privately owned supersonic aircraft

[saddamsnightmare]

January 15th, 2010.

If I could qualify for a pilot's license (which, for various reasons...I can't), for me it would be a tossup between a DC-3/C-47 restored as a AC-47 and painted for "puff the magic dragon", or a AD Skyraider done as a "Spad"..... If I hit the powerball (which ain't gonna happen) I would consider an A-10 if I had to have a jet....

Cheers,

Kyle F. McGrogan

 

[Coal Cracker]

I call dibs on the first privately owned SR-71 Blackbird

I get second dibs, I can haul from any site, and tow it away with the deuce

 

[Coal Cracker]

Man I love this site, Trucks, Trains, Planes, I'm in heaven!!!

 

[mutt_kahuna]

Here ya go Stampy...I love the WWII iron too!...for the price of the SU-27,a person can buy a P-51,F8F AND a wildcat!
www.courtesyaircraft.com
click on inventory ....everything from a B-25 to a T-2B buckeye jet trainer

 

[monkster]

WOW ........... Snort, dribble, dribble , dribble, ......... just walk away, just walk away.

 

[unclemikey]

You have to know, if you had that kind of money, you would just have to have one. But I have to go with Stampy on this one, I like prop and round motors!
Mods would be good.....how about a 4360 in a Staggerwing!

(P.S. Did anyone note that 39 Aeronca Military L-3F Chief on E-Bay just the other day........What a deal for $13,000)

 

[m16ty]

When people started talking about P-51s it reminded me of a story I heard.

We do alot of work at a place called Vought Aircraft in Nashville,TN. They make wings only now and they've changed names several times over the years but durring WWII they built P-51s.

Last year they were cleaning the place up and scrapping a bunch of stuff. We hauled most of it from there. The guy we were working for was wanting them to clean up an overgrown area in the back of the property. He ran it by his boss and he said "no way" and then told him what was in there.

This guy said that when WWII was over they had several completed planes and the military canceled the contract. With nothing to do with all all the P-51s and scrap not worth anything they just pushed them into a ravine on the back of the property (guy said he's seen old pics of this). Over the years they kept dumping stuff back there untill the ravine was full.

He said several people that work there have wanted to dig the planes up over the years but there has been alot of stuff dumped in there over the years and they didn't want to dig in there and open up an enviromental nightmare.

You bring a shovel and I'll show you the spot but you'll have to climb the fence and be on your own .



On a related note, When we were doing all the scrapping there someone laid the jigs to build the C-130 wings in a room where we were told to scrap everything in there(they have the contact to build replacement C-130 wings). I did think it odd that they had stamped on them "property of US Air Force" but I didn't know what they were and we were told to scrap everything in the room.

About a week later I got a call from the guy we were working for and he was all excited. They couldn't find the jigs and after he described them to me I told him where they were .

It's funny to see guys in suits climbing around in scrap plies at the scrap yard looking for the jigs. There was a big stink over it and I don't think they ever found the jigs.

They said they thought that may be the only set left so I may have single handedly sent the C-130 into early retirement.

 

[unclemikey]

M16TY: Get a line off to The Confederate Air Force, the will take care of the problem for you, and you will be a Colonel.

 

[mdmorgan]

Ah, an educated consumer! The D model is truly the only way to fly-the upgraded engines and all the upgraded avionics to go with them.

Nothing compares to standing 20ft away from one while being launched off a carrier, the rumble feels like it messes with your heart beat.

 

[67X]

My favs are the A-10 Thunderbolt II in service from 1977 and slated for decommission in 2028! and B-17 Flying Fortress. If your ever in the Washington DC area dont forget to visit the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Just some of the aircraft they have are Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Boeing Dash 80, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay; and the deHavilland Chipmunk aerobatic airplane and the Space Shuttle Enterprise. You can get close enough to most of these aircraft to almost touch them.
And dont forget while your out there please stop at the Arlington National Cemetary and Vietnam Mememorial to pay your respects to the real heros who gave eveything to keep us a free people.

 

[Avn-Tech]

UncleMikey,

You get the Stagerwing, I have an overhauled R4360-20 in a can. (also a J-47, in a can).

Laterrrrr
Avn-Tech

 

[alphadeltaromeo]

Wonder is Bjorn's home made bio brew would power them

 

[TigerHawk]

My wife says WE NEED 2! One for each of us! Thats a good women!

 

[unclemikey]

TigerHawk............You got that right !, after all, you got one.

 

[waayfast]

Supersonic A/C= Question:"what are you going to do with that?"
Answer:"don't really know but what ever it is ,we'll do it in a hurry!"

 

[SETOYOTA]

here is the f104 demo team

Starfighters F-104 Demo Team - Home

 

[mutt_kahuna]

supersonic aircraft

Supersonic A/C= Question:"what are you going to do with that?"
Answer:"don't really know but what ever it is ,we'll do it in a hurry!"

With the SU-27's top speed at around mach 2.35 that's for sure!..in fact these are the only a/c I could find that had a higher top speed then the SU-27
Aurora? mach ??++
SR-71 mach 3+++
mig 31 mach 2.8
mig 25 mach 2.8
F-15c mach 2.5+
F-111f mach 2.5

also figured that it would cost apx $8200 just to fill its internal tanks!..lord knows what its burn rate is....Hmmm wonder if it will burn WMO?

 

[Wrench Wench]

N345BG North American TB-25N

*contented sigh*

That reminds me of one of my fave romantic comedy movies. Anyone remember Always? Except Pete flew a B-26 (actually A-26), not a TB-25, but still, it'd be a similar feel. If I were to largely exhaust my obsession with green iron and step out into the shiny aluminum that flies, that is the kind I'd get.

Lots of opportunities to strafe things with machineguns too.

 

[Malyutkaman]

Buy my MiG-17 PLEASE!!!! (alot cheaper than those SU-27s)
I long for the day when I ruled my obsessions. Now they rule me. Even sitting in a dry hangar all this stuff needs constant maintenance. However looking down the barrels of those big guns does motivate me to press on, NO, MUST SELL, but on the other hand.......

 

[srodocker]

malyutkaman can i come see your mig?