Over at TMZ a bright video paparazzi asked John Travolta an interesting question as the actor left a LA resturant.
“If you could fly with anyone-living or dead- who would it be and in what type of aircraft.”
Travolta replied either Howard Hughes in a Constallation or Charles Lindbergh in a unidentified flying boat.
So that promts a question…who would you like to fly with and in what?
Here are some of mine:
Lindbergh in the Spirt of St. Louis (he did fly with one passenger a few times, most notably Henry Ford and his son Edsel) or a Jenny.
Howard Hughes in his Sikorsky flying boat.
Igor Sikorsky in his VS-300 (but it only had one seat).
Geoffrey de Havilland Jnr in a Mosquito, Chuck Yearger in a Mustang, Tex Johnston in the 367-80….
Ernest K. Gann in a AA DC-3.
By: 12Harriers - 25th February 2013 at 18:16
Scarlett Johannson!
By: Ratty - 25th February 2013 at 17:29
Neil Armstrong in a LEM
By: baloffski - 25th February 2013 at 17:05
Johnny Allam in a Victor B1 – either sub or supersonic flight I am not choosy!
By: PeterVerney - 25th February 2013 at 15:19
:D:D Resmoroh. IF my dream came true we would find whatever scruffy little Met office you inhabited, determine coffee time, and do a flyby a la Tom Cruise in Top Gun:D:D Don’t forget we nearly flew through the tower at Whatashame one foggy night while feeling for the runway which neither of us saw. There was a rattled voice came up quick saying “77, divert to Manston”
By: Simon Beck - 25th February 2013 at 02:53
Ted Whaley in a C-82 Jet-Packet. This guy flew the Packet for many years
and flew almost every civil registered C-82 there was incuding the few
derelicts rescued out of Mexico in 1967!
Paul Mantz in any aeroplane.
Frank Tallman in a Stearman.
Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1.
Ray Hanna in the P-51D.
By: Kenneth - 23rd February 2013 at 20:33
“Buffalo Joe” in a DC-3 or the late Arnie Schreder in a DC-4.
By: Tim.S - 23rd February 2013 at 17:10
Jeffrey Quill in what else a spitfire and Harald Penrose in a Wyvern.
By: Resmoroh - 23rd February 2013 at 15:00
Peter,
Like that! And on Newmarket Racecourse?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Resmoroh
By: PeterVerney - 23rd February 2013 at 14:56
My old pilot Joe, RIP, in a Meteor NF14
By: Resmoroh - 23rd February 2013 at 14:39
The plastic blow-up job at the end of “Airplane”
Resmoroh
By: Napper Bantock - 23rd February 2013 at 13:32
…….Eric Brown in frankly anything as the list is endless!……..probably something a little hairy – safest pair of hands!
…….Hoof Proudfoot (impossible aircraft but) Hurricane – loved his displays.
…….Ray Hanna in a Gnat.
……..Alex Henshaw Spitfire.
By: FLYING SAUCER - 23rd February 2013 at 13:24
With my fantastic Husband in a TSR 2 !!!:D
By: charliehunt - 23rd February 2013 at 13:13
Beat me to it – Neil Williams in anything. Ray Hanna in anything and next to Roly Falk rolling the Vulcan and in a T& Hunter with childhood hero Neville Duke.
By: Newforest - 23rd February 2013 at 12:50
We landed at SWF in the failing afternoon light, turned off the active, called ground, taxied to the ramp, and gently turned into our parking spot at the marshal’s guiding.
All with the tail in the air, the fuselage level, that old fart showing us exactly how a Doug Racer could be gentled into doing anything you asked of it.
Then he slowly lowered the tailwheel and we shut down. “What’d you say your name was? Gann?”
:D:D Brilliant!
By: David Burke - 23rd February 2013 at 12:47
Neil Williams
By: nostalgair2 - 23rd February 2013 at 12:01
John ‘Jeff’ Hawke in just about any big piston machine, but i reckon he could make a B-25 sing!
By: Stepwilk - 23rd February 2013 at 01:10
Ernest K. Gann in a AA DC-3.
I actually did that. For Flying Magazine’s 50th Anniversary issue, we had a DC-3 repainted in AA colors, and Ernie and I–swapping seats–re-flew one of his original routes. Newark to Wilkes-Barre and on to somewhere else, I can’t remember where, maybe Elmira, then to Stewart (which wasn’t part of the original route, but it was where I lived and my wife and I needed to be dropped off).
What I remember most vividly was the grizzled old Texan who was in charge of the DC-3–he didn’t own it but was the owner’s chief pilot–who sat uncomplainingly in the back through too many hours of Ernie’s and my fumbling attempts to be nice to his airplane, and then he flew the last leg himself. We landed at SWF in the failing afternoon light, turned off the active, called ground, taxied to the ramp, and gently turned into our parking spot at the marshal’s guiding.
All with the tail in the air, the fuselage level, that old fart showing us exactly how a Doug Racer could be gentled into doing anything you asked of it.
Then he slowly lowered the tailwheel and we shut down. “What’d you say your name was? Gann?”
By: Belforte - 23rd February 2013 at 00:10
Bob Hoover of course. As Jimmy Doolittle once said about Robert A. “Bob” Hoover, the “greatest stick-and-rudder pilot who ever lived.” Had the pleasure of meeting him in California when we got checked out in our Turbo Aero Commander 690B many years ago. He could make his Shrike Commander do a jig on the runway and pour a glass of tea while doing a roll.
By: Dean W - 22nd February 2013 at 22:56
I’m sure Anatoly Kvochur in a Su-27 or Gyula Vari in a MiG-29 could be fun!
By: DC Page - 22nd February 2013 at 22:31
Steve Hinton in a Super Corsair
Jimmy Doolittle in a B-25 launched from the Hornet.
Jimmy Stewart in a B-36
Adolph Galland in a Bf-109
Gunther Rall in an Me-262
Bob Hoover in anything he wants to fly.
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February 22, 2013 at 7:48 pm