https://www.proxibid.com/F100-Super-Sabre-Fighter-Jet-N417FS-See-Description/lotInformation/55962622
Good news: They have two of those for sale, so you can have a parts plane!
I would totally love to drag something like that in the back field for my boys to play in. (Well as long as the ejector seat rockets were removed first)
The Hun!
wae said:Good news: They have two of those for sale, so you can have a parts plane!
Or a Dogfight!
somebody somewhere needs to buy one or both of those... just so we have good references (and/or cockpit interiors) for whenever the rights to "Bury Us Upside Down" are optioned and their story makes its way to a feature-length treatment
In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :
Misties.
Oh man that looks like fun.
That said, I watched a 2 hour documentary on the F100 on Amazon the other day. Apparently, it eliminated a lot of young/inexperienced pilots. It had some particularly wicked stall characteristics which cost a number of pilots their lives early on. They interviewed one of the pilots from one of the early adopter squadrons, who, IIRC, lost two or three pilots FROM HIS FLIGHT in the first few months. Soooooo . . . thanks, but no thanks.
Current bid is $.04. I still cant afford it. Can you imaging the FAA red tape to get that back in the air.
Toyman01 (Moderately Supportive Dude) said:Current bid is $.04. I still cant afford it. Can you imaging the FAA red tape to get that back in the air.
It has doubled in cost since i posted it.
I can fly a god damned dump truck, but it would be tricky to get the guy trained up to get my nose gear in the back of his truck before i lost elevator authority.
Hmmmmm..... Get crushed underwater while drowning OR hit the ground at terminal velocity as a fiery ball? Too close to call.
In reply to 914Driver :
As long as you hit the ground moving fast enough, you won't even feel the fire. Pick the plane. (At last check, it's even cheaper!)
Weren't F100s the aircraft where they could deliver a nuclear payload but couldn't outrun the shockwave because of the altitude they were delivering the strike at?
If they were, the pilots would "pitch" the weapon, as they were turning back, at the airframe limits then use all their fuel to get sort of far enough away and bail out.
I guess if you could survive learning to fly one that might be the least dangerous part of the job.
Ran when parked.
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