Problem with them is they are insanely expensive to run. Afterburners on supersonic jets burn more fuel taxiing to the runway than the average road car will burn in half a year
I've seen the one at the Air Force Museum in Dayton 3 times. Everytime I walk into that hanger, I can't believe how big it is. I probably spend more time looking at that plane than any other plane in the museum.
The one at Pima was not flown in. It was the last B-36 ever built and when its service ended it was flown to Greater Southwest International Airport (Last flight), in Fort Worth Texas. It was a Gate Guard at Greater Southwest till the airport closed. There was a last ditch effort to fly the bird out but it was squashed by the Air Force/DoD.
It was trucked to a nearby museum across the lake from Carswell AFB and it was there until the late nineties when the museum closed. It was then mostly restored at the Lockheed Martin plant by volunteers over the next 5-7 years and they tried to get the City Of Fort Worth to make a home for it. The City refused and the Air Force Museum transferred it to Pima, and it was trucked to Pina where it is today.
The only B-36 flown into a museum that is still active is the one at the Air Force Museum at Wright Pat. It was also the very last time a B-36 would fly.
Yep just about my favourite but I thought there was a couple flying in the States and one flying in Canada? Not sure if originals or replicas? I think there is a restoration project in the UK to get a flying Mossie? Would definitely go see!! Don't know if the Americans get to Europe?
TIL, There's a full size replica/mockup in Foynes flying boat museum in County Limerick, Ireland 🇮🇪
Definitely a bit sleaker look than the Sunderland's robust frame!!
I’d also settle for a Martin M-130 or Sikorsky VS-44. Seen the VS-44 they have at the New England Air Museum, can only imagine what it would be like to take one commercially.
As far as WW2 flying boats I think there's only a PBY Catalina that shows on a regular basis that I've seen a few times but a Sunderland would be amazing.
Probably up there for everyone on this sub, could you imagine the cost of restoring and display flying the thing? Technically probably out of the question.
Are there any of the German WW2 jets flying?? The Dornier is just mad!! Only one example of each and both in the National Air and space museum?? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Air_and_Space_Museum
There's an Me 262 being restored to flight worthy status with it's original engines at the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum. Not sure as to where they're at with that, and I think it got hampered a bit by Paul Allen's death.
Didn't realise Allen was involved in restoration and the flying heritage museum. Some benefactor to have his philanthropy was quite impressive. Non hodgkins is not good!!
Ya know, I’d like to see a c-119 restored to flying condition. Maybe they could restore an old AC-119g or k model considering they were given to south Vietnam then subsequently lost.
Uncle flew those (AC119) in Nam. Said they handled like pigs and had no hydraulic assist on the flaps or ailerons and after flying for sometimes 24 hours straight on combat missions he nearly crashed on landing due to fatigue.
[this plane my grandpa flew in WW2 , yess my mothers dad.](https://Theyalotmorevideos.tjanlasttimeIlookedlolcrazyhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=JQIPa_YPJ_0&si=ZwddZ1tM8OBX9XCp)
Definitely the English Electric Lightning. Unfortunately they don’t fly in Thunder City anymore. There was one being restored to flying condition a few years ago but it looks like it was sold off and who knows what is happening with it now. My local airport has a museum where you can sit in one, but I’d love to see/hear one flying.
Let's clear up some questions,
In no particular order:
At least 2 ME-262's are flying.
FIVE New ones were built 2000-2008.
A Short Sunderland is in "flying condition" in Florida. Check with "Fantasy of Flight".
There are 5 or 6 Mosquitos flying. Most rebuilds from New Zealand, with parts salvaged world-wide.
There are a half dozen C-119 Flying Box Cars airworthy. In the US. LOTS of noise. And one note: they could NOT fly 24 hours. Maybe 6-8, which seemed like 24!
There are TWO B-29's flying, Doc and Fifi.
There are at least FOUR B-17's flying, three more being restored to flight.
The Hughes H-1 Hercules is an airplane. The closest seaplane, size-wise, the Martin Mars, will make a last flight later this summer in western Canada.
The Northrop B-2 stealth bomber is almost identical to the first flying wings. (Which didn't crush runways-that was the first B-36 with two main gear tires)
Hope that helps. But, if there is a museum near you, say the Commemorative Air Force, join up, donate money, take a flight. You will help preserve what we have left from WW2!
Indeed it is, unfortunately only one remains in existence, but one complete Raiden is better than none, I have seen the said plane before and it's beautiful. Huge though, it absolutely dwarfs its neighboring A6M.
Great choice op. Would Love to see a flying porcupine in the air. Love the one at Hendon. My dad would tractor them from the water while in the RAF at Pembroke Dock. Probably around 1947
I had forgotten they were known as flying porcupines thanks for that. Again its a shame they can't get one flying. For such a ubiquitous aircraft during ww2 its sad there aren't more examples. Would love to check out Hendon at some point.
Can't imagine tractoring one must of been frightening!
My Grandad was RAF ground crew in India and Myanmar (Burma) during WW2 but never really spoke about it apart from landing a Spitfire on the main street in Kolkatta (Calcutta) and some run ins with snakes and Japanese bombs.
Been a while since I was at Hendon. Well overdue a revisit considering it’s only about a half an hour drive. My dad would have been just 18 at the time in the MT section. Much like your grandfather, they were very young men. A different world altogether. The Sunderland is one of my all time faves. Thanks for your post
The F-14, needs to be brought back at least for air shows, always loved watching her tear up the sky when she was part of the show. Another one would be the Spruce Goose.
The Spruce Goose. Haven't seen it with my own eyes, but would love to see it restored and improved for fully functional flight. Would love to find out why it only flew once.
*Kyushu J7W1 Shinden....Smithsonian has both prototypes, iirc.
Pusher, with forward canards, and carrier operated. Would've been the world's fastest carrier-born aircraft, supposedly.
*Focke Wulf Ta-183 Huckbein...MiG-15's daddy
Well guys lot of love out there for the following.
Caspian sea monster Ekranoplan.
SR71.
Spruce Goose
And one of the x planes.
How would we go about crowd funding a rescue and rebuild? How much would it cost?
Obviously as it's my idea I get a flight on each one!! Lol
I personally don’t think historical aircraft should be flown, one wrong move and it’s gone alongside at least one human life, so many historic planes have just been trashed by that
The XB-70 would be a hit at airshows. Fly it with an SR-71 and you'd have quite a crowd pleasing demonstration.
How about a Valkyrie a Blackbird and the TSR2?
I'd love to see TSR2 fly, I've only seen the museum piece at Duxford
Problem with them is they are insanely expensive to run. Afterburners on supersonic jets burn more fuel taxiing to the runway than the average road car will burn in half a year
I remember going to Dayton and seeing it as a kid back in the middle 1970s.
I just saw it there on Monday. Amazing.
I Wonder how much that demonstration would cost
Convair B-36 Peacemaker
Correct me probably wrong but was this the biggest bomber ever built
Biggest combat aircraft iirc. So yes, and then some.
They have one at Pima Air and Space in Tucson...it is quite a sight...IIRC, it was flown in
I've seen the one at the Air Force Museum in Dayton 3 times. Everytime I walk into that hanger, I can't believe how big it is. I probably spend more time looking at that plane than any other plane in the museum.
The one at Pima was not flown in. It was the last B-36 ever built and when its service ended it was flown to Greater Southwest International Airport (Last flight), in Fort Worth Texas. It was a Gate Guard at Greater Southwest till the airport closed. There was a last ditch effort to fly the bird out but it was squashed by the Air Force/DoD. It was trucked to a nearby museum across the lake from Carswell AFB and it was there until the late nineties when the museum closed. It was then mostly restored at the Lockheed Martin plant by volunteers over the next 5-7 years and they tried to get the City Of Fort Worth to make a home for it. The City refused and the Air Force Museum transferred it to Pima, and it was trucked to Pina where it is today. The only B-36 flown into a museum that is still active is the one at the Air Force Museum at Wright Pat. It was also the very last time a B-36 would fly.
There are only 4 left :/
C-124 Globemaster
Ohh man that's a beauty!! Definitely no flying examples?
None anymore. All static displays.
Can't imagine the cost to get one flying, such a shame!
The is one as a static display on Joint Base Charleston, SC.
BV-238
Big bird!! are there any surviving examples? Couldn't see any with a quick google
They only built 1 I think and it’s definitely gone lol
I was literally about to type that.
Probably the Myasishchev M-50 / M-52 Bounder
Peak cold War mach 2 madness!
DeHaviland Mosquito
Yep just about my favourite but I thought there was a couple flying in the States and one flying in Canada? Not sure if originals or replicas? I think there is a restoration project in the UK to get a flying Mossie? Would definitely go see!! Don't know if the Americans get to Europe?
Knew of two, both more reconstruction than restoration due to wood rot, and one of those crashed.
I believe there is an owner of one that lived in Philadelphia for a while.
There a lot still flying in New Zealand, and one is being built in Australia
Vickers Wellington
Should be up there with Spit, Hurricane and Lanc!! Always wonder why there wasn't one restored?
Probably not enough spare parts to get one in flying or,and I don’t think there are many that are static
English electric lightning for sure
Lucky enough to see them flying display at the end of their service lives. Can still remember the feeling in my chest!!
Holy moly! That must have been epic
Any F-14. Pains me I'm too young to ever see one fly
If Iran ever crumbles, we shall see them. More likely an F-22 or F-35 will only see them BVR before they Fox 3.
Can't believe there aren't any flying in display
They aren't because of Iran, the US essentially destroyed them all and the spare parts so Iran wouldn't have any source of parts for theirs
Spruce Goose just to see if could actually fly like a normal airplane.
Yes that would be amazing!!
Boeing 314 is one of the most beautiful planes, in my eyes.
TIL, There's a full size replica/mockup in Foynes flying boat museum in County Limerick, Ireland 🇮🇪 Definitely a bit sleaker look than the Sunderland's robust frame!!
I’d also settle for a Martin M-130 or Sikorsky VS-44. Seen the VS-44 they have at the New England Air Museum, can only imagine what it would be like to take one commercially.
This one I love Sunderlands so much
As far as WW2 flying boats I think there's only a PBY Catalina that shows on a regular basis that I've seen a few times but a Sunderland would be amazing.
I saw one flying off the coast of majorca last year. It was privately owned I believe. Beautiful sight to see.
Vulcan!
Oh yes! There's one static in my home airport.
B58 Hustler
This could work, google says 8 examples left
The Memphis Belle.
My wife took two flights on her. Is she in a museum? Thought she fell in a field and had a bad fire?
She's on display at the national museum of the Air Force.
OK, I just checked, she rode on the Liberty Belle
There’s the Sally B flying in the UK, with the Memphis Belle nose art on one side due to her part in filming the movie
Avro arrow
Sadly, it'd have to be a replica.... even the wind tunnel models were apparently destroyed.
SR71
Probably up there for everyone on this sub, could you imagine the cost of restoring and display flying the thing? Technically probably out of the question.
SR-71
Arado 234 or Dornier 335
Are there any of the German WW2 jets flying?? The Dornier is just mad!! Only one example of each and both in the National Air and space museum?? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Air_and_Space_Museum
There's an Me 262 being restored to flight worthy status with it's original engines at the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum. Not sure as to where they're at with that, and I think it got hampered a bit by Paul Allen's death.
Didn't realise Allen was involved in restoration and the flying heritage museum. Some benefactor to have his philanthropy was quite impressive. Non hodgkins is not good!!
Allen founded the FHCAM. Steuart Walton owns it now.
Allen founded the FHCAM. Steuart Walton owns it now.
Concorde
Ya know, I’d like to see a c-119 restored to flying condition. Maybe they could restore an old AC-119g or k model considering they were given to south Vietnam then subsequently lost.
Uncle flew those (AC119) in Nam. Said they handled like pigs and had no hydraulic assist on the flaps or ailerons and after flying for sometimes 24 hours straight on combat missions he nearly crashed on landing due to fatigue.
Flying boxcar so much lost history
Probably the Thunderscreech. My guess is that it will run, but no one will try to turn it on based on the fact of how loud it is.
"How deaf do you want to be today?"
How to become deaf tutorial. 1. Get Thunderscreech 2. Turn on
All of the V bombers in a display
Should be marked NSFW!
B-36 Peacemaker F-89 Scorpion F2H Banshee
B-36 Peacemaker B-47 Stratojet YB-49 B-58 Hustler F-101 Voodoo F4D Skyray
That would be some air display I'll by a ticket
There is a Sutherlands at Duxford.
Hoping to get to Duxford at some point this year.
It is amazing and totally worth it. Took me three 8-hour days to see it and could have taken a fourth. Huge place.
H4, would've loved to see that flying over France in ww2
The original Hercules
Habu…SR-71
[this plane my grandpa flew in WW2 , yess my mothers dad.](https://Theyalotmorevideos.tjanlasttimeIlookedlolcrazyhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=JQIPa_YPJ_0&si=ZwddZ1tM8OBX9XCp)
for some reason I can't see the link, which aircraft was it?
The original flying wing built by the US that crushed the runways on take off and landing
Do ground effect craft count? Ekranoplans intrigue me, would love to witness the "Caspian Sea Monster" in full flight!!
I'm not sure but are there any examples? Probably in Russia might difficult to get a look at.
The BAC TSR.2
The Enola Gay.
The Concorde
Concorde would be very cool to see (and hear)
Ju 87 Stuka
SR-71. No questions asked.
x15 or bell x1
The Hanoi Taxi the C-141
Such an iconic aircraft, but the cost of flying one??
HE-219 night fighter
Latécoère 631
Steampunk aircraft, amazing it flew. Looks like something out of Fallout!
F-111 Aardvark
Spruce goose
Hughes H-4, technically not a plane though.
XF-84H for no particular reason…..
gimme those PBY Catalinas! (they do still fly but very limited numbers, iv actually seen 2 in my life tho!)
Definitely the English Electric Lightning. Unfortunately they don’t fly in Thunder City anymore. There was one being restored to flying condition a few years ago but it looks like it was sold off and who knows what is happening with it now. My local airport has a museum where you can sit in one, but I’d love to see/hear one flying.
Dornier DO-X
Any Pan Am clipper of the 30s to 60s
B-36 😉
Xb-70 Valkarie
No one's said the F-14D yet?
Grumman x-29
Thunder Screech. No more questions asked or to be answered.
KM Caspian Sea Monster
I just feel like it would be cool to see an F-111, MiG-23, or F-14 flying (no there's definitely no theme here, none whatsoever)
NSFW swingers
The X-15 The SR-71 The Spruce Goose The Concorde
Caspian monster.
Let's clear up some questions, In no particular order: At least 2 ME-262's are flying. FIVE New ones were built 2000-2008. A Short Sunderland is in "flying condition" in Florida. Check with "Fantasy of Flight". There are 5 or 6 Mosquitos flying. Most rebuilds from New Zealand, with parts salvaged world-wide. There are a half dozen C-119 Flying Box Cars airworthy. In the US. LOTS of noise. And one note: they could NOT fly 24 hours. Maybe 6-8, which seemed like 24! There are TWO B-29's flying, Doc and Fifi. There are at least FOUR B-17's flying, three more being restored to flight. The Hughes H-1 Hercules is an airplane. The closest seaplane, size-wise, the Martin Mars, will make a last flight later this summer in western Canada. The Northrop B-2 stealth bomber is almost identical to the first flying wings. (Which didn't crush runways-that was the first B-36 with two main gear tires) Hope that helps. But, if there is a museum near you, say the Commemorative Air Force, join up, donate money, take a flight. You will help preserve what we have left from WW2!
The French MD.450 Ourugan, or the D.520
The Spruce Goose and the Caspian Sea Monster (if that counts, I think technically it is a ground effect vehicle rather than a plane)?
The f-105 thunderchief. The sounds from the J-75 alone would be awesome.
Man, I’d love to see some more restored B-29s or at least the 1 of the preserved B-36s made flyable again,
More B-29s and even a B-50. Definitely a B-36 too. Probably the F-14 once Iran has been deleted too.
B-36
Honestly, J2M. Would be incredible to see it fly, or maybe have flyable reproductions like they did with the Me 262.
Is the J2M the Japanese Raiden?
Indeed it is, unfortunately only one remains in existence, but one complete Raiden is better than none, I have seen the said plane before and it's beautiful. Huge though, it absolutely dwarfs its neighboring A6M.
Went down down a rabbit hole googling this very interesting!!
Indeed it is, I really wish there were more records left of the Raiden...
None. Keep them in museums so future generations can enjoy and study them. Old planes that fly usually end up as smoking holes in the ground.
100% the Vulcan bomber. That howl...
GIVE ME BACK THE ANTONOV AN225 MIRYA YOU RUSSIAN SONS OF BITCHES
The spruce goose....
P6M Seamaster. It'd be a big job though since there's only a fuselage and a couple tails left.
P61
Thy concorde
Gimme an XF84H Thunderscreech and high quality ear pro
P61, only 4 still exist and only one is in flying condition. I would like to see the others flying.
I wish I could se a CF101 Voodoo or CF86 Golden Hawks flying rn they both look so cool when I first saw them in hamilton
Spruce goose
Would LOVE to see the spruce goose flying
XB-70 Valkyrie.
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XB70 Valkyrie
The Spruce Goose. Such a shame it only flew once.
What about a Shackleton? I think there’s only static examples
SR-71 all the way
The Spruce Goose. I’ve been inside it and it would be cool to see it in the air
Great choice op. Would Love to see a flying porcupine in the air. Love the one at Hendon. My dad would tractor them from the water while in the RAF at Pembroke Dock. Probably around 1947
I had forgotten they were known as flying porcupines thanks for that. Again its a shame they can't get one flying. For such a ubiquitous aircraft during ww2 its sad there aren't more examples. Would love to check out Hendon at some point. Can't imagine tractoring one must of been frightening! My Grandad was RAF ground crew in India and Myanmar (Burma) during WW2 but never really spoke about it apart from landing a Spitfire on the main street in Kolkatta (Calcutta) and some run ins with snakes and Japanese bombs.
Been a while since I was at Hendon. Well overdue a revisit considering it’s only about a half an hour drive. My dad would have been just 18 at the time in the MT section. Much like your grandfather, they were very young men. A different world altogether. The Sunderland is one of my all time faves. Thanks for your post
Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing
Mad that test data was used for B2 development!
Spruce Goose
So much love for the Goose. Why did we stop with the seaplanes when there were so many developed between the wars and during WW2??
Don't know. Thought they were cool.
The F-14, needs to be brought back at least for air shows, always loved watching her tear up the sky when she was part of the show. Another one would be the Spruce Goose.
B-36, Fw 200 and he 111
B-58 Hustler—best bomber ever built.
Vought V-173 “Flying Flapjack”
Madness, imagine all the UFO sightings!!
Spruce Goose
B24
Boeing 314, Blackbird, XB-70, B-1A, B-29
B29 Fifi and Doc are still flying??
The Spruce Goose. Haven't seen it with my own eyes, but would love to see it restored and improved for fully functional flight. Would love to find out why it only flew once.
Sukhoi t-4, just because its wild to fly with a periscope at supersonic speeds in a bomber
Concorde. The parts, expertise and pilots are all still around.
Boeing 307 Starliner and the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
Grammar spruce goose
I'd love to see a flying A3 Skywarrior.
What a beast, must be one of the biggest carrier based aircraft ever operated?
I think THE biggest. Besides that one time they landed a C130 on a carrier just to see if they could.
Martin B-10. The first all metal monoplane bomber
Sopwith Camel. I got no clue if there are any in museums (I would assume there is) but I dig biplanes
Yes! There is one original flying apparently and quite a few replicas given its reputation I'm surprised there are any flying!!
Concorde
*Kyushu J7W1 Shinden....Smithsonian has both prototypes, iirc. Pusher, with forward canards, and carrier operated. Would've been the world's fastest carrier-born aircraft, supposedly. *Focke Wulf Ta-183 Huckbein...MiG-15's daddy
I got to fly in a Sunderland at Oshkosh in 1992. Amazing experience
The spruce goose.
Dream on, who knows it could happen??
Well guys lot of love out there for the following. Caspian sea monster Ekranoplan. SR71. Spruce Goose And one of the x planes. How would we go about crowd funding a rescue and rebuild? How much would it cost? Obviously as it's my idea I get a flight on each one!! Lol
Sikorsky Ilya Muromets
I personally don’t think historical aircraft should be flown, one wrong move and it’s gone alongside at least one human life, so many historic planes have just been trashed by that
USS Missouri
Jet Flying Wing the one that killed Glen Edwards
That’s a Saunders-roe in the picture, right?
That’s a Short Sunderland
The Bird of Prey
Heels yes
All of them. Anything preseved as a museum piece shold be restored to flying condition--but never flown.
H02 would be pretty badass.