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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: AKKuya on January 06, 2012, 04:50:27 PM
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If you had lots of money to burn, what WW2 aircraft would you buy first?
I would buy a B-17 Flying Fortress either good to go or have one refurbished back to airworthy status.
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If you had lots of money to burn, what WW2 aircraft would you buy first?
I would buy a B-17 Flying Fortress either good to go or have one refurbished back to airworthy status.
If I had the money of Gates, Turner, or Buffett, I'd make sure to "spread the wealth" over a number of aircraft and make sure there were enough people to properly restore, repair, and maintain the aircraft I'd be garaging/using.
I'd do my damnedest to find a P40, and I'd my damnedest to commission someone to rebuild (or build from scratch) a Mossi FB Mk IV, a German 109G, and whatever non-P51 aircraft I could fine, really.
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If you had lots of money to burn, what WW2 aircraft would you buy first?
I would buy a B-17 Flying Fortress either good to go or have one refurbished back to airworthy status.
I would search until the ends of the earth to find B-17 parts, and then have it restored to flying quality. But add in an extra .50 cal to each waist gun, a chin turret with 4 .50 cals, and a second dorsal turret.
Oh, wait. That's a YB-40 :D
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I either would want a P51 or F4U, but I would probably want the P51. Those are probably the 2 easiest airplanes to get parts for
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Probably a ME-262
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In this order:
Mossie Mk VI
Bf 109F-4
P47-M
Bf 110-G
FW 190-A8
Spit XVI
A-20
F4U-1A
:salute
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190
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PBY
Id fly all over the Caribbean....port to port
Sunsets and salt air
Margaritaville everynight baby.....Cheeseburger in paradise :aok
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109 Emils first
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P-61 Black widow, can hold 3 people..and can also navigate well at night. Can also keep flying if one engine craps out.
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If it completely 100% had to be a WW2 bird, it would be a P-47D-40.
If were talking any war, i'd take the delicious F4 Phantom.
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I would buy a group of aircraft together and donate them back to the museum i belong to. All of the aircraft would be the exact previous aircraft we had but were taken away from us against our will.
The group would include:
1x A20H (currently at 1942 historic aircraft group)
3x B-26's (Akron Canton- MAPS)
1x P-39 (Chino California)
1x P-40 (Akron Canton - MAPS)
1x P-47D (Private owner in Midwest, hasnt flown in years)
1x P-51D (Location Unknown)
1x Storch (Location Unknown)
1x Lysander (Location Unknown)
If i could only buy one aircraft, it would probably be the A-20 since none are flying world wide.
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If it completely 100% had to be a WW2 bird, it would be a P-47D-40.
If were talking any war, i'd take the delicious F4 Phantom.
We are in the process looking into acquiring an F4C. Its ours if we want it... Just comes down the $$$ side
http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/McDonnell-F-4C-Phantom/1948714/L/&sid=8d2d3a746affdcd30bc5c07ffe0b0946
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Bearcat, Hellcat or Thunderbolt. Will settle for an SBD. :)
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We are in the process looking into acquiring an F4C. Its ours if we want it... Just comes down the $$$ side
http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/McDonnell-F-4C-Phantom/1948714/L/&sid=8d2d3a746affdcd30bc5c07ffe0b0946
Nice...very nice.
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P61 simply because it is so rare.
F7F to keep the wife happy.
B-25
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Why! My very own Brewster Buffaloe to Finnish Specs of course........ :t
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NONE, why would I wanna be saddled with an attention hog like a WW2 aeroplane.. Granted, at a different time in my life, that would have been desirable to me.. But right now, Id rather have the equal value in Gold coin and Rifle Ammo..
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If you had lots of money to burn, what WW2 aircraft would you buy first?
I would buy a B-17 Flying Fortress either good to go or have one refurbished back to airworthy status.
if i had the money, i'd buy this from the air force.....
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6650336561_ac4513241b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148615@N03/6650336561/)
P 38 McGuire AFB (http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148615@N03/6650336561/) by 1LtCap (http://www.flickr.com/people/70148615@N03/), on Flickr
and get her back in the air where she belongs.
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if i had the money, i'd buy this from the air force.....
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6650336561_ac4513241b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148615@N03/6650336561/)
P 38 McGuire AFB (http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148615@N03/6650336561/) by 1LtCap (http://www.flickr.com/people/70148615@N03/), on Flickr
and get her back in the air where she belongs.
AAAAaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnd... promptly crash her on landing shedding parts all over the runway in the truest of SAPP traditions.
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That is a hard one......P-47D-25, P-61, 190D-9, Bristol Beaufighter, Do-17 or Me-410
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AAAAaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnd... promptly crash her on landing shedding parts all over the runway in the truest of SAPP traditions.
shush you!! :neener:
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AAAAaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnd... promptly crash her on landing shedding parts all over the runway in the truest of SAPP traditions.
Im pretty sure if he works on cars, he could find the pieces of the plane and duct-tape it back together. :D
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Im pretty sure if he works on cars, he could find the pieces of the plane and duct-tape it back together. :D
Wow bro that's like awesome bro....
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:rofl :rofl :rofl ...
bro.
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Wow bro that's like awesome bro....
bro, sorry bro. i bro overused bro didnt bro i bro?
but hey, why should i go back on the promise i made to my mother on fighting with girls? dm shouldnt be an acception...
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bro, sorry bro. i bro overused bro didnt bro i bro?
but hey, why should i go back on the promise i made to my mother on fighting with girls? dm shouldnt be an acception...
She loves talking about me doesn't she bro
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She loves talking about me doesn't she bro
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/slayerjared/pwned.jpg)
Bro?
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hmmm why not a
(http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/AARG/images/i16-3.jpg)
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if i had the money, i'd buy this from the air force.....
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6650336561_ac4513241b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148615@N03/6650336561/)
P 38 McGuire AFB (http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148615@N03/6650336561/) by 1LtCap (http://www.flickr.com/people/70148615@N03/), on Flickr
and get her back in the air where she belongs.
We got our P51 from a gate gaurd. It had all of 40 hours on it as well.
But why get that when you can get a Glacier Girl for a cool 2mil and restore it to you liking? there are still at least 5 left up there.
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in my town there is a p47 d40 in the airbase that is used as a statue, I don't remember if it is fake, only passed by it a few times don't remember.
EDIT: just researched... it has been rebuilt and it now flies in airshows in the USA ._. lol we fail. Badly. :rofl
anyway it never actually fllew in the war.
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I would want a 109g doesn't matter which model g...or a p47d because I have always had a thing for jugs :)
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Im pretty sure if he works on cars, he could find the pieces of the plane and duct-tape it back together. :D
naww.. he's a 'tecneshan'... he'd need an 'enginerd' and a 'deseyener' to give him prints to not be able to read before he resorted to duct tape and superglue..
sorry Cap.. Had to :devil
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naww.. he's a 'tecneshan'... he'd need an 'enginerd' and a 'deseyener' to give him prints to not be able to read before he resorted to duct tape and superglue..
sorry Cap.. Had to :devil
:lol
It was only a matter of time before that came up. :D
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PBY
Id fly all over the Caribbean....port to port
Sunsets and salt air
Margaritaville everynight baby.....Cheeseburger in paradise :aok
Pure genius :aok
I'd have to get a P-51. It just can't get old flying one with the speed and that bubble canopy. Plus chicks dig the Mustang, scientific fact.
A P-61 and and a Ki-84 would round me out just fine.
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Spit VIII
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Emil or Friedrich... can I have both? :D
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We got our P51 from a gate gaurd. It had all of 40 hours on it as well.
But why get that when you can get a Glacier Girl for a cool 2mil and restore it to you liking? there are still at least 5 left up there.
that would be cool.......but too hard to do for me anyway.
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If I had the money, I would be the biggest hero of the WWII aviation community ever.
First things first, Id free up all the planes stuck in Greenland ice. Then on to anything and everything else that I could get my hands on.
I rather pull a 38 out of the ice than buy one sitting on static display, because I want to improve the numbers of aircraft.
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Spit VIII
:D
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FM-2 or Grumman Goose
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I saw a TV show where a couple converted a Catalina into a flying coach. That would be pretty awesome.
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if i had the money, i'd buy this from the air force.....
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6650336561_ac4513241b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148615@N03/6650336561/)
P 38 McGuire AFB (http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148615@N03/6650336561/) by 1LtCap (http://www.flickr.com/people/70148615@N03/), on Flickr
and get her back in the air where she belongs.
I agree with cap :huh :uhoh:headscratch:.... P38
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P38l, just because u dont see alot of them around, i never see them at the air show wherr i live.
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one of those Jap Rufe float plane would be cool too :cool:
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Good luck talking Denmark into letting someone up on the ice to pull another one out after the fiasco that was the recovery last time.
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I would get either a B-25 or a Mustang. :aok
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Good luck talking Denmark into letting someone up on the ice to pull another one out after the fiasco that was the recovery last time.
Why would denmark have anything to say? they are in Greenland and no country is claiming them.
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...really?
And that "fiasco that was the recovery last time"
Was that Darryl What's-his-name? WIth the B-29?
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Why would denmark have anything to say? they are in Greenland and no country is claiming them.
Greenland is a part of the Commonwealth of Denmark. If you do some research into the original agreements (or knew those involved) you would know that in return for giving permission to salvage the aircraft in the ice sheet, the Danish government was promised a museum worthy display P-38 in return for allowing the expedition access to ice sheet. As is widely known now, the original attempts to find the aircraft ate up tremendous sums of money and caused great friction amongst the original group. I am not going to get involved in the arguments and strife surrounding the final settlement of the recovery and subsequent restoration efforts. Suffice it to say, Mr. Schoffner put a great amount of money into that restoration and recovery effort and a likeness of an early P-38 is flying now.
The final issue remains that the expedition and recovery team promised a P-38 to the Danish government for museum display, and it never happened. Now, if you were the Danish government, would you play that same game twice?
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Why would denmark have anything to say? they are in Greenland and no country is claiming them.
Google "Greenland".
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twin engine- B-25
single engine- F4F wildcat
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Spitv :aok
:cheers: Oz
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F6F-5
Then purchase an R-2800-18w and a Hamilton-Standard propeller with four 6501 blades. Reengineer it to F6F-6 specifications....and have the fastest, climbingest Hellcat that ever flew.
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P38-J
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I would want a PBY for cruising around the Carib/Hawaii for surfing.
A B-29 retro fitted as my personal transportation.
A P-51 for whatever comes up.
A P-38 for fun.
And..... an RV-8 :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :D