What's Your Most Ridiculous Aviation Fantasy?

Mine is easy ! Would just love to do avery long distance trip in a 4 x piston engined airliner, but this must include at least one overnight stop somewhere, not much to ask is it ?

Getting a job at Historic Flying!!

sitting in the back of the b25 camera ship during the making of the battle of britain film

People being pleasant and respectful to each other on aviation forums and mailing lists.

I see my fantasy lasted nine whole minutes – not bad, I guess!

:rolleyes:

Flying around the pacific in a Grumman Goose, lugging cargo, fighting pirates and of course, getting the girl…………. that’ll do me just fine…..;)

Don’t forget defeating both the Nazis and the Japanese, and raising the money to buy Jack’s eye back! 😉

Airworthy Javelin

I’m with buccsociety on the Javelin, i’ll get the towing hitch, you get the cutters, meet you at Duxford just outside the wire mate !

Apart from ones involving airline stewardesses, you mean? 😀

A LOT of hosties. And a jumbo jet :diablo:

Fantasy, but more of a nightmare scenario.

I wake up one morning and log on to my PC to read an aviation forum. When I open the page, I see numerous ridiculous threads about…..”Your most ridiculous aviation fantasy” or “what would you buy etc etc” suggested by geeks who really need to get out more.

I then push the special button on my keyboard that says ‘Exterminate’ and dispatch the said PC geeks into oblivion, by an internet death ray…. The board then returns to sensible questions, decent aviation photography and interesting snippets from people who really do know what they are talking about.

…..and then I wake up from the dream…….Only to find that the boring and stupid threads are really there, but there is no exterminate button on the keyboard…. AAAAAARGH!

:rolleyes:

People being pleasant and respectful to each other on aviation forums and mailing lists.

Finding a forgotten Spitfire MkIX squadron in some underground hangar in Australia, all ready to go. And all mine.

(1) Piloting my own PBY (or better still, a 4 engined Landseaire air yacht conversion) on a very, very liesurly tour around the world (2) lying prone in the nose of a Mk4 Mossie as it races through valleys at high speed and ultra low-level. Oh yes, and maybe to see again a Vulcan 4 ship scramble, watching them leap into the air like fighters and feeling that awsome power from the Olympii rattle the old ribcage.

Wish I was 21 again,able to go back in time,win a dozen or so lottery jackpots,convert it all into real money(pounds,shillings & pennies),then go back in time & buy a disused expansion era airfield.Then I would buy 1 or 2 of each type that is rare or extinct,a few more common types and a nice little M.V. collection & mothball them until the aviation restoration movement came about.:D

I’d travel back in time to the morning of 12th July 2003 and tell my brother to stop working on a coolant problem that the Firefly had developed. If he hadn’t fixed it the aircraft would not have been able to fly that afternoon.

As for a flying experience… Mosquito low level in the fjords of Norway would rate pretty highly.

Flying a low level attack sortie in the worlds only airworthy Brigand, down along the Thames, and up over the Houses of Parliament (during PMs question time) as I release the napalm bombs.

Putting TSR 2 into max reheat………………….

Being able to restore a Javelin FAW.9 to full airworthy condition and with added bonus of having a non volatile starting system………….I’ll carry on dreaming!!!

A formation of Cessna T-41’s at Legends

That some eccentric warbird collector will give me his entire flyable fleet of a/c, and the funds to keep them operational for the next 40 years. 😮

Any takers out there… Oh, come on people, you know you want to…

T J (still optimistic) :rolleyes:

Fantasy right?

Being 21 again, and heading out with the Tangmere Spit XII Wing on October 20, 1943 when they got 9 for no loss.

Present day?

Getting my hands on EN224 🙂

Oddly enough, having watched a few Kulbit video’s on YouTube last evening, I later dreamt I was doing them myself in a JSF!! ?? (I’ve been working on some JSF contracts lately so that must have put the Yakcopy in my mind)
The Americans get touchy if you call it the British-skill-Yak-design. Can’t think why. 🙂

But, my daylight dream would be a flight in a Spit. Simple as that.