Ashara Keliyn
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Undeniably these are engineering masterpieces.
Curious...why that over the Hellcat?Wildcat.
Preferred airplane of Santa’s reindeer…Corsair
Of course, Santa himself is a P-51 man…so up to the house-top the Corsairs they flew,
with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
Twas the night before Christmas all over the place,
When we were confronted by an old flying ace.
There was icing reported and turbulent air,
He said "File me a flight plan, I gotta get there."
Outside sat his aircraft all ready to run,
And the old man walked out to that P-51.
"bad weather's no problem," he silently mumbled,
The prop came to life. . . that big Allison rumbled.
He eased in the throttle, the roar shook the ground,
He taxied on out and he turned it around.
He went through the run-up and seemed satisfied,
Then he said to himself, "I'm in for a ride."
So he lined it up straight as he poured on the coal,
The tailwheel came up as he started to roll.
Up off the runway, he sucked up the gear,
And that mighty V-12 was all you could hear.
He screamed overhead with a deafening crack,
The blue flames were flying from each shiny stack.
He pulled up the nose and started to climb,
No ice on that airframe, it didn't have time.
On top of the weather with the levers all set,
He looked up above him and saw a Lear jet.
With jet fuel and turbines there just ain't no class,
Gimmee pistons, and props and lots of avgas!
Now he was approaching where he wanted to go,
But weather had covered the runway with snow.
How will he land it? We just have to guess,
Because the only way in was a full I-L-S.
Then over the marker, he started his run,
The ceiling was zero, visibility. . . none.
Still going three hundred and he felt the need,
For an overhead break to diminish his speed.
Over the numbers he zoomed, along like a flash,
Pulled into his break, we just knew he would crash.
Oh, why do they do it on these kindof nights??
Then over the threshold, we saw landing lights.
"I'm on a short final with three in the green,
And I see enough runway to land this machine."
Then he tied down that Mustang, and they all hear him say. . .
"Next year, I'm stickin' with my reindeer and sleigh."
Same reason I'd be interested in an early (MKV or earlier) Spitfire or a A6M2 Zero.It’s small and cozy. Just about everything in it is manual, gear, hook, wing fold. Light and spritely. No intentions of surviving a gunfight…. By all accounts it seems like the A-4 Skyhawk of WWII planes.
SameCorsair
Just the most well known ones.FW 190 or TA 152H
(why such a short list? You don't even have the P-40)
Being Boeing, you aren't worried about stuff falling off?Not one of those dinosaurs for me. T-7 Red Hawk is what I want.
At least he won't have to worry about getting stuck in orbit!Being Boeing, you aren't worried about stuff falling off?
Nah, we just round tripped to Iceland on a 737 Max 8, if that didn't do us in, I'm safe now. Besides, it's a joint venture with Saab, hopefully the Swedes will banish the bean counters back to somewhere far away from the engineers.Being Boeing, you aren't worried about stuff falling off?
Of the choices, voted Mustang.
But above that would be:
Thunderbolt
Mosquito
Hellcat
Bearcat
Corsair
Skyraider (almost WWII)
Just the most well known ones.
Heck, my RV's seem like a lot of maintenance to me. I probably need a few 18 year old draftees to help...Sat down with Dick Vangrunven for a bit a couple weeks about while at a Soaring Competition. One of the comments he made was one of the selling points for the RV airplanes is they fly like people think a WWII fighter should fly like (light/responsive controls). In reality what he is told from pilots that do fly these airplanes they are actually a lot of work to fly ( heavy controls, lots of systems to work with and monitor), not to mention a lot of maintenance.
Brian
Didn't think the Bearcat was in WW2. Thought was a little too late.
Didn't think the Bearcat was in WW2. Thought was a little too late.