Jet Fantasy Warbirds

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:18:19 -0500, Peter Kemp
peter_n_kempathotmaildotcom@ wrote:

On or about Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:37:52 GMT, "Matt Wiser"
allegedly uttered:

Anyone have a favorite or favorites
Jet warbird(s) they'd like to have? Even if it's only a fantasy? Here's my
choices in no order of preference:

1)F-4E
[snip]
11)A-10
12)SR-71 (couldn't resist this one)

15)F-86

Some overlap here, I see. Except for the first four, not at:

1. F-4E
2. F-15
3. F-104
4. SR-71
5. F-18
6. A-10
7. F-16
8. F-14
9. Harrier (or Sea Harrier or AV-8)
10. V-22 (stretching "jet" to turboprop)
11. Folland Gnat
12. F-105
13. F-86
14. MiG-17
15. MiG-25
16. B-70 (or XB-70)
17. B-52
18. B-58
19. A-4
20. F-8

Mind you, this has to be a fantasy. I couldn't even afford the fuel
for most of these.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

F-5E
F-8
MiG-21
F-104

-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

In article , Mary Shafer
writes
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:18:19 -0500, Peter Kemp
peter_n_kempathotmaildotcom@ wrote:

On or about Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:37:52 GMT, "Matt Wiser"
allegedly uttered:

Anyone have a favorite or favorites
Jet warbird(s) they'd like to have? Even if it's only a fantasy? Here's my
choices in no order of preference:

1)F-4E
[snip]
11)A-10
12)SR-71 (couldn't resist this one)

15)F-86

Some overlap here, I see. Except for the first four, not at:

1. F-4E
2. F-15
3. F-104
4. SR-71
5. F-18
6. A-10
7. F-16
8. F-14
9. Harrier (or Sea Harrier or AV-8)
10. V-22 (stretching "jet" to turboprop)
11. Folland Gnat
12. F-105
13. F-86
14. MiG-17
15. MiG-25
16. B-70 (or XB-70)
17. B-52
18. B-58
19. A-4
20. F-8

Mind you, this has to be a fantasy. I couldn't even afford the fuel
for most of these.

Mary

Surely any list like this can't leave out the two best looking of all:
the Hawker Sea Hawk and Hawker Hunter (which Peter Kemp has already
mentioned).
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:53:08 +0000, Peter Twydell
wrote:

In article , Mary Shafer
writes

Some overlap here, I see. Except for the first four, not at:

1. F-4E
2. F-15
3. F-104
4. SR-71
5. F-18
6. A-10
7. F-16
8. F-14
9. Harrier (or Sea Harrier or AV-8)
10. V-22 (stretching "jet" to turboprop)
11. Folland Gnat
12. F-105
13. F-86
14. MiG-17
15. MiG-25
16. B-70 (or XB-70)
17. B-52
18. B-58
19. A-4
20. F-8

Mind you, this has to be a fantasy. I couldn't even afford the fuel
for most of these.

Surely any list like this can't leave out the two best looking of all:
the Hawker Sea Hawk and Hawker Hunter (which Peter Kemp has already
mentioned).

Hawker makes good-looking aircraft, don't they? I left out the
Swedish aircraft, too.

By the time I get all the interesting and good-looking airplanes
listed, I've got every military jet ever flown. OK, I admit it. I
like them all. I'd take any one of them in a heartbeat. Even deltas
like the F-102 and the Mirages.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:53:08 +0000, Peter Twydell
wrote:

In article , Mary Shafer
writes

Some overlap here, I see. Except for the first four, not at:

1. F-4E
2. F-15
3. F-104
4. SR-71
5. F-18
6. A-10
7. F-16
8. F-14
9. Harrier (or Sea Harrier or AV-8)
10. V-22 (stretching "jet" to turboprop)
11. Folland Gnat
12. F-105
13. F-86
14. MiG-17
15. MiG-25
16. B-70 (or XB-70)
17. B-52
18. B-58
19. A-4
20. F-8

Mind you, this has to be a fantasy. I couldn't even afford the fuel
for most of these.

Surely any list like this can't leave out the two best looking of all:
the Hawker Sea Hawk and Hawker Hunter (which Peter Kemp has already
mentioned).

Hawker makes good-looking aircraft, don't they? I left out the
Swedish aircraft, too.

By the time I get all the interesting and good-looking airplanes
listed, I've got every military jet ever flown. OK, I admit it. I
like them all. I'd take any one of them in a heartbeat. Even deltas
like the F-102 and the Mirages.

I also like the buccaneer
viggen
sea vixen
avro arrow
and tho it isn't a fighter a vulcan



cry havoc and unleash the hamsters of war

I'll take

Seriously cool:

F-104
F-106
FA-18

Really fun:
F-16

Really fun and least likely to kill me:
F-5/T-38

-- Charlie Springer

"Bjørnar Bolsøy" wrote in
:
"Matt Wiser" wrote in
news:3fb1029e$1@bg2.:

Anyone have a favorite or favorites
Jet warbird(s) they'd like to have? Even if it's only a fantasy?
Here's my choices in no order of preference:

1)F-4E
2)A-6E
3)A-4 (any variant)
4)A-7D/E
5)F-14
6)MiG-29
7)Su-22M
8)Jaguar
9)AV-8B
10)F-105D
11)A-10
12)SR-71 (couldn't resist this one)

Any others?

F-16
T-38/F-5
T-45/Hawk
S-27/35

I seem to have forgotten another beautiful aircraft:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/267123/L/



Regards...

"Luke" wrote in message ...
"Matt Wiser" wrote in message
news:3fb1029e$1@bg2....

Anyone have a favorite or favorites
Jet warbird(s) they'd like to have? Even if it's only a fantasy? Here's my
choices in no order of preference:


snip for brevity

Well as long as we are doing this for fun . . . I want a two seater so
I can take one of the kids to Oshkosh, so my choices a

1. The TF-8 "Twosader" (two seat F-8 Crusader). Sadly, the single
example was written off many many years ago.

2. SK-37 trainer version of the Viggen. Replace the radar and fire
control with a weather set and leave room for luggage, tents, sleeping
bags,camping chairs, with room left over for a few ice coolers.
Update the panel with some modern civil avionics to reduce the weeping
when work was needed.

And if it could be done, update the engine with a later model of the
JT8D (IIRC, the Viggen powerplant design began with an early JT8D and
added an afterburner). I'm sure the road to the orginal engine design
was paved in a significant quantity of anguish and sweat and that this
would be no easier, but hey, I got to check reality at the door.

I may not be able to out-turn or out-run everyone else, but I would
probably take at least an honorable mention for racket on takeoff or
landing.

that was fun . . .

John

1) F104B 56-310 with its J79-19 engine and tip tanks. If I couldn't
afford fuel etc I'd just wash and wax it once a week while it sat in
my driveway. And give it a pat every day.
2) PBY5A with 3! P&W PT6 engines. Go-anywhere bird.
3) TF102A with a JT8D-17 engine. (Great and unique XC bird!)
4) Mr. Mulligan - yes, the DGA8A was a warbird! Real style.
5) Beech D17S, also a warbird. More style.
6) Lockheed L1011-500 (ex RAF warbird!)
7) Ju87 with sirens - just for the hell of it.
8) Klingon 'Bird of Prey' - to go check out the galaxy.
Walt BJ

(WaltBJ) wrote:

8) Klingon 'Bird of Prey' - to go check out the galaxy.
Walt BJ

Check out the stealth eh?...wonder how thick the RAM coating was
on THAT machine?
--

-Gord.