Favorite plane?

Page 3 of 5 [ 68 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Next

Previous topic | Next topic

MaxE
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 2 Sep 2013
Gender: Male
Posts: 5,800
Location: Mid-Atlantic US

07 Jun 2024, 5:47 am

The late, lamented L1011 Tristar.

_________________
My WP story

SGHFan
Emu Egg
Emu Egg

Joined: 13 Jun 2024
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 2
Location: Raleigh

13 Jun 2024, 9:12 pm

I'm flying on a Boeing 757 tomorrow, my favorite narrowbody jet due to how overpowered it is!

Jakki
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Sep 2019
Gender: Female
Posts: 11,831
Location: Outter Quadrant

13 Jun 2024, 11:30 pm

Have a safe trip please.. :mrgreen:

_________________
Diagnosed hfa
Loves velcro,

Quote:

where ever you go ,there you are

naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

21 Jun 2024, 8:38 pm

If you're a true connoisseur of vintage jet age air travel then you need to fly "Air Koryu"...the national airline of North Korea. Even Russia itself no longer flies these Soviet era passenger planes. Not just old models...these are actual fifty year old planes.

https://youtu.be/8zLXw7SQvAk

CockneyRebel
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 17 Jul 2004
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Posts: 116,810
Location: In my little Olympic World of peace and love

21 Jun 2024, 9:23 pm

I like the British WWI Sopworth. It looks like a peapod with wings.

_________________
The Family Enigma

mgurak
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker

Joined: 24 May 2024
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Posts: 57
Location: Virginia, United States

07 Jul 2024, 1:11 am

I'm going to have to go a little different here and say the Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules, aka The Herky Bird. Pretty much if you can get it in the cargo hold, it will fly it. That thing is HUGE!

_________________
I wanna rock and roll until bedtime with the music kept to a decent level and party for an hour or so unless I'm with my trusted friends.

Mountain Goat
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 13 May 2019
Gender: Male
Posts: 14,726
Location: .

07 Jul 2024, 4:22 am

Stanley number 5 is good, but any from the Stanley range will do.

_________________
https://everything2.com/user/Zifendorf/writeups/shutdow

Jakki
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Sep 2019
Gender: Female
Posts: 11,831
Location: Outter Quadrant

07 Jul 2024, 2:27 pm

idk recall who made the C-7 , but it is a giant .......Then there is the Super Guppy ( aka Pregnant Guppy)
is used for transporting rocket booster components after being built .For Space Missions.

_________________
Diagnosed hfa
Loves velcro,

Quote:

where ever you go ,there you are

mgurak
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker

Joined: 24 May 2024
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Posts: 57
Location: Virginia, United States

09 Jul 2024, 2:12 am

Jakki wrote:

idk recall who made the C-7 , but it is a giant .......Then there is the Super Guppy ( aka Pregnant Guppy)
is used for transporting rocket booster components after being built .For Space Missions.

Looks like that was Aero Spaceline Industries, according to the NASA site. Not too many were made. But then, I guess you wouldn't need too many anyway.

_________________
I wanna rock and roll until bedtime with the music kept to a decent level and party for an hour or so unless I'm with my trusted friends.

cyberdad
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Posts: 36,036

09 Jul 2024, 2:34 am

My daughter's special interest is commercial airlines
her favourite

Jakki
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Sep 2019
Gender: Female
Posts: 11,831
Location: Outter Quadrant

09 Jul 2024, 9:06 am

regarding the above.... ..She has good taste :mrgreen:

_________________
Diagnosed hfa
Loves velcro,

Quote:

where ever you go ,there you are

Jakki
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Sep 2019
Gender: Female
Posts: 11,831
Location: Outter Quadrant

09 Jul 2024, 9:12 am

mgurak wrote:

Jakki wrote:

idk recall who made the C-7 , but it is a giant .......Then there is the Super Guppy ( aka Pregnant Guppy)
is used for transporting rocket booster components after being built .For Space Missions.

Looks like that was Aero Spaceline Industries, according to the NASA site. Not too many were made. But then, I guess you wouldn't need too many anyway.

regarding the Super Guppy ..My Last husbands , friend whom he worked with for many years in the Aerospace Industry
Was quoted on several times saying , " He was the one who got the Guppy pregnant" ....Inside joke in the Aerospace Industry . He was one of the Structural Engineers that actually assembled the Monster plane . :nerdy:

_________________
Diagnosed hfa
Loves velcro,

Quote:

where ever you go ,there you are

naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

10 Jul 2024, 8:25 am

Jakki wrote:

mgurak wrote:

Jakki wrote:

idk recall who made the C-7 , but it is a giant .......Then there is the Super Guppy ( aka Pregnant Guppy)
is used for transporting rocket booster components after being built .For Space Missions.

Looks like that was Aero Spaceline Industries, according to the NASA site. Not too many were made. But then, I guess you wouldn't need too many anyway.

Yes. The Guppy and Super Guppy were actually variants of variants that trace back to the B29 Flying Fortress bomber of WWII. Some airplanes spawn variants and variants of variants that form a family tree. And the Flying Fortress was notable for it variety of variants...the skinny narrow bodied original spawned the incredibly fat "Guppies" as civilian cargo descendants.

One Fortress bombing Japan in WWII was forced to land in Soviet Russia. We eventually got it and its crew back, but not after Stalin forced his engineers to reverse engineer it for himself. The result was a near perfect Soviet clone of our B29 dubbed by NATO the "Bull Bomber". The first Russian strategic bomber. Trouble is it was already the jet age when the USSR started putting it out in production (and showing it off at airshows). But this Russian variant itself spawned a Russian civilian variant: a passenger plane variant for Aeroflot Airlines. So the B29 had a Russian family tree in addition to it American progeny.

funeralxempire
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 27 Oct 2014
Age: 39
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 29,028
Location: Right over your left shoulder

10 Jul 2024, 11:37 am

Just to nitpick, Superfortress, not Flying Fortress. Flying Fortress was the B-17.

_________________
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become king, the palace becomes a circus.
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." —Former U.S. Airman (Air Force) Aaron Bushnell

naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

10 Jul 2024, 2:49 pm

Darn! :oops:
I knew that! :lol:

funeralxempire
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 27 Oct 2014
Age: 39
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 29,028
Location: Right over your left shoulder

02 Aug 2024, 10:54 pm

I'm pretty fond of the Douglas A-4, especially the later (A-4F and onward) models with the dorsal hump.

The proposed enlarged A4D-6 has been a major influence on one of my designs of a game I used to play.

Page 3 of 5 [ 68 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Next

Jump to:

Favorite plane? Post Reply New Topic

Favorite plane?