachusetts travels around with an assortment of planes. Bomber rides are roughly 350.00 to 450.00 USD., and a ride in the TP-51C is about 2200.00 per half hour and 3200.00 per hour USD.
My wife is going to "allow" me an hour in that badboy next summer for my 40th B-day. For that money, I wouldn't even think twice about jumping into the Spitty. :aok(beats the s**t out of a Cessna 172).
Go for it :rock
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Gosh I don't know.
For stick time, like the guy climbs to 200 AGL and gives me the stick for a half hour....$200 would be fair. I probably wouldn't buy it, but that would be a fair value.
Not alot of opportunities to fly a spit out there nowadays.
LOL!!! for "stick time" its about 2 million so you can buy your own dam spitfire ! LOL!!
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Two Testies,,,, oh wait my wife has those.... :D
:rofl :rofl
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My boss got 2 tickets for $600NZ (~$390 US, ie $195 a ride). He's not sure if he wants to go I'm thinking he might let me buy a ticket :D
That is amazingly cheap for a ride in a WWII fighter. As others have mentioned, the price in the US for rides in P-51's is in the US$2000-US$3000 range. For rides in WWII bombers, the prices are in the US$400 range.
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http://www.warbirdadventures.com/t-6_prices.htm (http://www.warbirdadventures.com/t-6_prices.htm)
Above is a link to the prices for a T-6/SNJ/Harvard ride(you get to fly it also, even in formation) in Kissimmee FL, that $390US for a spitty sounds like a deal!
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You for real vulc? How's hell yer!
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That is amazingly cheap for a ride in a WWII fighter. As others have mentioned, the price in the US for rides in P-51's is in the US$2000-US$3000 range. For rides in WWII bombers, the prices are in the US$400 range.
Yeah thats what I thought, he picked them up at a charity auction. He's having 2nd thoughts at selling one now, my enthusiasm was somewhat of a giveaway :(
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They went on vacation to DisneyLand. :aok
Glad to see another die hard Sox fan here :)
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Glad to see another die hard Sox fan here :)
A sox fan living in New York, Isn't that grounds for execution?
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I'd sell you my soul if you let me ride in a REAL Spitfire!!!!!!! :O :O :eek: :eek:
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Ill take any spares mate :aok
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I'm not a WWII historian, and by far not an expert concerning any plane, but please correct me if I'm Wong. Isn't the Spitfire a single seat er? If so how can you go for a ride?
Just wondering,
Fred
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I'm not a WWII historian, and by far not an expert concerning any plane, but please correct me if I'm Wong. Isn't the Spitfire a single seat er? If so how can you go for a ride?
Just wondering,
Fred
probably a trainer version, 2 seats one behind another, dual controls.
tough question, a spit is like a moped or fat chick...
but at the same time how many can say they rode Rosie Odonnel?
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Gosh I don't know.
For stick time, like the guy climbs to 200 AGL and gives me the stick for a half hour....$200 would be fair. I probably wouldn't buy it, but that would be a fair value.
Not alot of opportunities to fly a spit out there nowadays.
There wouldn't be a stick for YOU to do anything with, trust me.... No matter how much you paid him.
I flew with the Red Barron aerobatic team, 2 seat stearman. Nothing for me to fly with up in front. I was dissapointed, but you got to imagine if some Ahole got in there and started fighting over the controls. Not a good Idea[d].
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I'd pay $200 for the ride, no sweat. I'd record the flight, do some high G turns and show all you dweebs that the real thing lost energy in a turn. :D
Fwiw, when my buddy and I rented a Grob it ran ~$80 a couple years ago for about an hour of flight time. $200 for a little time in a Spit is a superb deal.
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edit: If I didn't get a little bit of stick time I would reconsider.
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I'd gladly pay $200 for a ride in a Spit.
Is this a serious question?
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edit: If I didn't get a little bit of stick time I would reconsider.
You wouldn't. It'd be a great ride, I am sure of that.
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If you want stick time in a TF-51, (dual controls) ..
www.stallion51.com is the place to go.
You will be flyin with a CFI in type, so it goes in your log if you have one.
If not, he will turn the controls over to yas whenever you want to go.. and talk you thru whatever you want to do.
And film it.
Full Aerobatics workout including accelerated stalls both left and right, combat flaps, the works;
ground attack, air-air (if the other school is up :)
..an such.
It is the *best* time with a machine I have had on this planet.
Just sayin.
-GE
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Yeah thats what I thought, he picked them up at a charity auction. He's having 2nd thoughts at selling one now, my enthusiasm was somewhat of a giveaway :(
In that case, you might have to beat the s**t out of him :t
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10 years ago I got a chance to take a ride on a P-51 mustang for $900 an hour - that was 10 years ago can't imagine the prices now a day's for gas.
Now getting a ride on a F4u Corsair is roughly $2100 an hour today's price, mainly the gas and maintenance to keep the bird airworthy is why its so high.
Think every hour a bird is in the air requires ten folds the amount of maintenance checking on the plane. Last thing you want is what happened to the me109 at the airshow - crash landed causing hundred thousand dollars in damage, almost a total lost in fact.
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Theres a P-51D that does flights out of Caboolture, just north of Brisbane Australia. But they arent cheap, at around $1500AUD for a 20 min blast.
http://www.mustangflights.com/gifts.php
I managed to get a sit in a Spit a couple of weeks ago and had the mechanic go through pre-flight and start-up procedures with me.
Put a serious grin on my dial for quite a while thats for sure. :D
I wouldnt hesitate on the deal he got for an instant to get in the air in one :aok
Sharrk...
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FYI
Cost $2000 to fly for an hour IN a Lancaster here in Hamilton On.
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Now getting a ride on a F4u Corsair is roughly $2100 an hour today's price, mainly the gas and maintenance to keep the bird airworthy is why its so high.
I'm familiar with a few places that sell P-51 rides. What's the place that sells F4U rides?
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wouldent pay a dime, but, if it was a P-47, thats a different story = )
-BigBOBCH
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I give u wife......you toss her outta plane. :aok.....split insurance money with you........ :D.