1. HU-16 Albatross (a la Hemisphere Dancer)
2. Quest Kodiak (complete with landplane & amphib accessories)
3. G-V (So I can go direct Queenstown, NZ)
4. F7F TigerCat (as sexy as a P-38 but has round engines)
5. P-51D (dressed in Cripes A Mighty 3rd colors, because I can, and GP was da Man!)
6. Cessna 185 (Because all my friends have one)
7. Punkin (Because I love her so)

1) PBY-6A in stock Navy condition.
2) 1049 Super Constellation to get from here to there in style over land.
3) Bell 47 Soloy conversion.
4) 5AT Ford to play in the back country with.
5) Grumman Goose to play on the water with.
6) Boeing 314 to get from here to there in style over the water.
7) My 180 'cuz I already got it. (Like everyone else.)

That's just the short list to start with. Remember, it's about unlimited funding. I'm sure there's more.

Kenny's pretty close....
I'm gonna go with a Goose, round engines of course!!
Yep, super Connie... only thing better than a round engine is 4!!!
Storch.. show the SC guys where the bear is doing it!!
Single Otter...why waste time in a Beaver when there's an Otter there??
C46... bigger and better than a DC3!!
Ford 5AT... too much history of them around here not to have one!!
Fairchild 71... just for "knocking around in"
My Tcraft... when ya just wanna kick a tire and light a fire and go!!
Pitcairn Auto Gyro...complete with the correct Wright hanging on the front!!
JH

I would add a Pilatus Porter to the list

And a Courier to take all the friends fishing on the gravel bar!

mtv wrote:The Widgeon (if you've never flown one, you'd never opt for an Albatross)

Doesn't the Albatross require a type rating due to being > 12,500 lbs and require 2 pilots? Seems like I read that somewhere, maybe Jimmy Buffet's book.

Who needs that? Man, those Grumman amphibs really have the legacy, don't they?

You mean twenty-five drinking partners and two designated drivers, right?

YELLOWMAULE wrote:You mean twenty-five drinking partners and two designated drivers, right?

Sounds like a Corona commercial.

HU-16: Me and my bride would be the two designated drivers... A type is no big deal... just costs money, right?

8 hours (or is it inches?) bottle to throttle, right? That's what the fly rods, surfboards, jet skis and last but not least, the anchor is for!

Two more to add to the list. Just what I need, another expensive hobby.

Click here to watch Critical Mass' New Engine Test

Click here to watch Rare Bear Engine Start

These used to be available on the internet, but have since disappeared, so I resurrected them from storage on my harddrive - had to jump through a lot of hoops to get them into a presentable format.

What a wonderful sound...and ya gotta love the smoke too.