Your favorite airplanes

[Kaman]

Hi Guys and Gals,
Here goes with my list (not in any particular order or precedence):

1. Cessna 152: First airplane I ever flew
2. Cessna 172: Airplane that I solo'd in
3. Kaman SH-2F: Two deployments and 1600 hours as a Sensor operator and aircraft that qualified me as a Naval Aircrewman
4. Boeing 727: The DC-3 of my era, graceful and beautiful.
5. Consolidated B-24: My Dad flew 25 missions in WWII in the Pacific theater in this airplane.
6. Grumman SA-16: My Dad's mount in Korea War. His personal favorite.
7. Douglas DC-3: Spent some of my youth servicing and loading them, sister flew as a flight attendant.
8. Convair 580: Nothing but raw horsepower, a pilot's airplane
9. Convair F-106: THE ultimate manned interceptor, looked like it was going Mach 2 sitting on the ramp
10. Sikorsky SH-60/HH-60, another 2500 hours and 4 deployments. Your's truly has the dubious distinction of being in the crew of the first SH-60F Class A mishap

Regards,

 

[banned username 2]

What's the fascination with the Twin Otter? I don't get it, I must be doing something wrong. Awesome shortfield plane yeah, but it flies like a truck, at least with the -20 engines. I've never had a chance to fly the Super-Otter!

Now is the "Super-Otter" known as the "Swotter" as opposed to the regular Twin Otter being known as the "Twotter"?

 

[Typhoon1244]

3. Shuttle Columbia, Discovery, Atlantis, or Endeavour... doesn't matter which!

You airline guys: you know how all companies have aircraft within their fleets that have less-than-wonderful reputations? Maybe ship 251 has chronic autopliot queertrons, or maybe ship 820's radar can be erratic.

Do you suppose NASA has this problem too? Do astronauts ever say things like, "aw, not Discovery again!"

 

[dav8or]

1)Your favorite plane that you HAVE flown

2)Your favorite plane that you COULD one day, realistically fly

3)Your favorite dream plane, that you probably wont get to fly


1. PC-12 (ultamate single engine)

2. My RV-8 (I will finish it one day)

3. ME 262 ( got to be the coolest looking plane from WWII)

 

[TurboS7]

1)Favorite airplane that have flown.....
1)single-C-185,Super Cub
2)twin-BE-18
3)jet-LR-24B straight wing

2)B-757,B-747-400,B-777
3)F-15,F-4 on and off a carrier at night

 

[bigD]

Whatever plane I'm flying that day becomes my favorite airplane!

But of what I've really flown: A36 or BE58. I love the way the 182 handles too.

What I may fly one day: Beech Duke and Citation X.

What I'll never fly: P-38 Lightning.

 

[Salty Dog]

Fave have flown: T-6 Texan
Fave will fly: F-4U Corsair
Fave never will: X-15.

The shuttles are big & all, but actually throttling a rocket engine by hand and flying it where you point the nose - both in space and the atmosphere - is REAL flying in the one true aerospace craft. I've touched them both and am still working out a way to make enough money to borrow them for a weekend or two. Until I figure it out, I guess it'll stay on my "never will" list!

 

[Eagleflip]

Greatest aircraft ever flown: Hands down--the F-15C. 550 kts at 500 feet, looking for bad guys, trying not to hit the ground, checking six, trying not to hit the ground, oh dark thirty over bad guy land watching red tracers, trying not to soil my armor...as my Bone friend said previously, "Yeowsa!"

Greatest aircraft I may still yet get to fly: the Yak 9, Russia's answer to the P-51.

Greatest aircraft that I won't get to fly: the SR-71.

 

[Caveman]

Favorite flown: Seminole

Favorite hope to fly: 757

Favorite but no chance: SR71

 

[BE58 Driver]

Favorite: BE-58

Want to fly: CRJ-200 to start, then 757

Won't get to fly: DC-3, Concord

 

[WIDGETBOY]

Flown-CE-208


Will fly- B-757


Wish could fly- F-15

 

[TDTURBO]

LancairIVP

P-51D

 

[bobbysamd]

Favorite airplanes

1. CE-550 Citation during my Citation type ride. As easy to land as any prop Cessna lightplane.

2. Don't know. I don't know if or when I'll get back to flying. For the purpose of this discussion, though, probably something like a 172 or Archer. Seminole for a twin.

3. tie between DC-3 and Connie.

 

[dsee8driver]

mmmmm

1. DC8-73 (Of all the series I've flown this one takes it so far)

2. B747-*00

3. SR71

 

[EOpilot]

1) Boeing 727. I've flown very few types, but I'm glad I got to know this one while it was still around. I'm gonna miss her.

2) Boeing 777. (Once a Boeing lover, always a Boeing lover.)

3) Lockheed 1049 Super Constellation . That has got to be the most beautiful transport aircraft I've ever seen. I dream about hearing those turbo-compound Wright Cyclones at full power. My dream is to fly all my family and friends on a vacation in the islands aboard one of these beauties. (I'd rather take them on a 1649, but I'm not sure there's still an example of one of those still around.)

 

[nimtz]

1. ERJ-145
2. 767-300
3. SBD-3 Dauntless Dive Bomber: few people realize that this airplane tipped the balance of history in June 1942

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

1. BE-18
2. Love to fly a Lear, Citation X, Falcon, Hawker or Gulfstream someday.......
3. Doubt I'd ever get a shot at a P-38, P-51, Corsair, Mitchell B-25 or Heavy bomber like the 24 or 17. Met a number of 24 pilots and they all seemed to enjoy flying it even though a dump truck looks like it is more maneuverable.