If you won the lottery.............

[Nhaz]

Retire instantly. Invest some

Land. Somewhere remote. and since I live in Canada we have more remote land then you could believe. cheap too since its freaking inaccessible cept for plane.

Build a large house on a large hill.

With a lake. we have tons and tons and tons of lakes. Without jetskis I really hate those things.

Few cars. Nothing insane only 500 or so HP if you need more you need a track.

Couple of real off road trucks. Like trucks that make their own roads => Think 1940s/50s bell telephone trucks that are 6 wheel drive wheels higher then you and it planted its own poles while it rammed through the bush. Oh and have it named BRUTUS across the front. Yes a friend of mine owns one of these its rather impressive

thats the summer house!

Winter house.. somewhere in Australia. repeat of above!

 

[crbnunit]

but where I'd kill REAL money is on a couple of aircraft....

a Hawker-Beech 200CGT, a 10 seat twin turboprop, about $5million
and a Lancair Turbo-Evolution a FAST(340kt) four seat single turboprop $1million.AD

Dude! There was a freaking Mig 29 for sale of Evilbay the other day!!!

This one is for sale right now:

This one is 1.7mil.

1.8mil.

I have always wanted ah F6F Hellcat. I have never seen one in person, there were thousands built. They were responsible for more aircraft destroyed in WWII than any other and more than most combined. Must have!

Truth be told, I'd gladly take any warbird. They have a special place and I want one!

 

[Hopman]

You know, I'd like a trio of Mustangs.

One for the [air]strip:

One for the street:

And one for the yard:

 

[Ranger44]

I would have to take the P-51 or P-47. P-51 has sexier lines, though.

This one is 1.7mil.

1.8mil.

Wouldn't mind the ol FW-190......

 

[crbnunit]

The P=51 is a sexy surgical insturment. The P-47 is a hammer and just screams brute force. I have always like the FW-190's. Here are a few more for ya...

Yes sir, I could spend a lot of money in a big hurry. Surprisingly, some of the old jets are very reasonably priced compaired to the WWII stuff. I have seen Mig 15's, F-86's. F-80's, T-33's and even Mig 21's go pretty cheap. I saw a Mig 21, a supersonic fighter, go for $35K a while back. This included a flying, US certified aircraft, in anual with a hanger full of spare parts!

 

[AllanD]

If I just HAd to have a Warbird it'd be a P38, but I'd make one modification to it...

I'd swap the engines left to right to switch the way the props rotate on BOTH engines.

The way a P38 is setup BOTH engines are "critical" and if you lose an engine
(particularly on takeoff) the airplane yaws dramatically into the dead engine
then rolls inverted and flies into the ground.

It's because of something called "p-factor" the propeller rotating twards the wingtip
generates slightly more lift and if you lose engine power you lose that lift.

If I were going to have a warbird built from scratch I'd have someone build me a more or
less true replica of a WW1 Fokker D-VII but I'd have them power it with a Dodge Cummins
engine tuned to around 350hp.

as for late 50's jet fighters? Instead of an F86 I'd rather have the slightly later
improved and "navalized" version.... the FJ-4 Fury.

More power, greater range, lower landing speed....


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[Ranger Dave (B25)]

I know where there's on sitting forlornly out in front of a closed restaurant, Allan. If this thing could cry, it would. Horribly botched half-ass woodland camo paint sparyed all over and halfway up the canopy, flat tires, nose jacked way the hell up in the air by a rusty 'stand' they made for it.

I wanted to take it home when I saw it, for no other reason than to treat it with the respect it deserves.

 

[Hopman]

I know where there's on sitting forlornly out in front of a closed restaurant, Allan. If this thing could cry, it would. Horribly botched half-ass woodland camo paint sparyed all over and halfway up the canopy, flat tires, nose jacked way the hell up in the air by a rusty 'stand' they made for it.

I wanted to take it home when I saw it, for no other reason than to treat it with the respect it deserves.

Old warbirds need to be treated like the men & women who first built & flew them during WWII: With respect, honor and dignity.