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Title: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: Muzzy on June 15, 2015, 12:46:44 PM
Which plane would you want to fly if you could get just one hour in it. (Assume you magically get the required training.)
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: ink on June 15, 2015, 12:52:20 PM
growing up never flew or even been in a plane....for my 40th I went and flew a super decathlon........

it was very easy to fly...all the things in AH I did..only difference was the rudder peddles were much harder to push.....well until my body experienced vertigo!!!!!!  :rofl :rofl


but if I could fly any WW2 it would definitely be the P40 from the Flying Tigers!
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: Muzzy on June 15, 2015, 01:01:42 PM
It's a tough call because it's not my favorite aircraft in the game, but I'd have to try a Spit because of its reputation as a wonderfully fun bird to fly.
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Post by: SilverZ06 on June 15, 2015, 01:04:17 PM
P38 with the sr71 and a10 very close seconds.
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Post by: ink on June 15, 2015, 01:08:16 PM
It's a tough call because it's not my favorite aircraft in the game, but I'd have to try a Spit because of its reputation as a wonderfully fun bird to fly.

spit would be a blast to fly!!!

P38 with the sr71 and a10 very close seconds.

I have no desire to fly any jet engine plane...even though the A10 is a sick plane....would much rather experience the WW2 birds....

P38 would be fun...

hell you guys that get to fly in the real world.... you dont know how lucky you are....the one thing I am envious of.... :old:
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Post by: Someguy63 on June 15, 2015, 01:10:57 PM
The P39.



Just kidding! No I haven't been taking drugs.

I would fly a 109G2.
I couldn't resist saying my second choice would be a 262.
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Post by: BoilerDown on June 15, 2015, 01:13:29 PM
Do gliders count?  Space Shuttle orbiter.
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Post by: Ripsnort on June 15, 2015, 01:16:45 PM
Boeing Pea Shooter. :)

(http://www.warbird-photos.com/airtoair/2006-05-10/A2A-2006-05-10_P-26A_Peashooter_-_AT-12_Guardsman_01.jpg)
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Post by: Spikes on June 15, 2015, 01:17:07 PM
Concorde.
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Post by: hgtonyvi on June 15, 2015, 01:20:15 PM
I'll fly either a f4u, jug or a 190.
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Post by: JOACH1M on June 15, 2015, 01:21:51 PM
109, followed by a spit and 51 :)
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Post by: Delirium on June 15, 2015, 01:22:17 PM
The decent of the lunar module of Apollo 11.

Without a time machine, I would have to say more stick time in the T6 (that was fun times).

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Post by: ink on June 15, 2015, 01:34:05 PM
Boeing Pea Shooter. :)

(http://www.warbird-photos.com/airtoair/2006-05-10/A2A-2006-05-10_P-26A_Peashooter_-_AT-12_Guardsman_01.jpg)

whats that bare metal one?


cool looking plane.


the one I flew

(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/stacey024-1.jpg) (http://s178.photobucket.com/user/fieldsofink/media/stacey024-1.jpg.html)

(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/stacey044.jpg) (http://s178.photobucket.com/user/fieldsofink/media/stacey044.jpg.html)

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Post by: Nypsy on June 15, 2015, 01:40:17 PM
(http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q586/eggshen2912/f-86F_zps81cf5b01.jpg) (http://s1165.photobucket.com/user/eggshen2912/media/f-86F_zps81cf5b01.jpg.html)

AND

(http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q586/eggshen2912/Artwork-by-aviationclassics-titled-Black-Tulip-0A_zpsff993801.jpg) (http://s1165.photobucket.com/user/eggshen2912/media/Artwork-by-aviationclassics-titled-Black-Tulip-0A_zpsff993801.jpg.html)
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: Wiley on June 15, 2015, 02:01:22 PM
Is it armed and I get to shoot at a target?  A-10 please.  I would very much like to BRRRRT something.

If not, I'd go back to something from the war.  I'd have such a tough time choosing, and it'd depend on the day.  Today, 190D9.  Tomorrow could be P47D or Spit.

Wiley.
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Post by: Volron on June 15, 2015, 02:17:18 PM
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EgB1xZuXndY/T5CPg5r5YoI/AAAAAAAACnw/b8FlCWUy31M/s1600/Space_Shuttle_Discovery.png)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEOJaNMQZo

 :D
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: tmetal on June 15, 2015, 02:38:02 PM
whats that bare metal one?


A P36 Hawk (I think)  predecessor of the P40 IIRC

fly for just one hour? a Bf109F

The D17 staggerwing is a close second
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp5/Denzil83/Aircraft/staggerSFF.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Denzil83/media/Aircraft/staggerSFF.jpg.html)
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Post by: Zoney on June 15, 2015, 02:39:11 PM
WW2 stuff..........I'll take the Me262, close 2nd would be the TA152.


Any plane..............SR71.
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: Meatwad on June 15, 2015, 03:23:46 PM
Space P-38

(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g61/escaflowne373/fighter2b1.jpg) (http://s53.photobucket.com/user/escaflowne373/media/fighter2b1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: Volron on June 15, 2015, 03:36:15 PM
Space P-38

(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g61/escaflowne373/fighter2b1.jpg) (http://s53.photobucket.com/user/escaflowne373/media/fighter2b1.jpg.html)

Oh, we are going beyond what we had/have?

Then:

(http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/images/Gtfloki.jpg)

 :x
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: Blooz on June 15, 2015, 03:55:27 PM
Sopwith Pup
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Post by: Mar on June 15, 2015, 04:35:25 PM
Space P-38

(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g61/escaflowne373/fighter2b1.jpg) (http://s53.photobucket.com/user/escaflowne373/media/fighter2b1.jpg.html)

Pffffff

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/ships/vanguard/Vanguard
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: DaveBB on June 15, 2015, 04:39:50 PM
Block 52 F-F16.

And for one hour I would fly against the junky old F-15 in ACM.
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Post by: Lusche on June 15, 2015, 04:52:09 PM
about any would do
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Post by: Scherf on June 15, 2015, 04:52:24 PM
Concorde, seconded.
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Post by: Nathan60 on June 15, 2015, 06:26:29 PM
X-15, A-4, 190
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: ink on June 15, 2015, 06:59:55 PM
A P36 Hawk (I think)  predecessor of the P40 IIRC

fly for just one hour? a Bf109F

The D17 staggerwing is a close second
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp5/Denzil83/Aircraft/staggerSFF.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Denzil83/media/Aircraft/staggerSFF.jpg.html)


ahhh thought it looked familiar :cheers:
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: APDrone on June 15, 2015, 07:04:28 PM
I don't know why.. but I have this craving to fly one of these:

(http://www.airmageddon.com/images/Pensacola_2004/F3F.jpg)
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: Ripsnort on June 15, 2015, 08:05:10 PM
Is it armed and I get to shoot at a target? A-10 please.  I would very much like to BRRRRT something.

If not, I'd go back to something from the war.  I'd have such a tough time choosing, and it'd depend on the day.  Today, 190D9.  Tomorrow could be P47D or Spit.

Wiley.
:rofl
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Post by: HL117 on June 16, 2015, 01:32:40 AM
If only and Hour a DR1
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Post by: artik on June 16, 2015, 02:20:44 AM
F-15A or F-15C


(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3064/3046570390_9020762d63_z.jpg?zz=1) (https://flic.kr/p/5DdteG)
Full Throttle  Israel Air Force (https://flic.kr/p/5DdteG) by xnir (https://www.flickr.com/photos/xnir/), on Flickr
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Post by: HPriller on June 16, 2015, 03:46:03 AM
Tough choices indeed.  For me it would probably about wringing the plane out in low altitude aerobatics, so jets/rockets would be out unless it was about pure acceleration/speed.  Top contenders for the aerobatics side of it would be Fokker Dr1, Bf109 (F or earlier model), FW190A.  If it was about acceleration/speed Me163, F-22 (or whatever is the highest thrust/weight modern jet) perhaps even x-44 manta.   In the end I think the Dr1 would probably win.

Not sure why anyone would want to blow an hour in a space shuttle or SR-71 those seem kinda boring honestly.
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Post by: Reaper90 on June 16, 2015, 06:25:12 AM
I'd have a hard time narrowing it down between about 25 or 30 birds, but I still think I wind up here:

(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warbirds/images/b/b6/P-40E_Military_Air_Museum_November_28,_2008.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20131128024453)
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Post by: cpxxx on June 16, 2015, 09:12:59 AM
Tough one. But as I'm actually planning to get the money together to fly a Spitfire one day. I'll leave that to one side. The F4u is up there but on the basis that only a miracle would grant me the opportunity to fly one it has to be a jet. The F16....or F18 or F15. I just can't decide. Then there's the EE Lightning or F22 or .......
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Post by: ebfd11 on June 16, 2015, 09:29:16 AM
I had the pleasure of flying in teh front seat of an OV10B while in the Marine Corps, was a blast
 (http://www.air-and-space.com/20051021%20Edwards/DSC_4277%20OV-10B%20N338RC%20BuNo%20158301%20right%20front%20m.jpg)

That thing was a BLAST... And I have a flight in a WW2 T6 trainer coming up.. cant wait for that..
(http://eaa1073.org/wp-content/gallery/airfair-20102/t6-texan-wwii-trainer.jpg)

Best part is I get to take the controls, 30 min flight and approx 10 mins of flying it myself... I promise not to LawnDart it so lets get that out of the way.

LawnDart
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Post by: 68ZooM on June 16, 2015, 10:50:32 AM
P51 or the Spit
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Post by: Bruv119 on June 16, 2015, 12:02:25 PM
Spitfire Mk IX of course!   :rock
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Post by: Guppy35 on June 16, 2015, 07:19:36 PM
Spit XII

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/41SpitXIIs.jpg)
Title: Re: You get to fly one plane for one hour.
Post by: bozon on June 17, 2015, 01:40:11 AM
Mosquito of course.

Mirage IIIc would be a close second.

There are many that could be close 3rd.
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Post by: Oldman731 on June 17, 2015, 07:21:08 AM
Which plane would you want to fly if you could get just one hour in it. (Assume you magically get the required training.)


(http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff406/Oldman731/P6E.jpg) (http://s1234.photobucket.com/user/Oldman731/media/P6E.jpg.html)
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Post by: Wmaker on June 17, 2015, 07:29:47 AM
Very very hard to pick one...

Here's one amazing aviation history thoroughbread:
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/NAJN8JTZ6myo42pquZqiCzi6o1_500.jpg)

...very very easy get oneself killed in one though. :D


I of course could name tens and tens of others as well...
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Post by: Nilsen on June 17, 2015, 07:34:56 AM
TIE fighter
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on June 17, 2015, 08:49:06 AM
The U2 ... only because of the view, otherwise a plane is a plane.
(http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/uploads/Bild83.serendipityThumb.png)
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Post by: WWhiskey on June 17, 2015, 08:59:06 AM
For an hour
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-06/D0B52998-D6B3-4260-8002-9FA5F59DC80E.png_zpsfk2jpeek.jpeg) (http://s249.photobucket.com/user/WWhiskey/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-06/D0B52998-D6B3-4260-8002-9FA5F59DC80E.png_zpsfk2jpeek.jpeg.html)

For the day
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-06/8243162B-CE1C-4BD6-94AC-A0051EEF9691.png_zpsqmou1bre.jpeg) (http://s249.photobucket.com/user/WWhiskey/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-06/8243162B-CE1C-4BD6-94AC-A0051EEF9691.png_zpsqmou1bre.jpeg.html)
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Post by: PR3D4TOR on June 17, 2015, 09:53:53 AM
I'll take Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's A380 for an hour complete with his harem. Seriously, the most fun planes to fly for an hour as a pilot are the planes most people can take for a ride regularly with only a modest investment in time and money.
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Post by: Zimme83 on June 17, 2015, 10:10:15 AM
My cessna 150...
It has been on service since october and the prop is in Germany for scheduled overhaul. I want to fly now... Even if only for an hour  :bhead
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Post by: craz07 on June 17, 2015, 10:39:39 AM
p38 only because the torque effects of the others would be way too frightening to constantly adjust for..
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Post by: DmonSlyr on June 17, 2015, 03:00:56 PM
Concorde, seconded.

My father had the rare opportunity to get to be a passenger on the concord. He flew across the United States and it took him about 2:30 hours.

He said the plane felt like it reached the top of the atmosphere and felt like he was almost in space.

It was obviously to expensive too fuel.

My plane of choice would be an F22. Ive always wondered what it would be like to take a flight in a jet.

Would love to fly a extra 300 aswell for the stunts.

In WW2 Id go with a F4U, p47, or p51. Tough choices haha
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Post by: DaveBB on June 17, 2015, 04:47:32 PM
My father had the rare opportunity to get to be a passenger on the concord. He flew across the United States and it took him about 2:30 hours.

He said the plane felt like it reached the top of the atmosphere and felt like he was almost in space.

It was obviously to expensive too fuel.

My plane of choice would be an F22. Ive always wondered what it would be like to take a flight in a jet.

Would love to fly a extra 300 aswell for the stunts.

In WW2 Id go with a F4U, p47, or p51. Tough choices haha

The Concorde never flew across the U.S.  When over the continental U.S., it had to maintain subsonic speeds.  It flew into New York and Washington D.C.
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Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on June 17, 2015, 06:58:48 PM
737-900
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Post by: BuckShot on June 18, 2015, 06:56:53 AM
The Wright Flyer
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Post by: deSelys on June 18, 2015, 10:00:10 AM
The Concorde never flew across the U.S.  When over the continental U.S., it had to maintain subsonic speeds.  It flew into New York and Washington D.C.

Concorde flew charters across the U.S. (check this page (http://www.concordesst.com/history/destinations.html), section 'charter destinations'). It flew indeed subsonic above land, but it is possible that some of the special flights were supersonic.
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Post by: DmonSlyr on June 18, 2015, 10:09:47 AM
The Concorde never flew across the U.S.  When over the continental U.S., it had to maintain subsonic speeds.  It flew into New York and Washington D.C.

I'll have to talk to him about it. I thought it was cross country but I guess I'm not 100% sure. I'll get more info about it later.
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Post by: Mister Fork on June 18, 2015, 10:56:52 AM
F-111. One hour of pure Mach 2.5 fun.
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Post by: mbailey on June 18, 2015, 06:37:37 PM
Phantom

<drops mic, walks away>