Obscure planes you've flown?

[Typhoon1244]

I've got time in Wonder Womans Glass jet!!!

It wasn't glass, it was invisible, silly! It had to have that white outline, though, because a woman with big yabos in a red-white-and-blue bikini whistling along at .86 would have looked strange.

 

[de727ups]

Convair 640

Was a Convair 440 with Rolls Royce Dart engines

 

[ShawnC]

Aerospatile Epsilon, French Primary trainer, pretty much a T-34.

Pilatus PC-3, piston little brother of the T-6A.

 

[crash-proof]

WrightAvia -

Re Your avatar....

ROFL LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[crash-proof]

Evangel 4500 N4505L, N4502L,N4501L

You must be one the few to fly one of these.... i read an article on the net about this plane jungle-flyin in colombia and the andes. I't's STOL capability is not unlike the Helio's. Must have been fun flyin the beast. Do they have any left?

 

[ClearRight]

I saw an Angel parked in Dillingham, Alaska about 5 years ago. . .


I've flown a Hamilton Westwind Beech 18: PT-6-20s, extended nose, still a tail dragger. Looks like a big mosquito! Also flown a Stinson 108 Voyager with tundra tires, 210hp Continental, constant speed prop, windows all around- we call it the "Black Hawk!" Fun, fun airplane! I've got a few hours in a trike Helio. Odd looking airplane with a nose wheel!

 

[crash-proof]

D@amn! Those are some fun pics from Alaska. My ol man was part owner of a floating Norseman (Otter lookalike) that he'd take out to remote lakes near Vancouver with friends and camp out and fish. I wish i had those pics on the net.

Here's the "oficial" homepage for the Helio courier.

http://www.stolaircraft.com

 

[skyking1976]

I have ridden in some strange birds....

BAe ATP - Saab 340 on steroids

Brittan Norman Trislander - Puerto Rican DC-10

Let 410 - Polish Dornier 328

Partenavia Spartacus - Twin Otter with very little self esteem

PT-6 converted DC-3 - Rest in peace, Warren Basler

 

[TurboS7]

Wow...now that website made me want to cry. I grew up in Colombia where my dad was a flight dispatcher with JAARS. We had 3 Helio's, 1 Evangel, and on DC-3. Nice pictures, and the pilots that they talk about are real pilots with real hearts. I still still close my eyes and hear the GO-470 grinding away as a 391 staggers off a jungle strip. In the jungle you can hear the airplane coming when it is 20 miles away. Pretty neat.

 

[GumbyDarnit]

Does the cockroach count? (F-117A) 55 built, 4 crashed, 1 shot down, less than 700 pilots.

 

[A Squared]

Do they have any left?

Yeah, I know a guy who owns one. I believe that it is the same airplane that "ClearRight" saw in Dillingham. I first saw that airplane in Pilot Point, Alaska about 15 years ago. This same guy also owns a Found Centinnial.

Other obscure aircraft I've flown:

Gavilan 358 (8 place recip utility aircraft made in Columbia)

Found Bushhawk (updated brother of the above mentioned Centennial)

Gippsland AirVan (8 place recip utility aircraft made in Australia)

 

[crash-proof]

I remember anothe one...

I flew (as pax) on the EAA Ford Trimotor at Sun n Fun. And my camcorder decided to go south just before I got onboard.

That was unforgetable. Believe it or not, they have a newer version of the trimotor called the bushmaster, I think two are left flying. Beautiful bird, I would give my left nut to own one.

http://irish5string.homestead.com/page3.html

 

[A Squared]

I remember anothe one...

Believe it or not, they have a newer version of the trimotor called the bushmaster, I think two are left flying.

Yep, a guy who is a frequent flyer on our jumpseat used to fly a Bushmaster out of Bethel, Alaska in the 1970's

 

[VNugget]

Once I was $400 away from getting a ride on the Collings Foundation B-17......

 

[skypine69]

Tiger Moth....fun plane, low and slow!

 

[empenage]

B-25...Miss Hap. It shook so much the video came out all messed up. The brakes suck on the B-25 but talk about smoke and noise! Very small cockpit.

The Brezy comes to mind too. Gotta love the QB's.

 

[Jet_Dreamer]

wasted state- multi pass!

 

[Kingairrick]

From the logbook...

3.3 hours in a Nomad N24A, basically an austrailian shorts 330 with alison 250 jetranger engines turned sidways. Still a few in SRQ at Dolphin

 

[avbug]

PB4Y-2...4, left none flying.

Right now possibly one of the most useless type ratings one can have.

 

[Kingairrick]

I thought the Hawker 1000 was the most usless type rating. I stand corrected.