What is your dream warbird?

[WBNH]

I like the lines on the original EDO OSE-1 prototype.

Maybe a SPA Panther with modified rudder and cowl, and an inline engine like Aeromomentum could fake one, though the Panther's wing mounts a bit far forward.



That's my pick for a single-seater scale "warbird"...even if it was never widely accepted into service. But to the original subject, a Dream Warbird, the PBY Catalina gets my vote.

 

[cluttonfred]

What is the SP half-track at 1:34? Is it based upon a captured French chassis?

Yes, I believe that's a 7.5-cm PaK 40 L/46 auf m.SPW S307(f) (converted French Somua MCG).

 

[Tiger Tim]

I’ll take an XP-77 myself, it was a proposed late-war emergency fighter but came with all the style and optimism of a lot of pre-war light fighters.

 

[Starflight]

Warbird as well as your "cabin ON the lake": Grumman HU-16 Albatross

 

[TXFlyGuy]

Warbird as well as your "cabin ON the lake": Grumman HU-16 Albatross

If we are going there...a P-51 Mustang, with a new C8 Corvette, plus a summer home in the Rockies.

 

[Pilot-34]

Lol I think he meant that like the Catalina the HU – 16 WOULD BE your cabin on the lake.
And your cabin at the islands and your cabin in Antarctica and your fishing boat

 

[Victor Bravo]

I'm a spoiled brat, suffering from all sorts of light colored privilege, entitlement, and snobbiness* So I want a mansion on the lake!

* true, but in a previous century

 

[delta]

As long as I'm dreaming... I'd like a scale yf-23 with a couple of PBS TJ100's.

 

[Pilot-34]

I’d like to have a PBY Catalina to see the world in .
I’d like to have an SR 71 blackbird to see the world in A DAY......

 

[Brünner]

I'm a spoiled brat, suffering from all sorts of light colored privilege, entitlement, and snobbiness* So I want a mansion on the lake!

* true, but in a previous century

I think you'll need plenty of serv - ahem! crews as well...

 

[Victor Bravo]

I think you'll need plenty of serv - ahem! crews as well...

Oh yes, those insufferable little creatures that I'm forced to tolerate in order to have my flying yacht cleaned...

 

[erkki67]

My favorite is the FFVS J22

 

[rodrocket1]

CAC Boomerang. Considering how few were made there are a number flying and several more being rebuilt.

 

[Yellowhammer]

Depends. The most dangerous weapon on a battlefield is the radio.

I disagree, A motivated U.S. Marine is the most dangerous weapon on the battle field!

 

[Victor Bravo]

I have to vote for the radio, because only it can directly cause 100 Marines to be motivated all at once, it can cause a fairly spectacular F-4 Napalm strike, it can cause five or ten SEAL's to become rather rude, it can cause one very highly accurate .50 caliber bullet to exit the barrel of a Barrett rifle nobody knew was there a moment ago, and it can "bring Hellfire down from the heavens" (courtesy of a Predator drone armed with Hellfire missiles), all within about a five minute span.

 

[Yellowhammer]

I have to vote for the radio, because only it can directly cause 100 Marines to be motivated all at once, it can cause a fairly spectacular F-4 Napalm strike, it can cause five or ten SEAL's to become rather rude, it can cause one very highly accurate .50 caliber bullet to exit the barrel of a Barrett rifle nobody knew was there a moment ago, and it can "bring Hellfire down from the heavens" (courtesy of a Predator drone armed with Hellfire missiles), all within about a five minute span.

Rah!

 

[Starflight]

Victor Bravo; as usual I'm standing on the table like Hawkeye singing " you're the tops; the tower of pizza"...lol
Pilot-34: I like "the cut of your jib". The versatility of our darling 'flying elephant' is beyond reproach...that is, except for those Cyclones leaving soot trails behind them on take-off that would make a Hercules jealous. (groan)

 

[Pilot-34]

I’ve always had to wonder who is the maniac who looked at a warehouse full of machine guns and a Hercules and thought “ those two should go together nicely“
Somewhere in the museum of stars of agriculture there should be one of those because nothing in the world can plow a field in quite the same way!

 

[Bill-Higdon]

Most Dangerous thing in the world is a New Second Lieutenant with a map and compass!

 

[Pilot-34]

Who becomes slightly more dangerous just after losing the map, specially if he is out side the compound.......