What ever my next flight is in!!

I've been pretty lucky with DC3 and B17 time plus even a short bit of time in a C46. Flew a season in AK. My bucket list is mostly wishful thinking. Any WW2 fighter but especially Bearcat, Mustang, and Corsair. F18 would be way cool but way not likely. More attainable, I would like to fly a Carbon Cub for a bunch of hours. And yes, I know a Bearcat is not a WW2 fighter.

Svanarts,
Spirit of Carnuba was a replica, built in the late '90's to replicate a 30's flight to Fortaleza, Brazil. I think it is in a museum now.

You may be in luck though, there is an original S-38, that was languishing in a Dutch museum and was bought by Kermit Weeks for his Fantasy of Flight museum near Orlando. Cool guy, when I dropped by there a few years ago he gave me a ride in his original Fiesler Storch, so maybe, just maybe, you'll get this one off your bucket list.

BTW, here's a video of Kermit picking it up at the Dutch museum. Probably some more video of him flying it somewhere.

svanarts wrote:I'd absolutely love to fly this:


And retrace the original carnauba wax expedition.

They were in my neck of the woods a while ago. Down at Hawthorne, Nevada and Walker Lake.



Gump

My "could realistically happen" bucket list includes getting back into the RV-3. Owned one once, selling it was the stupidest thing I ever did in aviation (and that tops a lengthy list).

And finding my way back into the AS-W20 sailplane, on a strong day in the Owens Valley, is pretty high on the list too.

'far as things i haven't flown, the "daydream bucket list" would include the Bucker Jungmeister, DH Mosquito, BD-5J.

The "you just won the lottery for $50M" bucket list would be topped by the Messerschmitt 262 and 163. I know some of my dear friends on this forum would be happy to provide me with the T-Stoff with a smile

I'd love to fly a Beaver, Stinson V-77, Cessna 190/195, Beech 18, C-47, ...

I guess my list doesn't really have an end... Hahaha!

Every once in a while I post a reply to the forum and forget to mash the submit button. Apparently that's what happened the other day when I too mentioned the Bucker Jungmeister.

In that same category, which I think of as airplanes with legendary harmony in every or nearly every aspect of their design I include these:

The Pitts S2A. I flew that one, I want to do it again. Of everything I've flown this one is far and away my favorite.
Stelio Frati's two masterpieces; The Falco F8L and the SF260
A Skyote

And of course:
Any airplane I've built with my own two hands

Lucky enough to fly a SF260, or SM, a few years back. Very responsive, 180 knots and aerobatic - fuel system a bit complex.

Well built so hopefully able to withstand every day wear and tear.

Still a student pilot as too busy to finish, but flew saiplanes and HG for years. Just sold my HG last month...

#1 Geebee Model Z (all time favorite aircraft)
#2 Ryan STA or PT22 (PT22 may happen as I sold one of my mounts for one, just need to get back east)
#3 Brown B2 (I met the pilot online and got to sit in the miss los angeles replica when it was at the Hiller museum, then went for a flight in his Waco)
#4 Schleicer Ka8b (I will own one of these one day for sure)
#5 Carbon Cub in AK
#6 WWII Warbird: F4F/FM2 Wildcat (bet im the only guy to pick that one...)

#7 hopefully my first plane of my own this year! Perhaps a Stinson 108 or early 172...

Marc

This thread seems to a mix of a bucket list of "what" one wants to fly and "where" one wants to fly. My post is in the "where" category.

15 years ago, I got the thought in my head that I would like to fly around Canada. "Around" was a generic thought for a while but eventually morphed into "AROUND" Canada. Since then I have been planning and working towards circumnavigating continental Canada. This mean flying north to the Arctic Ocean near the Alaska-Yukon border and "hanging a right" and coming out on the northern shore of Quebec/Labrador. I am not planning going north around the northern islands such as Ellesmere and Baffin. That just seems a little ambitious

I had hoped to be the first to do that type of trip in an ultralight airplane but after a 2006 trip to the sub arctic (north of the Arctic Circle) in my Rotax 582 Beaver RX550, I realized that my not be so smart Time to step up the planning.

I have spent the last 5 years plans building a Zenith CH750 with this goal in mind. I have decided that the CH750 is already slow enough that I want to do it on wheels; forget the floats. It will have about a 12 hour fuel range with a Rotax 912iS fuel injected engine and will have a fully equipped panel (glass). I have about a year left on my build project and then I will start working my way up to an experience level that hopefully will see me succeed in my goal.

Obviously, the northern portion of the circumnavigation is the most challenging part. I have been in the north enough (although not that far north) to know that weather, weather, and weather is the challenge. I will be under no schedule and I will be pursuing my instrument rating, although I plan on making the trip VFR. The 750 will not be IFR certified (but will have a fully capable panel) and I suspect CH750s don't like ice Once I am flying I will be making several longer and longer trips into the north and I will be flying my wife across Canada to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, as promised, very soon after getting this pile of scrap aluminum into the air

I am not really sure that it will ever happen, but it IS a goal, and working towards it has been fun so far.

Without a doubt, New Zealand would be #1.

I think a "I'll show you the best parts of my country if you show me yours" would be a pretty good holiday exchange. Like New Zealand there are probably so many magic spots you wouldn't get to see without local knowledge.

My picks for flying.....P51 and Hughes 500, be grinning from ear to ear at the controls of each of those.

NZMaule wrote:Without a doubt, New Zealand would be #1.

I think a "I'll show you the best parts of my country if you show me yours" would be a pretty good holiday exchange. Like New Zealand there are probably so many magic spots you wouldn't get to see without local knowledge.

My picks for flying.....P51 and Hughes 500, be grinning from ear to ear at the controls of each of those.

Yes NZ for sure. Omarama in a DuoDiscus or Stemme is on my list too. My friend moved not to for from there and should have a Stemme by the time I ever can afford to visit.

Marc

Sold my husky, bought a nice 59 180. The only thing on my list is an A10 thunderbolt/warthog .....can anyone help me?

Sold my husky, bought a nice 59 180. The only thing on my list is an A10 thunderbolt/warthog .....can anyone help me?

Beaver (on floats of course), Bearcat, Sea Fury.

I've always been fascinated with the sound of BIG V-12s and massive radial engines. I'd like to fly something that makes that kind of noise some day. Perhaps I'll shell out the $2500 or so that a P-51 ride costs at Stallion-51, but not until my wallet is a little thicker.

In the near term, I do plan to get my glider rating and to get checked out in a motorglider. I think an SLSA motorglider may be in my future. I used to hang glide, and I am still fascinated with using free lift for getting my kicks when I need flying fix, but have no specific destination in mind. I've throttled my Maule back to 190 fpm sink rate and then thermaled it, but it isn't the same...

As far as bucket list destinations go, I dropped out of college for a year and went diving for treasure in Honduras. We were looking for the Atocha - that was the treasure laden vessel that Mel Fisher wound up finding off of Bermuda. We weren't even close to finding the gold, but the real treasure was my introduction to the Mosquito coast of Central America, The flights onto the crushed coral runway on Utila Island off the coast of Honduras in a DC-3 still stick with me. I'd love to return to that area in my plane for an extended vacation exploration.

GumpAir wrote:

svanarts wrote:I'd absolutely love to fly this:


And retrace the original carnauba wax expedition.

They were in my neck of the woods a while ago. Down at Hawthorne, Nevada and Walker Lake.

Gump

My first trip to Oshkosh the Spirit of Carnuba was there. Along with the single engine variant of that plane. Fell in love with both planes. There's just something about flying boats that I like.

This thing was there too:


The pilots were European but the crew was Filipino. They had flown in from the Philippines. I surprised the crew by speaking to them in Tagalog.

I'd also like to fly a PBY Catalina. Wanted one ever since I saw that Jaques Cousteau had one back in the '70s.

PBY Catalina's - used to see a few around Ephrata Washington and another couple at Nanaimo BC. Just read a Backcountry-worthy account from a Guadalcanal Wildcat pilot that ditched and was rescued by a PBY in rough seas. Its in this issue of Aviation News Journal if you can find it. Weren't the Ephrata ones what John Goodman flew in "Always"?

My own bucket list plane is an OV-10 Bronco.

If I had my druthers. I think the Caribou would be one hell of a cool plane to fly. For it's size, it does quite well in strips suited to much smaller aircraft. It would make a great aerial twin motor home with a garage door. Haven't seen one in a long time, For something a little faster, the A10 is a sexy beast. I don't think one could ever get bored of cranking and bank'in down low.

Sidewinder wrote:If I had my druthers. I think the Caribou would be one hell of a cool plane to fly.

Adding this to my list, hahaha!