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Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:04 pm
All great suggestions.
I personally would like a P-6E, and a P-12E. To go with my Mustang, of course...
It would also be cool to see an Avro Arrow, but that's about as likely as a B-32.
Chris
Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:05 am
Heres the one nobody can top, We need a North American XB-70. I would have loved to see and hear this monster fly.OK guys,top that one!
Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:11 am
Went to the Udvar-Hazy Center today and thought that if I ever won the lottery I should show up at Oshkosh a few years later with a replica Arado Ar 234-

Then comes the Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 project...
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Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:49 pm
I would like to see an airworthy B 36 fly again.
Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:09 pm
The P-43...if I ever better myself and not worry about money this would be on the list of things to try and do. But why one? I think at lest x3 would do justice.
Also:
P-40B/C
P-66
P-64
P-36
P-35
B-17C/D and I think even E.
Again any cold war bird too but the B-36 would be tops on that.
Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:20 pm
Well, I wouldn't want to see a
non-airworthy B-36 fly...
My choice is an easy one. The deHavilland 103 Hornet. Possibly the prettiest piston twin ever built...and, excepting a few parts in museums or private collections, an unjustly extinct aircraft.
More doable would be some overlooked early-war or immediately-prewar types, such as the Buffalo (using the NMNA/Finnish recovered airframe as a basis, like the Willow Grove Me262 of yore) or the sweet-flying Mitsubishi A5M or Nakajima Ki27.
And as a Canuck, I'd love to see the RCAF's first fighter, the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin IIIA, replicated and flown. That could be done on a "lookalike" basis using an AgCat fuselage frame and engine as a basis...
S.
Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:23 pm
Just thought of another I can't believe I didn't already think of. Hawker Typhoon. Hardest part there, really, would be in replicating the Napier Sabre H24 (double-boxer-12) engine...
S.
Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:27 pm
...And another, to see whether it would really have worked. Vought F5U "Flying Flapjack".
Somebody's already noted the Horten series. Yep, a Horten/Gotha 229'd be sweet. Talk about ahead of its time: the thing's essentially a quarter-scale B-2 Spirit...flown in 1945!
S.
Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:44 pm
Graff Zeppelin
USS Macon
Hindenburg
Curtiss SOC-3
Curtiss SBC-4
Northrop BT-1
Great Lakes TG-1
Martin T3M-2
Curtiss R2C-2
Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:15 pm
Steve T wrote:Well, I wouldn't want to see a
non-airworthy B-36 fly...
Ha ha, gotta admit, it would be exciting! Actually, when I saw that post my first thought was "Man, I want to HEAR a B-36 fly!!!"
Yeah, a B-36, you bet. But the YB-17/Model 299 would sure fit into more airports.
Now for a question: Which would require more runway, a B-36 or XB-70? I started to qualify it as a 10-engine B-36, but then went back and edited the qualifier out....
Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:45 pm
N1K2-J
Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:57 am
N3Njeff wrote:N1K2-J

I like your style. How bout a little bit easier one from the land of the rising sun? Sort of similar to your favorite plane. K5Y Willow.
Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:06 am
ki46-11
ki45
ki48
j1n1
a7m2
j7w1
j2m3
ca14a turbo boomerang
ca15
dh hornet
and of course
westland whirlwind!!!!!!!!
Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:37 pm
Steve: I think that there was a Ki-27 replica being built, but was lost to a hangar fire.
Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:00 pm
Warbird Kid wrote:N3Njeff wrote:N1K2-J

I like your style. How bout a little bit easier one from the land of the rising sun? Sort of similar to your favorite plane. K5Y Willow.
Nope, sticking with the Violet thunder
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