How do you keep the list down to just 5? So many aircraft and so little time.
- NAA XB-70 (reading about this got me into aviation to begin with)
- Spitfire (obviously)
- DH Beaver (ought to be doable)
- DH 87 Hornet (for the looks and sociable cockpit)
- My own design of aeroplane!
Off the top of my head:
Lockheed Constellation
Agusta 109
Bolkow BO-105
Eurocopter EC-135
Leopard Moth
As time rolls on my list gets more focused:
Bücker Jungmann
Zlin Trenner
Cessna 180/185 on wheels, skis and floats (using up three types!)
My recreational flying is now mainly in a Warrior and a Pitts S-2A, and both types provide a very happy experience.
Pilatus PC-12
Fieseler Storch
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Airbus Helicopter H145
AV-8B Harrier II
The most realistic of these is probably the H145, as my department is responsible for crewing one of these with an emergency physician. Sadly, that doesn’t count for the logbook in the sense of this thread, despite then being an essential crew member…
Yes, the Fieseler Storch would be on my list,
Also;
The Australian Seeker observation airplane
A CL-415 waterbomber
The Boeing Chinhook Helicopter
and the Kaman Husky helicopter
In this order:
I might get to fly the last one some time during my life but any one of the others would be fine
SR-71
Space-X Crew Dragon / ISS
B747
Waco
Carbon Cub w bush wheels
The last two or course are doable if I put my mind to it. For any space flight I’d sadly need to win the lottery (and would be a pax anyway…).
Wright Flyer
AS350 B3 ECreuilHelicopter
AP1-88 Double07 Hoovercraft
Cosmic Wind
Soyuz TMA
Ultranomad wrote:
Eurocontrol does not handle FL1000, everything above FL660 is class G.But then you get to “request descent FL650”
Beech 17
Cessna 195
Spitfire
Something lightning fast like a Concorde or SR71
And then something old and open like a Jungmeister
RobertL18C wrote:
Cessna 180/185 on wheels, skis and floats (using up three types!)
We have a C185 here in Trondheim, currently on wheels, but was on floats and will back on floats hopefully next summer. For the skis, there are some discussions… So far I’ve flown it on floats first and recently on wheels, which felt a bit strange since I only knew the airplane on straight floats, landing it on terra ferma felt wrong :-) not to worry, I managed to focus and avoid trying to land it on the lake, even if the ATC asked me if I wanted to land on the fjord or the runway (I’m not the only one being used to have this aircraft being on floats).
For me it would be:
- Republic Seabea (might happen, they have one now in Como…)
- Grumman Mallard
- Spitfire
- U2
- Mirage III