what would you restore to fly?

I’d love to see a Saab J-21 in the air.

I’d also love to see the ex-North Central Airlines DC-3 “Old ‘728” (at one point the highest time aircraft in the world), both restored to flight and put back into it’s proper North Central paint scheme (the Northwest scheme on it now is just wrong)

what about a B-58 hustler.. better still a XB-70… with a Vulcan, Victor and Blinder thrown in for good measure.. then i could up stage the B-1, B-52 at Fairford…. and everything else for that matter… 😉 😀

It has to be the mysterious Russian Stirling that we are being wound up about, perhaps we could see it towing a Horsa as well, I’m sure Travis Perkins would do a good deal on large amounts of plywood.
Could be a good Legends next year, following a mock ground attack from Typhoons found intact in Tibet, the Stirling drops off the Horsa on to the Pegasus Bridge that has been purchased from France and re-erected over the far side of the airfield, reached by a tunnel from the Land Warfare Hall. Endless lines of Dakotas will drop off airborne troops led by Richard Todd in his final jump, the German vehicles in the LWH will then roar across the airfield, churning up the grass landing strip and the runway with their tracks, thus preventing the Balbo taking off, but no matter, this will consist of a former Russian Stirling and a squadron of Tibetan Typhoons, much more interesting I think, even though they will have to land at Marshalls.
Sorry, I’m in a funny mood today.

Is this the scenario where a FW-190 that was shipped off to Japan in the latter stage of the war will participate? You know, the one which was shipped off in small crates on a submarine. Which in turn was sunk by a PBY. Somehow all the crates drifted ashore at the same beach in Indonesia last thursday afternoon, just around tea-time. In time to be found by a Flypast forumite passing by who packed them in his luggage to take to the nearest restoration shop? :rolleyes: 😀

T J

Well, in dream land I’d vote for ‘Sugar’ out of Hendon too, but she’s SO old…SO precious…and SO knackered!

‘Black 6’ on the other hand really breaks my heart when I see it sat there in the gloom, dusty and slowly dripping it’s vital fluids. Heart breaking.

ANY Stirling would be nice- static would be just fine, though flying is one pipe dream too far!

Ah ha!… See I knew there would be some poor soul like me wishing for a Whirly…

mr blue sky
iv’e spent the last thirty years wishing for a whirly but with my luck it sould stay in the uk and i’d never get a chance to see it 🙁 but here’s hoping anyway
paul :diablo:

A Hawker Tempest beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Throw in a Hawker Typhoon and they could do quite a show!

It has to be the mysterious Russian Stirling that we are being wound up about, perhaps we could see it towing a Horsa as well, I’m sure Travis Perkins would do a good deal on large amounts of plywood.
Could be a good Legends next year, following a mock ground attack from Typhoons found intact in Tibet, the Stirling drops off the Horsa on to the Pegasus Bridge that has been purchased from France and re-erected over the far side of the airfield, reached by a tunnel from the Land Warfare Hall. Endless lines of Dakotas will drop off airborne troops led by Richard Todd in his final jump, the German vehicles in the LWH will then roar across the airfield, churning up the grass landing strip and the runway with their tracks, thus preventing the Balbo taking off, but no matter, this will consist of a former Russian Stirling and a squadron of Tibetan Typhoons, much more interesting I think, even though they will have to land at Marshalls.
Sorry, I’m in a funny mood today.

Mig-3U
FW-200
Pe-8

I dont think any of which have surviving airframes. Sad…

mr visard has some whirlwind parts (maybe a data plate) now to find some peregrines!
a ki46/11 dinah would also be nice
paul

Ah ha!… See I knew there would be some poor soul like me wishing for a Whirly…

NO CONTEST!

mr visard has some whirlwind parts (maybe a data plate) now to find some peregrines!
a ki46/11 dinah would also be nice
paul

1/ Mossie
2/ B-58
3/ Sunderland

A TBM-3W2 aswell as a TBM-3E without a turret but with the larger canopy over the turret aerea, A Mercator should be also be nice. BW Roger

Vultee Vengeance or BP Defiant

Steve

XH558 – or any other Vulcan come to that.

Speaking (more) fancifully I’d like to see a Tempest, Fairey Delta 2, but most of all, Blackburn Skua

A HU-16 Albatross,sea planes just love em.. 😀

Mossie and what about a Hornet??? now that would be a nice pair!!!

stukas – loads of them

i could think of hundreds of aircraft types i would love to restore and fly.. but top of the list would be… jet.. Sea Vixen “off course” or Su-15 Flagon or F-105 thundercheif.. prop.. Tempest V or Beaufighter or Stirling.. 🙂

Macchi MC72 and Macchi 205 “Veltro”.