Last flight

[patrick55]

If you had to pick ANY aircraft in which to have a final flight in, which would it be ?

 

 

[Guest burbles1]

Bleriot XI across the Channel ;)

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Space Shuttle of course

 

 

[dazza 38]

Me too, Space Shuttle.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

hey but i'm going to do the drivin :)

 

 

[facthunter]

Do the Driven.

 

I thought that control did most of that. IF I was there I would like a Space Shuttle ON COURSE. ( Joking) Think I would just enjoy the view. Hard one this. Do you want a nostalgia trip. A WOW! Bragging rights event or a go in a plane and an environment where the sheer piloting and geography was an extreme experience. Need time on this. Nev

 

 

[Spin]

SR-71, MiG-31, something that goes really fast and high!

 

 

[stanzahero]

Air Ambulance....

 

 

 

[patrick55]

I still can't decide, extreme would be fun but not sure if thats how I would like to spend my last flight (under extreme g's etc)

 

 

[Riley]

Pre-Pearly Gates penultimate flight?

 

Methinks any small float plane (Maule, 172, Rans, et al, etc) after an afternoon's fishing off the floats on a remote lake/river in Northern Canada or Tasmania or NZ. That's how it all started and poetically, should finish. Ah, the art of reminiscing - one of the few benefits of advancing years.

 

 

[Bandit12]

WWI biplane, something like a Pup. Fresh air, goggles and leather helmet, white scarf and just as the dawn breaks on a crisp morning.

 

 

[facthunter]

Pup etc.

 

Yeah. Sopwith Pup. Smoke and Castor oil all over you on a crisp frosty morning in an open cockpit without a heater. I must be getting soft. Nev

 

 

[Tomo]

Spitfire with a few mates playing chase. :big_grin:

 

 

[denmit]

No contest - P51D

 

 

[facthunter]

last Flight.

 

Could have been an A-380 for some Qantas passengers, thanks to RR. That was close actually. Wait for the report. Hell of a responsibility building those giant motors. Even the CF-6 was having a turbine disc inspection on each turn around on one chariot I was on. (Result of a uncontained engine failure and hull loss out of Ankara. (Air France)).

 

Now one of the most reliable engines around. Nev