Pechs1 wrote:
John- Wonder if I could find a nice low time F-8H with a J-57P420? A very
sweet
machine if you avoided boats and short runways. BRBR

Great question to the group. If $ was no object, what A/C that you have
actually flown would you like to own? Just for the fun of flying it again, not
considering spares, parts availability, ease or diffuculty of maintaning,
etc...

I loved the Buckeye for its roominesss, tumblability, and low parts
count...nothing finer than a VFR day spent knocking off an OCF-3
followed by looping around clouds in the Chase MOA. This probably says
more about the lack of interesting planes I flew than anything else. Now
if it had a 1:1 thrust ratio...

But my purest aviation experiences have been in civilian gliders, oddly
enough. Roaring along in ridge lift, spiralling in a thermal, or taking
an elevator in wave have been the most pure flying experiences I've had.
Just me and my glass ship, in a reclining seat surrounded by plexiglas.