If Money Were No Object...

[Jabo]

...which warbird would you have?

 

Here's my choice and no surprise to anyone

 

[delta7]

 

 

I could keep it in my back garden as it doesnt need a runway

 

if only prop jobs allowed then

 

[FoolTrottel]

 

As roomy  as a Swordfish, so you could still take some friends up, yet travel a bit faster  ... 

[Snacko]

Mig-17, because it would fit in a 3 car garage and takeoff down my street. 

 

Plus it's kind of the sports car of aircraft.

 

[fruitbat]

de Havilland Hornet.

Best looking prop plane ever made imo.

Fastest wooden aircraft ever made, and the second quickest twin ever made after the Do335 at 472 mph (760 km/h).

4 20mm Hispano Mk V's, excellent visibility all around,

Laminar flow profile wings as in the Mustang and Tempest.

2 engines, the slimline merlin handed 130 & 131, each with 2030hp.

The Hornet used "slimline" Rolls-Royce Merlin engines with engine ancillaries repositioned to minimise frontal area and drag. It was unusual for a British design in having propellers that rotated in opposite directions; the two engine crankshafts rotated the same direction, but the Merlin 131 added an idler gear to reverse its propellor's rotation (to clockwise, viewed from the front).^[2] This cancelled the torque effect of two propellers turning in the same direction that had affected earlier designs (such as the Mosquito). ^{[N 1]} It also reduced adverse yaw caused by aileron trim corrections and generally provided more stable and predictable behaviour in flight. De Havilland tried props that rotated outward at the tops of their arcs (as in the P-38 Lightning),^[5] but this configuration blanketed the fin and reduced rudder effectiveness at low speeds, compromising ground handling; on production Hornets the conventionally rotating Merlin 130 was on the port wing with the Merlin 131 on the starboard.^[6]

The pinnacle of twin engine prop plane design

[DD_Arthur]

I wouldn't mind one of these to go with my Provost and Swordfish.

[gec]

Dora is mine choice. 

[fruitbat]

Dora is mine choice. 

 

Soon, well kind off, lol,

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=1734334#post1734334

[Tonar]

F6F Hellcat

 

 

[DD_Fenrir]

Well, I've thinned it down to these...

[DD_Bongodriver]

As long as the spare change still allowed me to buy my Spitfire and Sea Fury I want one of these....

 

[Jabo]

@ Fenrir - decisions, decisions.

 

@ Bongo - Is that the 'super' corsair? or the regular?

 

As far as the jets are concerned, the my choice once again is simples;

 

 

Tip vortices? from the Vulcan? OMG

[DD_Bongodriver]

It's the F2G super corsair with a massive 4 bank radial monster.

 

[Kira]

Money's no object?  How about space?  Simple answer: One of each.  By the way, if money's no object, why not buy your friends some, too?

 

FW-190A8                                                                  P-38 Lightning (J,K,L)                                  A-1 Skyraider (H,J)

 

 

+1 for the F2G Super Corsair!

 

Won't get into the post WWII stuff... Okay, yes I will!

 

A-4 Skyhawk (yes, all of them!)                             F-4 Phantom II (B,E,G,J)                                                                      F-14 Tomcat (A,B,D, SuperTomcat 21 [wishful thinking])

 

 

AH-1 (F,G) [That's an S in the picture, I think.  Canopy frame is definitely late] and OH-6A                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

UH-1 (N)

 

 

AC-130J, KC-130, C130 to get all the spare parts and fuel there... and protect it all from those who would haul off with it given half a chance!

 

 

 

By the way, anyone, in looking through pictures to post on this thread, note just how many pictures are incorrectly labeled?  Sad, but not surprising.