"Me & my Messerschmitt" thread

[Barklessdog]

Post a picture of yourself and your favorite aircraft, even if its the Flying Guppy!

My favorite was always the ME 262, then the Bell Airacobra (about as successful as a Gibson 20/20)

[godofthunder]

Big fan of the Me 262. My favorite is the Corsair in particular the F2Gs that Cook Cleland entered in the Thompson trophy races in the late 40's

[Tim Armstrong]

I love MOST airplanes, but I think my favorite is the humble DC-3...



Cheers, Tim

[gweimer]

Well, I can't do any Photoshopping, but these were my favorites, and the Germans certainly built a few formidable airplanes:

[HornetAMX]

My favorites from the European theater were:

De Haviland Mosquito


Junkers JU-88


And since my Dad fought in the Pacific theater my favorites are:

Grumman F6F Hellcat


Kawasaki Ki-61 Tony

[godofthunder]

The Me 163B Komet was a wild plane ! Another of my favorites.

[TBird1958]

 
 Isn't an Me 109, more like 1941 GMC 6x6, but it is owned by my band's lead singer....we may use it for our  next CD cover

 

[OldManC]

No access to Photoshop away from home, but I'll have to say this is my favorite plane:



Pure balls. 

[SKATE RAT]

i know your thinkin' "thats not a plane".....but i can make it fly!

skate or die!

[Tim Armstrong]

No access to Photoshop away from home, but I'll have to say this is my favorite plane:



Pure balls. 

The National Air and Space Museum, part of the Smithsonian, has an annex out near Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia, and a friend of mine and I went there about a month ago, and as you walk into the main building, there's an SR-71 Blackbird aimed right at you.  Man, that's a profoundly cool airplane!

Cheers, Tim

[HornetAMX]

They also have one at Lackland AFB San Antonio.  If you ever get a chance to got down there they have a lot of vintage aircraft on the parade field.

http://www.johnweeks.com/sr71/lackland.html

[gweimer]

I went to the old facility in Maryland (?) when I was in Virginia about 8 years ago.  It was right before they started work on the new facility.  Great tour - they were restoring a WWI French bomber, and had some great historic planes.  They had one of the surviving B-24 Liberators from the attack on Pearl Harbor that had gone on to be in service for several more years.  My favorite was the Swoose Goose, flown by the father of actress Swoozie Kurtz - yes, she was named after his plane.  At that time, the restoration facility was little more than a dozen or so warehouses crammed full of stuff.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

The Zep Starship!



http://en.allexperts.com/q/Led-Zeppelin-501/Zeppelin-Personal-Pics-Starship.htm

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Led-Zeppelin-501/Location.htm

http://www.laurelcanyonthebook.com/?cat=51

[Barklessdog]

If you're going modern, I too loved the SR-71, but going to Wright Paterson Air force base and seeing the huge XB-70 in person was jaw dropping.



I saw an SR-71 on the deck of the USS Intrepid in NY. It was a lot smaller than it looks in pictures, still cool, just the same.

I remember seeing a special about the SR-71 and how it leaks fuel on the ground but once airborne everything tightens up due to the high air pressure.

[Barklessdog]

Figures a starfighter took it out-
 
The plane was never really stable but made it to Mach 3.25