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This may be easy for some and hard for others, this question has some rules attached please read them before answering.
So here it is........

Purely hypothetically speaking, if you had an unlimited budget for obtaining, restoring and operating ONE warbird, what would it be :?:

Rule #1. ONE aircraft and ONE aircraft only, forsaking all others.

Rule #2. NO and, if, but, either, or maybe, a definative personal choice please.

Rule #3. Aircraft must exist, a restoreable known wreck, flying, in a collection (i.e NASM He 219, remember unlimited budget,you could theoretically get something they want more and trade or .............whatever), in a shed, on a pole etc. etc.

Rule #4. Assume politics do not come into this. (UNESCO, US Navy or whoever)

Rule #5. NO REPLICAS


My personal choice would be the P-61 Black Widow from the USAFM.


http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p61registry/p61-438353.html

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F8F-2. It is that simple. If you can't understand why, there is no point in explaining it! :twisted:
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I'm with Dan, Martin Model 179. B-26 Marauder :)

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Sorry guys,

I think it would be an SR-71 for me..........

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Roger Cain wrote:
Sorry guys,

I think it would be an SR-71 for me..........


Heh, but where would you put your luggage?

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I would put it where all the camera gear used to be, and since they carried drone D-21's on their back, I think a hollowed out one could carry plenty :)

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Supermarine Walrus, G-RNLI, and unlike most of the wish list items this could and let's hope WILL happen!

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Great question...would have to say the boeing P-12 on show at the Museum of Flight in Seattle...this is the epitome of pre war fighters...a perfect cross between a Pitts and a Stearman.

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