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#4227946 - 02/11/16 03:27 PM For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force  
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What gets your juices flowing?
Is it carrier ops F18s, F14, A6, A7
Or is it
F16, F15, F117, B52
Or
Piper, Cessna

For me it has always been boats and planes. Thats why I fell in love with the F14...Maybe the bast beautiful bird ever. That and the Corsair.

But I LOVE the F16, F18, F14

I really have no love for the century series planes.

Just looking to see what gets you gong when it comes to aviation

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#4227948 - 02/11/16 03:29 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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The Corsair of course. wink


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#4227953 - 02/11/16 03:33 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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I really love all aspects of military aviation but I guess I'm really a ground pounder. I love flying planes like the JU-87G, IL-2, Mosquito, P-47 and the HS-129. For modern stuff I favor platforms like the KA-50, SU-25T and the A-10C.


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#4227955 - 02/11/16 03:43 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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From a simulation perspective I love naval aviation, preferably WWII. In other words I'm not happy with my sim selection these days.


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#4227963 - 02/11/16 04:00 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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Bandit4, we may be twins separated at birth. You pretty much summed up my preferences. Although some of the century series planes like the 104 or 105 are neat, I wouldn't choose to sim them.

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#4227965 - 02/11/16 04:10 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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If only a producer would produce an F4 Phantom for the DCS Collection to go with the MiGs sigh


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#4227971 - 02/11/16 04:27 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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The skyraider has always been a favorite of mine, a brute of an aircraft. Also the F-8 crusader. It's always been naval aircraft, something about flying an airplane off of a ship. Even the catapult hurricanes of WW2 I found really interesting as a kid.


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#4227973 - 02/11/16 04:29 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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I enjoy them all, from WW1 canvas deathtraps to modern jets.

If I had three wishes from the flightsim faerie though:

1.) WW2 Western Front
2.) WW2 Pacific
3.) Cold War Gone Hot set in Western Europe in the 1980s


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#4227974 - 02/11/16 04:31 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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In the sim world, I like military aircraft, especially Western cold war era aircraft. I have to admit Eastern Bloc aircraft hold little interest for me though. Also, while I like to learn about the simulated aircraft I fly, I am not at all interested in bringing up an A10 or F16 from a cold dark cockpit, which seems far too much like work for me.


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#4227975 - 02/11/16 04:32 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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I can't stand civilian aviation, bores the heck out of me...


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#4227989 - 02/11/16 05:06 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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It doesn't get much attention. But I have always loved the F-5E. Just looks like a little bad a$$. Don't know much about it's real combat record, but it looks like it would kick butt in a turning fight.

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#4227992 - 02/11/16 05:08 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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I believe Taiwan still uses the F-5E.


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#4227996 - 02/11/16 05:13 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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our Navy still uses them as aggressors, VFC-111 Sundowners
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#4228041 - 02/11/16 06:24 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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Wings with wires FTW.


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#4228049 - 02/11/16 06:32 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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Yep Dave, I see the F-5s fly overhead coming out of Miramar from time to time, and I got to see them at Yuma:



For me, my favorite airplanes are like food - it really just depends on what I'm in the mood for. I really like the F-16, but also like the WWII stuff like Mustangs, Hellcats and Corsairs. The A-10 has always been a favorite as well.


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#4228051 - 02/11/16 06:39 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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Love all military aviation. All of it.


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#4228056 - 02/11/16 06:44 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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Yeah, just- being for so long, so close to pilots (or let's say some of them) really squeeze the fun out of it. sigh


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#4228057 - 02/11/16 06:48 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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Something about a Tomcat on the deck of a carrier chained down and a nose on view. Awesome plane.

My father passed away in '86 and we would go to the cemetery in Calverton, NY and right next to it was the Grumman plant in Calverton...As I would sit there as a kid all sad and dreary F14, A6, E2 would be testing engines and doing touch and gos and flying right overhead.

After my Mom and I would visit Dad we would go over to the fence right next to the runway and watch as the planes passed feet above us and landed or took off...Ill never forget the navigator of an A6 sitting there in his orange flight suit giving us the thumbs up just as they were about to land.
Id look at the runway and wish I could get in there. Not to long ago I was driving my Jeep on that same runway as the Grumman plant is now closed it is a bunch of small businesses. Such a shame.
From that #%&*$# time in my life rose a love for aircraft that still lives today. Weird.

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#4228058 - 02/11/16 06:49 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: 531 Ghost]  
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Originally Posted By: 531 Ghost
If only a producer would produce an F4 Phantom for the DCS Collection to go with the MiGs sigh


Well, at least we had some fun flying it in USNF 97.

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PS. my vote goes to Naval Aviation.


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#4228060 - 02/11/16 07:01 PM Re: For the aviation buffs is it GA, Navy or Air Force [Re: Bandit4]  
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Perfect personal aircraft (IMO): OV10 Bronco

Fast...it'll get you where you want to go about as quick as anything short of jet propulsion.
Maneuverable...you can have fun getting there.
Great visibility...after all, what's the point of doing 200-300 kts at 10,000 ft unless you can see the world going by?
Without all the military comm gear it's got lots of room for luggage, etc. Might even be able to put a motorcycle in the bay, I'm not sure exactly how big it is.

If I ever hit the lottery, that's the plane I'd like to buy. If there were any available. Which there probably aren't and won't be. But that's ok because I'd have to hit the lottery first, anyway.


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