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    One for the bucket list


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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Thanks for posting lase interesting for sure.

    30 mins Flight for nearly £3000 would certainly empty my 'piggy bank'. Oh well one can dream.

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    If i had the money for something "frivolous", i think this would be a huge thrill, and for me, very moving.
    Just to actually be in the air in a Spitfire (or any of the warbirds actually) and to feel/imagine even the tiniest bit of what it must have been like for the young men who lived and died in them during the war, and to let the history seep in during the flight, would be quite an experience.

    I'd certainly rather do a half hour of that than lie on a hot beach for a week somewhere.
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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by farley View Post

    I'd certainly rather do a half hour of that than lie on a hot beach for a week somewhere.
    Ask if they do trips over Tobruk... you could bail out and do a bit of both.

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Ten years ago at a local air show I signed up for a 20 minute ride in a Harvard. Not quite a Spitfire but...it was a thrill nonetheless. Once aloft the pilot let me do a couple of very uncoordinated turns, plus when he took back control he did a wingover as we briefly attacked a barn down below. Very cool and it cost a bit less, about $120 CDN on my Visa card IIRC.

    Lewis documented a Tiger Moth flight here, once, as well.


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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper View Post

    Lewis documented a Tiger Moth flight here, once, as well.
    yeah.. seen that... very cool !

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Much as I love Spits the £90 for this 13 minute adventure was by far more worth it...in an older aircraft too...

    Also my house is one of the 6 in a row that just start to get obscured by the wheel at 5.45...

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Something my family all chipped in to get me this for a Christmas present as i am a pain to buy for so they thought hes got to love this, i am booked up for the summer .

    http://goactionstations.co.uk/produc...th-a-spitfire/

    I get to sit in the Spitty cockpit after also and have a chat with the pilot
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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by Basha View Post
    Something my family all chipped in to get me this for a Christmas present as i am a pain to buy for so they thought hes got to love this, i am booked up for the summer .

    http://goactionstations.co.uk/produc...th-a-spitfire/

    I get to sit in the Spitty cockpit after also and have a chat with the pilot
    Somebody sent this man eight Go Pro cameras with suction cup attachments! LOL


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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Lewis View Post
    Much as I love Spits the £90 for this 13 minute adventure was by far more worth it...in an older aircraft too...

    Also my house is one of the 6 in a row that just start to get obscured by the wheel at 5.45...

    That looks awesome Lew

    Classic wings also offer a Tiger moth experience from £129, and you get to take the controls too, http://www.classic-wings.co.uk/tiger-moth-flights/

    The best flight that I have ever done was a 30 min helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon in 2011 which was fantastic, and such an adrenaline rush, but a flight in a Spitfire has to be the ultimate, although way out of my price range right now.

    Who knows, if work picks up and I can get some overtime in between now and July, I could always incorporate a Tiger Moth flight into my trip to Duxford for Legends in July

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    I can do you £75 an hour if you want to be co-pilot, or if you want to take controls it's £150 an hour plus a deposit of £5,000 (full returnable)

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    with 2.200 Euros the P 51 is a bit cheaper.
    http://vintage.flights/

    as far as I know, no prices are known yet for the BF 109 G 12
    http://hangar10.de/news/358-bf109g12

    There is a lot to do gentlemen

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    OK OK...

    I can do £65 but I can't go any lower than that.

    ok... £50... but that my final offer. take it or leave it.

    OK

    £45

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Highseas View Post
    OK OK...

    I can do £65 but I can't go any lower than that.

    ok... £50... but that my final offer. take it or leave it.

    OK

    £45
    Actually I would really like a ride in that Spit.
    Lets just talk about the price:
    What about 500 ml of best German craftsmanship
    http://www.bierclub.net/bilder_bier/...io_Tropfen.jpg
    With 8% of alcohol this is the equivalent of 100 octane fuel!

    Oh well, I would even offer an imperial pint, because its you.

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
    Reading the fine print, I didn't see anything about dual controls, just dual seats. I would need to be able to FLY it for that price. Then again, maybe just flying in it would be thrill enough.
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    Re: One for the bucket list

    In Biggin Hill those guys are a little cheaper

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    If you wonder if they have dual control they do, they also have a mini museum in the hangar with Hurricane, Jeeps, other MK Spit and they building a 109.

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    In my opinion, if you want to experience flying an aircraft which has the 'feel' of a WWII fighter, the best bet is the T-6 Texan/Harvard.

    This was the advanced trainer for both the US and RAF throughout most of WWII. It was an aircraft which had most of the controls of a WWII front line fighter, but with a top speed of approx. 200 mph. It had very similar maneuver parameters and stall behaviour... it was designed to allow training pilots to transition.

    There are many companys which offer flights in these aircraft... usually for under $1000 U.S.

    The instructor takes the 'hero for a day' through aerobatic training.

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by DerDa View Post
    Actually I would really like a ride in that Spit.
    Lets just talk about the price:
    What about 500 ml of best German craftsmanship
    http://www.bierclub.net/bilder_bier/...io_Tropfen.jpg
    With 8% of alcohol this is the equivalent of 100 octane fuel!

    Oh well, I would even offer an imperial pint, because its you.
    I tend to run it on this when in Germany

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    It's low octane... but if you mix it with Korn.... or better still killepitsch...
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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by RAF74_Buzzsaw View Post
    In my opinion, if you want to experience flying an aircraft which has the 'feel' of a WWII fighter, the best bet is the T-6 Texan/Harvard.

    This was the advanced trainer for both the US and RAF throughout most of WWII. It was an aircraft which had most of the controls of a WWII front line fighter, but with a top speed of approx. 200 mph. It had very similar maneuver parameters and stall behaviour... it was designed to allow training pilots to transition.

    There are many companys which offer flights in these aircraft... usually for under $1000 U.S.

    The instructor takes the 'hero for a day' through aerobatic training.

    fun fact: they were used in tora tora tora as stand in's for kates.
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    Re: One for the bucket list

    [QUOTE=ATAG_Lewis;255875]Much as I love Spits the £90 for this 13 minute adventure was by far more worth it...in an older aircraft too...

    Also my house is one of the 6 in a row that just start to get obscured by the wheel at 5.45...

    ...Ha ha! I spotted Lew's House! It was the one being bombed by the JU 88....................!!!!!! LOL! Just remember, Lew'...it's all about the fun!

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Highseas View Post
    I can do you £75 an hour if you want to be co-pilot, or if you want to take controls it's £150 an hour plus a deposit of £5,000 (full returnable)

    IMG-20150307-WA0018.jpeg

    or we can go by jet

    [000049].jpg

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    You were awarded an immediate DFC after getting the 'chop' on the first sortie.

    Then you decided to spawn at Gravesend whilst everyone else spawned in at Eastchurch.........went some convoluted route across southern England........failed to catch up with your Flight........and then decided to get shot down!

    Immediate DFC recinded.

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Vampire View Post
    You were awarded an immediate DFC after getting the 'chop' on the first sortie.

    Then you decided to spawn at Gravesend whilst everyone else spawned in at Eastchurch.........went some convoluted route across southern England........failed to catch up with your Flight........and then decided to get shot down!

    Immediate DFC recinded.

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    I heroically navigated all on my todd from (admittedly my accidental spawn airfield, oopise !) from where you said you were at that moment to where I figured you should have been when I got there... and there you were... Intercepted quite spectacularly even if I do say so myself (which incidentally... I do !!).

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    You will be sending me to the naughty step along with a certain young person who will remain nameless here but Marlow knows him very well!!

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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Lewis View Post
    Much as I love Spits the £90 for this 13 minute adventure was by far more worth it...in an older aircraft too...

    Also my house is one of the 6 in a row that just start to get obscured by the wheel at 5.45...

    I did exactly the same from Goodwood a few years ago on a clear, cold October morning - could see for miles. Also had the pleasure of a good chinwag with an ex-special forces chap cleaning his Chipmunk (got to sit in that). He flew special ops troops into tricky areas in an Islander.

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    , and you get to take the controls too,
    At 8.35 you'll see the pilot in the rear waving and leaving his hands on the fuselage to show the camera that I was in control....Well, when I say 'in control'.....er...you get the idea...That was the moment I wished I had worn my dark brown trousers...
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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Lewis View Post
    At 8.35 you'll see the pilot in the rear waving and leaving his hands on the fuselage to show the camera that I was in control....Well, when I say 'in control'.....er...you get the idea...That was the moment I wished I had worn my dark brown trousers...
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    We pulled a loop over Hayling Island and was surprised how tight it was. I was bricking it before going up - made the mistake of googling tiger moth videos and ended watching a load of crashes...

    Having said that climbing out of Goodwood was fantastic and the negative worries slipped away
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    Re: One for the bucket list

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Lewis View Post
    Much as I love Spits the £90 for this 13 minute adventure was by far more worth it...in an older aircraft too...

    Also my house is one of the 6 in a row that just start to get obscured by the wheel at 5.45...

    Lew, i also remember seeing picture of you sitting in a Spit, which cost, was it 5 or 10 pounds? That in itself would be great, in that you can probably still see and feel how the cockpit felt and picture where the controls would be etc. Nice!
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    Re: One for the bucket list

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    A friend from the ARC took me for a flight in the Stearman in July 2016. A great experience both in flying and it being from the hallowed Duxford grass.
    I got a bit of hands/feet on controls plus got to steer us back along the perimeter track after landing.


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    Payment was a wipe down. Of the aircraft, just to be clear.

    A very happy
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