Anyone got $94 thousand ?

WHY_old

[url="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1871775187"]I want one of these[/url]

w00t....

Keyan

DOOD...

Argone

Be nice to have! But what the hell would you do with it?

Take it out for a test flight and get accidentally shot down. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/eek.gif[/img]

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Random Chaos

If you've got that money, send me some of it [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

Biggles

Hey, now that would be cool. I could buzz the spray planes over West Auckland, or the Habour Bridge at rush hour. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

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A2597

bah, anyone here been to "Osh'Kosh" there are jets, mainly russian, being sold all the time. (eil beit that this is the fist mach 2 capable one I've seen)

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Bekenn

Aye, the annual air show there is great. They have a banner around the tower:

"World's Busiest Control Tower."

The simple act of flying in has to be rather tightly controlled, with planes landing every minute or so. Just amazing.

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Mr_Bungle

It'd be fantastic, but the airways of Great Britain are far too controlled for that kind of aircraft to be allowed off the runway... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/frown.gif[/img]

Tyvar

The US has alot of empty sky, although no going supersonic, laws against it dontcha know.

Captain,Simmonds

LOL
I wanted one of those for a Long time [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

You can Buy a Mig-15 for 62,000

Mr_Bungle

The new Nissan Skyline is only around the 50k mark, as well... though a lot more fun than a jet [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

Ricobirch

[quote]Originally posted by Tyvar:
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The US has alot of empty sky, although no going supersonic, laws against it dontcha know.[/b][/quote]

IIRC you can above a certin altitude.



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Tyvar

I believe thats for military aircraft only, I dont know of any Mig 19 flyers but they may let you get away with rough transonic, but I know high speed is banned for environmental reasons, its the justification given for no transcontinental flights by the Concord.

shadow boxer

well if you have the balls,

park your plane at a coastal city, do exhaustive pre-flights and maintenance on your ancient plane and take it out over international waters...

you can 'boom' out there as much as you like

Keyan

Now it's up to 180k, and the reserve is met...

Yeah, maintenance on that thing would be a HUGE pain in the rear...not to mention a bit costly, because the parts would probably have to be imported from who knows where.

Random Chaos

Possibly even need to get black market parts...that thing must be hard to keep up.

I assume it doesn't come with air to air missiles [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

Striker

Actually, it comes with a fair amount of spare parts. Plus, the engine only has 250 hours on it.

It also comes with air-to-air missile rails too. *grins*



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Keyan

Yes...but there is no mention of the cannon being intact..I have a hunch THAT had to go before it could enter the states.

shadow boxer

these old birds are positively dangerous... some old warbirds, mustangs, sea furies, and the numerous Yaks etc have service to flight ratios of ten to one, ie ten hours under a spanner to every hour under the pilots control.

thats only compounded by the ammount of highly sophisticated avionics on board something like a milspec 1960's/70's jet.

trust me, this thing is more trouble than its worth.

nice dream but no thanks, it's a hole in the runway into which you pour money or its an exceptionally high speed coffin/cremation furnace

Tyvar

[quote]Originally posted by shadow boxer:
[b]these old birds are positively dangerous... some old warbirds, mustangs, sea furies, and the numerous Yaks etc have service to flight ratios of ten to one, ie ten hours under a spanner to every hour under the pilots control.

thats only compounded by the ammount of highly sophisticated avionics on board something like a milspec 1960's/70's jet.

trust me, this thing is more trouble than its worth.

nice dream but no thanks, it's a hole in the runway into which you pour money or its an exceptionally high speed coffin/cremation furnace[/b][/quote]

Yeah, Running a Mig-21 would be a nightmare, but I know that while the WW-II birds are not THAT expesive, depending on what your talking about.

I dont know about the Mustang or Sea Furies, but things a PBY Catalina are (realitivly) inexpensive to run, I mean more then standard light aviation, but its inline with costs of running a big twin.

There is a guy who owns both a B-25 and a B-26, and he doesnt fly the 26 at all, its a tricky aircraft, but the 25 is expensive, but still, its not as insane a cost as running any jet.