We build them...ever think about flying them?

We know 'em, we love 'em, and we build 'em, but if you could grab the stick and throttle of ANY aircraft for an hour, what would it be? Tough choice, but I’d love to strap on a Mustang and take it for a ride!

MMM Mustang! Drool, drool! Just to start up a RR Merlin would be a thrill! That, or any hose-nose with a PW 2800! But then, who wouldn’t want to bore holes in the sky on top of a J-79…ok, make it two J-79’s in an F-4! Too many choices…brain hurt!

There are three flyable P-47 Thunderbolts within easy driving distance of where I live. Every time I see one of them at a show, I just envy the hell out of the guy who is flying it. Closest I will ever get is “Jane’s WW2 Fighters” I’m afraid.

Jim

OOOWWWW!!! Brain hurts - - tooooo many choices. P-51, A-4, F-15, X-15, Space Shuttle, Spitfire, Mosquito, …something fast with the ability to really kick you back into the seat with the g forces…

Tree

Oh yes, the Space Shuttle, please!

I suppose an X-wing fighter from Star Wars is a bit too much to ask, eh?

P-38, for sure!

I’ve been lucky. I was an air crew member on the T-33A and TF-102A. I also got to fly several times in the F-4D and E. I also got several flights in the T-39 in the right seat. That is a great acft to fly. I was able to HOTAS on most of the aircraft I have flown in. With over 400 hours of flying I never got sick.

I also have my private pilots certificate and just recently broke the 1,000 hour mark.

Actually… An A1 spad with minigun pods… Ehm… Actually, anything that has miniguns bolted to it…

I would love to fly a P-51 or a P-40. I would just like to experience what the heroes from WW2 did.

An F4-U Corsair, without a doubt. Second choice: P-38 Lightning.

P-39 Airacobra for sure, close second, P-51D
Lee

An A-10 and something to shoot at…

Easy choice…An F-15E [:D]

Second choice would be an AC-130 in a left-hand circle over an anti-gun rally. [}:)] [:p][:D]

Mike

Do-335,P-63,Ki-84

Oh, the choices… SR-71 would be just TOO cool, or maybe the X-27. Of course, if anything were possible, I’d take the Bell X-1 out for a spin, but last I checked my name isn’t Chuck.

I definitely would choose F-14A Tomcat from VF-143 (Pukin’ Dogs) or F-14D Tomcat from VF-31 (Tomcatters)… To be able to go subsonic and still hunt down things, I would wisely spend the hour hunting down Osama bin Laden and his idiotic friends. Imagine all those arsenals at your hand… it’d be a leisure flight, swooping below flight deck and viewing the action upclose watching those bullets and missles hit the targets right in the MIDDLE!!! Just cant beat that… A guy can only dream… Oh well, only if I wasnt born deaf, otherwise I would be flying F-14’s for real or be in the SEALs… Guess it was in God’s plans for me to just be a law-abiding citizen of the United States.

I’ve kinda lucked out in this catagory… I got to ride in a B-17 a few years back when I was a volunteer at the museum at March AFB, CA. Also, being a big fan of airplanes with red stars, I got to fly an An-2 and a Yak-52 on my first trip to Russia. As for that “dream flight” - Any member of the Su-27 family would do very well indeed!

My Dad was a P-47 pilot in the Pacific, so of course, I’d love to get my hands on a jug. (Hey! Clean up your minds there!)

I work as a Flight Test Engineer, and I’m currently writing this post from a hut on a dispersal in the middle of RAF Waddington in England (F-15Es, Tornado F3s, Harrier GR7s and E3 AWACs are the local specialities)!

If I had to choose one aircraft for a joyride it would have to be the English Electric Lightning!

There’s a company offering joyrides in South Africa on two seater Lightnings and Buccaneers.