There's so many I'd like to see in the air. There are flying replicas of Me 262's and Fw 190's, and having seen a brilliant Nat Geographic programme about it, a flying replica of a Horton flying wing jet fighter, a genuine stealth WW2 wooden jet. Then there's the Typhoon and Tempest, the Beaufighter, one of my all-time favourite planes, the DeHavilland DH88 Comet, the Supermarine S6B, any number of Japanese WW2 aircraft, and as a number of others have mentioned, the EE Lightning, and the Victor. It would be wonderful to see two of the three original V-Bombers flying together again.
I heard last week that the Lightning will be flying again. There is a group doing a similar thing to what they did with the Vulcan.
It has to be the EE Lightning. My old chap helped design bits of it so it holds a certain fascination for me.
The problem with Lightnings flying in the UK today is one of FAA approval. IIRC, there are airworthy examples at Bruntingthorpe but the British authorities aren't keen on a mach 2 jet in the hands of a private pilot.
Lightnings still do fly in South Africa, Thunder City have four, two single seaters and two two seaters which are used in a test pilots school there. The current speed record for a plane flying from African soil is held by a Lightning and was set in 2007.
Lightning & Phantom for me.
Would love to see the Lightning fly again, but I thought that it's lack of redundant systems means it's never going to happen?
Thinder City - Very much at the top of my Lottery winning places to visit!
No mention of the Spruce Goose yet? 😉
F-105 Thuds.
The Viggen.
Grumman F7F Tigercat. Bristol Beaufighter. I had a fascination with any fighter with twin radials...
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Skyraider
and of course........
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TSR2
If only someone could build one of these with the benefit of the knowledge it gave us. Best looking aircraft ever.
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This website is excellent
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/contents.php
You can see where surviving examples of great cold war and other jets are and what condition they are in.
Includes: Buccaneer Gannet Gnat Hunter Javelin Lightning Phantom
Scimitar Sea Hawk Sea Vixen Swift TSR.2 Valiant Victor Vulcan
A Lightning will never fly again (legally) in the UK. The main stumbling block is not the lack of redundant systems, nor lack of non-life expired parts for it, nor the fact they have an alarming habit of leaking like a leaky thing, its the fact BAe who inherited the type approval for it won't approve flight in civvy hands and won't allow anyone else to take over type approval (as with Marshalls and 558). No type approval, no permit to fly from the CAA.
P-51, P-38, F86 sabre dog, F-4, FW 190 again,A-10 again (love them), and the spruce goose, ME 163 Komet(300 built for 9 allied kills, bloody rubbish really but i'd like to see one airborne) and a De Havilland sea venom and mossie might be nice an oh and an FW condor would do nicely.
F-86 Sabre for me
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And my favourite of all time.
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I'd spend a couple of days in this going to the US. Why not make it solar powered too?
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Still think the daddy of close air support the A1 Skyraider is an outstanding bit of kit.
How's about the AC-47 "Spooky"
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I would run a mile if I knew it was in the area when it can do this...
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I don't usually like bringing dead threads back to life, but saw this today:
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