flightsimer wrote:
Convair would be the best of them all, however, I do not believe any of them listed will legally be able to, at least in the US, as there currently are none involved in the program and it is currently closed to new aircraft types. The only planes that can be added to the ride program are aircraft types that are already flying within the program. Was the TWA Connine involved with the ride program? If so, the EC-121 might be able to piggy back on it.
I had been eyeing up a C-131 for our museum a few years ago as it would have been an easy plane for us to maintain as we have people who worked on them in the airlines as well as them being R-2800 powered. However, the one I was watching went to the museum in Australia, though it is still in the US.
I think out of all of them, the C-119 is the least likely. While large, I felt claustrophobic in the back of it compared to our C-123, but that may have been due to the lack of light compared to our big windows in the 123.
If you wanna go for "Experience" I would change my vote from the C-131 to the C-123. We have the all the original seats in our plane down the sides, which totals 22 I believe, and we have some if not all of the center rows in storage which would bring us up to 60 (if we have them all). We have nice big windows plus the ramp, though the FAA would never go for any type of passenger flight with the ramp or rear paradoors open.
I'd paid for a ride in the 123. Im saddened to hear of the rules closing any further aircraft types to give rides. this country just sucks anymore. Land of the free suppressed by law after law.
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