Can You Believe Someone Has One of These To Fly For Fun?

[MIflyer]

 

[Capt. Vick]

Beautiful

 

[SaparotRob]

That blows the doors off of a Cessna eCaravan.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

My word, we should be so fortunate that he flung himself on this god-awful task.

 

[mjfur]

North American F-100 Super Sabre - Wikipedia

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Airworthy

F-100F

• 56-3844 – Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts.[92][93]
• 56-3916 – privately owned in Belgrade, Montana.[94]
• 56-3948 – privately owned in Fort Wayne, Indiana.[95]
• 56-3971 – privately owned in Belgrade, Montana

 

[Snautzer01]

Very nice.

 

[MIflyer]

My word, we should be so fortunate that he flung himself on this god-awful task.

Well, if he really wanted to experience God-awful he would have restored an F-106.

 

[eljefe]

My aeroclub once shared a hangar with a privately owned CF-104. That had to be about the most challenging privately owned aircraft on the planet to fly, but once you got it out over the gulf and hit those burners...

 

[MIflyer]

I always wanted an F-102, myself. Looks so cool and we used to see them coming over around our town when the ANG had them.

 

[manta22]

I always wanted an F-102, myself. Looks so cool and we used to see them coming over around our town when the ANG had them.
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Well, if he really wanted to experience God-awful he would have restored an F-106.

The Pima Air Museum has an F-107.

 

[MIflyer]

The Pima Air Museum has an F-107.

Yeah, back around 1978 a USAF officer was trying to get permission to put that airplane back in the air. And a friend of mine had bought the YJ-75 engine from that airplane and had it in his storage yard; after he died it was sold for scrap.

 

[SaparotRob]

 

[Ovod]

I always wanted an F-102, myself. Looks so cool and we used to see them coming over around our town when the ANG had them.

I've always wanted an F-105!
I don't think there are any 'Thuds' still flying though.

 

[MIflyer]

I've always wanted an F-105!

I worked on the F-105. I would not want one except possibly as a lawn ornament on a large estate. I never worked on the F-102, which might explain why I would want one.

 

[Ovod]

I worked on the F-105. I would not want one except possibly as a lawn ornament on a large estate. I never worked on the F-102, which might explain why I would want one.

Well, obviously you would pay other people to work on your own personal flying F-105.
Why exactly would you not want your own personal F-105, the coolest cold war combat aircraft of them all?

 

[SaparotRob]

The coolest warbird is an AVG P-40 with shark mouth.

 

[Admiral Beez]

How would the latest Super Sabre do against other single engine nose breathers? Like the MiG-21, Chengdu J-7, Sukhoi Su-9, and Dassault Super Mystère. The MiG-21 and J-7 have radar, but the Sabre has the better missiles.

 

[MIflyer]

The F-105 certainly was the coolest SOUNDING airplane ever. BOOM! on takeoff and Wheeoooowww! on landing. I went to Wichita and put theirs back in the air. Fortunately they had one in the junkyard we could rob parts from.


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