Your dream plane to fly?

[Dash-Ate]

Seriously, do I have to point out how childish that post was??????
Bandaid

[Changes in Latitudes]

I simply ask myself, what would Jimmy Buffett do?

[MartinB]

G550

[P-40]

I really hated the DA-20 Plastic Lawn Dart

Out of curiosity, why ? I quite like flying the DA-20. Much more fun than a 172 or pretty much any other Spam Can that is used for training. The U.S. Air Force used the 20 for quite a few years in Colorado Springs.

[Old Dog Flying]

P-40: I found the DA-20 to be uncomfortable and after flying my AA1A, the Da-20 had all the responce of a slug.

I was given a checkout in one by a young female instructor who really did not like spins or even steep turns and after flying the Katana I briefed her on the Grumman then put her into the left seat. She promptly forgot the briefing and tried yanking the Grumman into the air just the way she did it in the PlBarneyastic Lawn Dart. Had these old reflexes not been up to par the aircraft would have been totalled on take-off.
In the practice area she could not do a figure 8 and her bank angle never got near 40 degrees because she was convinced that anything more and the little flying beer can would fall out of the sky. The roll rate scared her and she could not hold alt within 200 feet on a 360. Her approach and landing was dangerous...and this was a new instructor. The Katana may be a fair trainer but it just did not feel right to me.

Barney

[akoch]

Looks like you can't make up your mind wether you did not like the instructor or the airplane.

I for one liked flying with her. As well as flying that airplane. Seldom people are born 20,000-hour captains, most simply practice and learn. When I was learning this lady let me fly the Katana at 25 knots gusting 32, and 70-degree x-wind. She went up with me and did the safety pilot thing. Perhaps it comes with experience. The rest of the schools felt they were better off on the ground, I was alone in the circuit for an hour and a half.

[short bus]

SR71

[JDW]

and tried yanking the Grumman into the air just the way she did it in the PlBarneyastic Lawn Dart

i find the katana requires much less backpressure than almost anything on takeoff, it usually flies off at when its ready with almost no input! definitely far less than any cessna. sounds like your instructor may have been a bit nervous but id hesitate to blame the plane

[lionheart27]

I would say Concorde but I've always wanted to fly the 757

[Moose47]

G'day

(2) de Havilland Mosquito

(2) Avro Lancaster

(3) DC-3 / C-47

Cheers...Chris

[linecrew]

Seriously, do I have to point out how childish that post was??????
Bandaid

This post reminds me of that song... "Every party has a pooper, that's why I invited you. Party pooper, party pooper."

Where's you're sense of humour man?! I'm just happy to see that nobody is telling anyone else how much they hate their opinion on [insert any aviation topic here].

[Pigeon91]

I love round engines. Has to be the dc-6 or the dc-3

[trampbike]

I choose this big glider:






EDIT: well not THAT specific aircraft thought...

[old_man]

How about some rotary love.

[skat0r]

[TG]

Here is skat0r, about to dogfight a Mirage 2000 on board of his "Cricri"

[FenderManDan]

This


Or this

[RadicalRadial]

Spartan 7W Executive.
Only 9 left on planet earth

[Siddley Hawker]

RadicalRadial that would have been my second choice after the Mallard. Probably the second or third best looking airplane ever built after - pick one - the Mallard, Staggerwing Beech, the L1649 and the Spit.

There was supposed to be a handful of those parked in a hangar in Saudi Arabia somewhere, that had been ordered by one of the Princes, but were never flown.

[P-40]

P-40: I found the DA-20 to be uncomfortable and after flying my AA1A, the Da-20 had all the responce of a slug.

I was given a checkout in one by a young female instructor who really did not like spins or even steep turns and after flying the Katana I briefed her on the Grumman then put her into the left seat. She promptly forgot the briefing and tried yanking the Grumman into the air just the way she did it in the PlBarneyastic Lawn Dart. Had these old reflexes not been up to par the aircraft would have been totalled on take-off.
In the practice area she could not do a figure 8 and her bank angle never got near 40 degrees because she was convinced that anything more and the little flying beer can would fall out of the sky. The roll rate scared her and she could not hold alt within 200 feet on a 360. Her approach and landing was dangerous...and this was a new instructor. The Katana may be a fair trainer but it just did not feel right to me.

Barney

Interesting take on the 20. I do find my lower back gets sore on longer flights, the seats are not ideal and you are pretty cozy with anyone seated next to you. The majority of my last 100 hours were in a 1995 Super D. While certainly not as responsive as the Decathlon, the Diamond is far more fun than a 172/182 which I also fly regularly.

I have always admired the entire AA lineage, have never had a chance to fly one however.

Sounds like your instructor needed some instruction . The DA-20 spins quite well.

[AuxBatOn]

And I ride her everyday.

[x-wind]

Really: Luscombe 8

Fantasy: Avro Arrow & proof of concept hydrogen fuel cell powered machine ... around the world.

Edit: Bf-109 too

[Skyhunter]

F-22 Raptor, really see how it climbs, vertical full Afterburner

[Colonel Sanders]

Bf-109

Last I heard one of the very few flying -109 in the world
lives in Canada. I know two guys that have flown it. Horrible
ground handling, but if you play your cards right, you
could fly it, too!

PS That particular -109 has quite a combat history.

[DHC-1 Jockey]

Last I heard one of the very few flying -109 in the world
lives in Canada.

It lives in Niagara Falls as CF-EML and I believe is the only German-built 109 flying with the original Daimler Benz engine. All the other 109's out there were license built in Spain.