More on my list:
DeHavilland Dragon Rapide
Ford Tri-Motor
Focke Wulf FW.200 Condor
Aw, heck, just make in any of the classic airliners from aviation's Golden Age to the late '60s. Props preferred, but early jets are okay too as are a lot of the private aircraft of the era - Spartan Executive, Howard 500, Aeronca 7AC, Piper Cub...:fly:
Try a C-17.
It handles like a fighter jet. If you want thrills, try low level terrain following over the hot desert. The turbulence from the hot air and the up and down of the terrain following will have you losing your lunch like no roller coaster - but the effect is best if sitting in the sidewall troop seats since you can't see out the window and have no visual cue what is happening.
If you want no roller coaster thrill, then just go on some normal flights that are exciting but not gut wrenching. Troop drops are fascinating and you can stand on the ramp while they go out the side troop doors. Remember your safety harness and tether! Maximum effort take off is exhilerating and so is the tactical descent and assualt landing. And then you can also sit in the additional crew member seats and watch the pilots fly at night with NVG and in formation. The formation flying is when you can really see the other huge jets doing the snap turns in front of you and then your jet follows.
The pilot on one flight I was on put his paper towel with Kirkland chicken nuggets on the center console and they went sliding aft during takeoff. We caught them for him before they hit the deck - nobody wants a hungry and distracted pilot.
Videos galore online. Google them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FikKp2rxyM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQyGd6F2SKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZZntaqxdJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTJhlbqRdE
If you are going with those airliners, both prop and jet, why not include the Convair 880 and the Convair 990 Coronado. Maybe we should throw in the SUD/BAC Concorde. I always wanted to fly on one of those to Paris or London, and back. I thought the 990 was a more attractive plane than the DC-8, and could go faster also.
The Messerschmidt ME-163 Komet.
It would be a damn short flight but what a ride.
Time to climb in a league of it's own for the era.
There was a sea jet that was produced but it never went into production. I can't remember the name of it.. But it had giant skis.. Was an interesting looking aircraft.
Nobody has mentioned the XB-70 Valkyrie. What a ride! Only two built, one in existence.
https://www.wired.com/dangerroom/20...yrie-almost-the-world’s-1st-nuclear-aircraft/
I grew up outside of Willow Grove Pa....and one of these Sea Dart's was parked out on the lawn as a display for years and years....not sure what happened to it since...been a while since I drove by the old base.
YF2Y-1 Sea Dart, Bureau Number 135764, is on display at the Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum at NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. It is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola.
Nobody has mentioned the XB-70 Valkyrie. What a ride! Only two built, one in existence.
That's "XB-70 Savior"
No. I don't care what the original Valkyrie means...the aircraft's name is Valkyrie.
I think it was my Dad who told me about the "Savior" nickname when we saw the plane at Wright-Patt. The story is that the first thing people said when seeing the XB-70 up close was "Jesus Christ...."
-- Roger
I think it was my Dad who told me about the "Savior" nickname when we saw the plane at Wright-Patt. The story is that the first thing people said when seeing the XB-70 up close was "Jesus Christ...."
-- Roger
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