1. B767-300 - workhorse of many domestic carriers - my preferred aircraft when flying.
My favorite seat is the upper deck front row of the 747. My better half just flew back last month from the USA on a 747, front row, window. Now it's her fav...
Having ridden more than a few from the Box Office, my favourite is, was, and will forever be the Douglas DC3.
Best, most reliable and safest airliner? Doubglas DC9. Diesel forever!
Having a father in TAA, I got to ride the jumpseat from VERY young. What a life that was.... from dawn over the Bight enroute to Perth in a 727, to doing 2 orbits of Ayer's Rock and the Olga's - also in a 727, and landing at Kingsford Smith in a DC9 for the Richmond Bicentennial Airshow in the middle of a storm, having to hold on tight as it thumped down hard, then rethumped!
The 777 is an impressive aircraft, in every way.
The A380... unimpressive. Like most Airbus aircraft. You get what you pay for. A340 is the most UNIMPRESSIVE airliner I have ever been in. I'd rather have flown in a darned 737-200 than a damned A340!
1. Sea Fury - simplicity in design but high performance
2. Spitfire
3. 777 - those big engines (... and I have spent some long hauls up the front of them)
4. F15 - like the lines of this aircraft
5. Mosquito
6. F16 - like the geometry at the front with the intake under the fuselage
And like some others here, have spent many an hour on FSX with these and many more aircraft (and the great ORBX scenery for Australia).
One of those amazing moments of human endeavour and no one sees the beauty in this one ?
The notion this will ultimately be yet another tool we can use to kill and maim each other, in that brief moment in time, just hasn't
occured to anyone yet.
One of those amazing moments of human endeavour and no one sees the beauty in this one ?
The notion this will ultimately be yet another tool we can use to kill and maim each other, in that brief moment in time, just hasn't
occured to anyone yet.
Ah but it wasn't long because I think the Wright boys approached the military with their design and suggested it's possible application for just that purpose.
Well every body is having a few goes at this, here goes:
Been for a ride in a Herc,Iroquois,chinook,caribou, also had a walk through in a concorde: very narrow internally.
I have always loved the Focke-wulf 190. A lovely plane from WW2 designed by Kurt tank. The D (Dora) is familier to most people and I built a Flying model of this when I was in high school.
Here is a nice modellers guide to this planes many variants.
The Mirage IIIO was something indeed. Used to watch them all day long in Townsville... and vividly recall the ARDU one dogfighting with the then new F/A-18 at the Richmond Bicentennial airshow. Have a friend who's son died while flying Mirage A3-40 - in commemoration many years after the event, I made a model of the aircraft for his father. Vale Craig.
