What Is The Coolest Airplane You Have Flown?

[snowman]

Cub crafters cub on floats. TONS-O-FUN.
180hp, slow flight @18-20 mph
adios
snowman

 

[VNugget]

DeHavilland DH-88 Comet
WACO ASO-9
Soon to be added: Zivko Edge 540T
And since there should be at least one entry that I have soloed (or at least been actually in command): Citabria 7KCAB. I know, not that exciting. But you can still have a ton more fun in it than the good ol' buck fitty.

 

[CSY Mon]

Airplane Envy
Hasn't everyone experienced it? You are in a C182, and keep looking over at the Mooney that is parked on the ramp. You get a Mooney and then every twin you pass catches your eye. Soon you are zinging around in a Seneca and find you can't stop staring at the King Air. The King Air, while the time you spent together was nice, seems doggy and now a Citation seems to call. Ah but everytime you are taxiing your CJ onto the exec ramp, you almost run over the marshallers because you are staring at the Lears parked across the way.
I don't think it ever ends.
I will let others point out the corollaries to other aspects of a male pilot's sad life as well.

Yeah, ya are right....Been there, envied that.

Flying private / CFI I was drooling @ the 135 guys...Once I got into 135 206/207 I drooled 402....Once there turbine.....Once turbine, drooled jet.
Etc, etc.
Once I got into jets, DC-8/73 I was in heaven 'till the firm offered me F/O 747-200...Heck, could not stand back and slow down, had to do another darn ground school and simulator to get on another heavy jet.
Did the 747 gig for many years, then lusted for the left seat and fianlly ended up there.

Now what...?

 

[PUNISHER]

Since you fellas have left out the BEST flying aircraft out there.....i will have to do it for you.........


the Pitts S2-B.......200mph inverted at 20 feet, then a -5 push to the up line......what a rush....and i get to do it all the time....when nobodys looking


anyone can fly a jet.......but only a few can fly a tailwheel!!!!!!!!! (joke fellas, dont get your wings in a fuse)

Right on, Although climbing 10,000 fpm in the LR24 is also a ton of fun.

 

[minitour]

The Duchess!

haha...I'm such a dork...

It was nice knowing I could limp home farther on one in the Duchess than I can on 0 in the 172...so I guess that makes it cool.

-mini

 

[crash-proof]

DeHavilland DH-88 Comet
WACO ASO-9
Soon to be added: Zivko Edge 540T
And since there should be at least one entry that I have soloed (or at least been actually in command): Citabria 7KCAB. I know, not that exciting. But you can still have a ton more fun in it than the good ol' buck fitty.

Waaaaiiiittt a second there....you rode the COMET? I know there was a replica built about 10 years ago, was that the one? How did you manage that ride? *whiney voice* I wanna go tooooooooooo!!!

Oh, my best ride? Hmmm...Quicksilver ultrlight, skimming over the beach in Rio de Janeiro, couple years back. I also flew gliders a lot, that was fun.

 

[727gm]

The glorious BE-18T Twin Beech!

(Hamilton Westwind III - a tailwheel PT6 conversion)

Starts like a vacuum cleaner, (and if it starts, you're goin' flyin') without the filth, pulling through the props, the mag checks, carb ice, vibration, wearing out brakes, and, for you PT6 guys: without the secondary low pitch stop and overspeed governor checks (pesky items left uninstalled for dispatch reliability, {but with a beta light} thank you American Turbine Engine Co.) Fast - for an 18, with reverse, and twist-of-the-wrist beta.

What a machine!

B-727 & DC-3 close runners-up.

 

[LAZYB]

Yeah, that sounds...

about right, except I like the fuel capacity of the "five-seven" a lot more.

757-200 & Lear 25.

 

[UnAnswerd]

Cessna 150. Kickass!!!

 

[mudkow60]

UH-3H Seaking