If you could jump in the Wayback Machine

[Averageman]

And fly any aircraft, which would it be?

[Scrubber3]

I had a transformers kite as a kid. I'd like to have that one back.

But I wouldn't mind a DC-3

[Det-Sog]

OK... Technically this is an aircraft. The original one even had ejection seats. Took a real pilot. You only had ONE chance to get the landing right.



If that does not count, this one.

[SteyrAUG]

Having grown up watching Baa Baa Black Sheep, I'm going with Det-Sog and picking the F4U Corsair.

From everything I've read it's a little tricky to land, but that would my pick.

[Delta-3]

No question...The Corsair! Specifically the F4U-1 C with the 4 20mm cannons. Although, the Stuka is a close second.

[Business_Casual]

Bf109 Gustav

[SteyrAUG]

No question...The Corsair! Specifically the F4U-1 C with the 4 20mm cannons. Although, the Stuka is a close second.

Much as the Stuka checks off my WWII plane fetish, I don't think it's something I'd want to point at the ground and gun it. I have long since lost my "need for speed" and now view most aircraft as something mechanical with a high probability of failing and falling out of the sky. I don't have a phobia of flying but I do recognize Vegas odds.

I know some "go jets" guys and I've learned enough to know that ain't me. The guys doing carrier landings at night during Gulf War I...jesus christ.

I do think it would be kinda cool to jump a Marine Harrier, but I'm worried I might park it in the ditch.

[ABNAK]

Having grown up watching Baa Baa Black Sheep, I'm going with Det-Sog and picking the F4U Corsair.

From everything I've read it's a little tricky to land, but that would my pick.

I gotta definitely say that would be near the top of the list. Maybe a P-51 Mustang or an F4F Wildcat (yeah, the Wildcat was an early-war staple but it has always intrigued me).

Read where on the Wildcat you had to manually crank up your landing gear; they went into the fuselage, not the wings like the later Hellcat and most other aircraft.

My wife and I met a couple when we were vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands one time. They were older than us, but we hit it off talking about WWII aircraft. The guy was impressed I knew so much about them (I was a WWII nerd growing up). Turns out they were pretty well-off; he owned some kind of factory somewhere. He also owned a P-51 Mustang! He told me that when he was learning to fly it the guy teaching him warned him that the engine was so powerful that you had to counter the torque/rotation of the prop by riding the stick and/or one of the pedals (I don't recall which) or it could flip upside down on you.

[LoboTBL]

I'd want to go all the way back and fly the Wright Brothers' airplane and do it where they did it.

[SteyrAUG]

I gotta definitely say that would be near the top of the list. Maybe a P-51 Mustang or an F4F Wildcat (yeah, the Wildcat was an early-war staple but it has always intrigued me).

Read where on the Wildcat you had to manually crank up your landing gear; they went into the fuselage, not the wings like the later Hellcat and most other aircraft.

My wife and I met a couple when we were vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands one time. They were older than us, but we hit it off talking about WWII aircraft. The guy was impressed I knew so much about them (I was a WWII nerd growing up). Turns out they were pretty well-off; he owned some kind of factory somewhere. He also owned a P-51 Mustang! He told me that when he was learning to fly it the guy teaching him warned him that the engine was so powerful that you had to counter the torque/rotation of the prop by riding the stick and/or one of the pedals (I don't recall which) or it could flip upside down on you.

I could probably add most WWII aircraft to the list if given the opportunity. The Supermarine Spitfire is another that grabs me for whatever reason.



I'd also love to take a spin in a Mitsubishi A6M just to see what the hype was all about but there is only one "all original" survivor and it's in a museum.

Along those lines it sounds like I'd really enjoy the Planes of Fame museum but I don't see myself being in CA any time soon.