Dream Plane but not a Mooney

[toto]

18 minutes ago, Canadian Gal said:

That looks like a ton of fun!

By the way - the second video is the better/longer of the two, but YouTube won’t allow embedding that one for some reason. 

[Pinecone]

On 1/26/2023 at 9:03 PM, Canadian Gal said:

Go Lancaster and have 4 .

I am NOT a bomber guy.

Fighter/Bomber YES

Mossie YES

A/B-26 yes

B-25 no, except maybe a G or H with the gun nose, especially with the 75mm cannon.

B-17/-24/29/Lancaster NO

At least not to own.  I wouldn't turn down the chance to fly them once or twice.

[Pinecone]

On 1/26/2023 at 8:59 PM, Canadian Gal said:

If I was filthy stinkin rich I would likely have 20 planes, but more realistic is 2 or 3. 

Just start a car and airplane museum.  That way you do not appear to be greedy.

[Mooney in Oz]

On 1/26/2023 at 2:37 PM, carusoam said:

I had a customer based in Mexico…

He used his Mooney to travel between factories…

Until he bought a twin jet Commander… gave his brother the Mooney!

So his brother got the better end of the deal and aircraft 

[jlunseth]

I wanna fly a Beaver or an Otter on floats. Just once. Don’t need to own one and it doesn’t matter which one. If I had to pick, then the Otter. Turboprop conversion would be nice but not necessary

[Urs_Wildermuth]

I'd love to get back flying the Antonov AN2. Was a great experience. But unfortunately i don't own an Avgas well...

After flying with limited payload, this one would be the ideal family plane.... it certainly will take your wife, teenage daughters and most of the luggage they can come up with, which makes it quite different from a Mooney .

Downside, 160-300 liters per hour fuel, 100 liter oil tank, 120 KTAS. 

Flying this thing in command was one of the highlights of my flying so far.

 

[Pinecone]

I don't have much time in an AN-2, but it is fun to fly.

Except it has the WORST harmonized controls of any airplane I have flown.

Ailerons are SUPER heavy and not very effect.  Elevator is very powerful and very light.  Rudder pedals feel like they are set in concrete, but will make it fly so you have to look out the side window to see where you are going.

I almost got to fly one from Lithuania to the US.  I actually had put together a team to fly back 5 of them.  But when the principles arrived back in Lithuanian they were not ready for the flight, and there was a deadline to get them out of the country, so they flew them to Poland and disassembled them for shipment.