What 's plane floats your boat, or is your favorite?

For me there is little more delightful than seeing a bright red Pitts Stearman biplane going through its paces at an aerobatic show, doing Immelmans, barrel rolls, flying upside down and zooming up high, trailing white smoke,riveting to see it!!!

It was also fun to fly in a small plane over the Golden Gate Bridge, and the San Francisco skyline, down the Penilnsula and across the Bay to Hayward.
Also got the chance to fly over SF at night, that's heady stuff too

I was also fascinated by the first significant production combat jet fighter, the German ME262 www.stormbirds.com

More were destroyed on the ground and shot up than actually saw combat, as the airfields and factories were being bombed by the allied fighters in late4 1944 through April 1945, but they could outfly anything the allies could put in the air by over 150 mph, though the P51 Mustangs could get them in the corners, and flew MUCH higher when they escorted the allied bombers, so they could attack them by diving from above.

The ME 262 came into production much too late to affect the outcome of the war, and by then many were grounded for lack of fuel.

Things could have been a LOT different if they were operational in the Battle of Britain in 1940, I'd wager...

Jim

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