Building myself a scale model aircraft.

[Sunbane]

Yeah, the British Lightning is brutal!

[zeegler]

Another fantastic machine. In fact, the second most awesome aircraft ever to be called "Lightning"

I had several models of the Lightning. It was always one of my favourite jets. I suppose they're all mothballed now.

I just looked into this and apparently the F35, which is a joint project between NATO countries, is also named the Lightning II.

[Snoogans]

It's cool that they're keeping the name going. I just hope that it can live up to the legacy. Sadly the old Brit Lightnings are all static these days, except for the one in the picture, which still is able to power-up and do fast runway displays. Hopefully they'll get her airworthy one day...
There are some flying Lightnings in private hands in S. Africa.

[zeegler]

It's cool that they're keeping the name going. I just hope that it can live up to the legacy. Sadly the old Brit Lightnings are all static these days, except for the one in the picture, which still is able to power-up and do fast runway displays. Hopefully they'll get her airworthy one day...
There are some flying Lightnings in private hands in S. Africa.

Yes, I guess there is a company that sells high altitude flights in a Lightning. That would be a cool trip.

[Bengal]

I was just checking on famly history stuff. My "uncle" Jiggs (not really an uncle, just a very close friend of the family) flew a P-51 over Europe from 1943-1945. His plane was named "Snake Hips". I wish I had a picture of it. Don't even know what the graffic looked like. He died about 4 years ago, I need to get ahold of his daughter and see if there is a picture of him in the cockpit...

Doesn't Gary Numan (the dude who did the song Cars) restore and fly vintage WWII aircraft? I wonder how expensive that has become?

[pott]

Never liked the Mustang. Spitifire and Tempest fan here. Love the Hellcat too. The Corsair was a bitch it seems.

Love the Thunderbolt.

[zeegler]

I was just checking on famly history stuff. My "uncle" Jiggs (not really an uncle, just a very close friend of the family) flew a P-51 over Europe from 1943-1945. His plane was named "Snake Hips". I wish I had a picture of it. Don't even know what the graffic looked like. He died about 4 years ago, I need to get ahold of his daughter and see if there is a picture of him in the cockpit...

Doesn't Gary Numan (the dude who did the song Cars) restore and fly vintage WWII aircraft? I wonder how expensive that has become?

Gary is a pilot, but I don't know what type of planes he has.

[Bob From Accounting]

the 109 ...my favorite! And the Emil used in battle of britain too, very cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G60fP6EPZIo

[Rsmacker]

It's cool that they're keeping the name going. I just hope that it can live up to the legacy. Sadly the old Brit Lightnings are all static these days, except for the one in the picture, which still is able to power-up and do fast runway displays. Hopefully they'll get her airworthy one day...
There are some flying Lightnings in private hands in S. Africa.

One of my earliest memories as a kid was shitting my pants at an airshow when a Lightning screamed low over the crowd.
I saw one flying at the RAF Duxford airshow about 5 years ago, and shit myself then too. This time it was because I was trying to be clever and do a motorboat impression, squeezed just one fart out too many and followed through.

I'd like to see the Vulcan flying again, they've restored one a few miles from where I live, and typically the day they got it off the ground, I was away and missed it.

[StukaJU87]

Doesn't Gary Numan (the dude who did the song Cars) restore and fly vintage WWII aircraft? I wonder how expensive that has become?

Don't know about Gary, but expensive? Hell yes. Check the prices on the inventory page.

http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/

http://www.provenancefightersales.com/sale.htm#sales_list

P51's pull 1.5 mil and up. I saw a nice P40 a while back go high. You never or very rarely see P38's and they pull major bucks.

[Bengal]

Man, big bucks there...

But if I won the lottery, it would be a fun way to blow it...

Gas for these can't be cheap either...

[nhspike]

Blazer,
I figured you might dig this pic.
My brother Al, (AKA theone1950) has been building radio-controlled planes for a number of years... they fly and are fun to wreck!
LOL
Here's one of his latest... wingspan is something like 5 feet or more.
Dig it!

[zeegler]

One of my earliest memories as a kid was shitting my pants at an airshow when a Lightning screamed low over the crowd.
I saw one flying at the RAF Duxford airshow about 5 years ago, and shit myself then too. This time it was because I was trying to be clever and do a motorboat impression, squeezed just one fart out too many and followed through.

I'd like to see the Vulcan flying again, they've restored one a few miles from where I live, and typically the day they got it off the ground, I was away and missed it.

I saw a Vulcan fly once, and the Lightning too actually, at an air show when I was a kid. We used to go every year, until we moved to Canada. The Vulcan was very cool. I still think it looks futuristic, even today. The Lightning wasn't much to see really. It flew by so damn fast, it could have been a Mig 19 for all I knew. Just a blur.

[Snoogans]

I've been lucky (and old) enough to have seen both the Lightning and Vulcan fly at air displays. However my fondest "holy shit!" moment was provided by a pair of German nutters in F-104s.

[zeegler]

I've been lucky (and old) enough to have seen both the Lightning and Vulcan fly at air displays. However my fondest "holy shit!" moment was provided by a pair of German nutters in F-104s.

The Starfighters were always pretty cool. It was always hard to believe they could fly with such tiny wings.