Definitely a Texan II. A buddy of mine was an IP in that plane for years. I can't imagine riding around with newbie wanna-be fighter pilots for a living.
Then he moved on to something safer - the F-16 (AKA the "Lawn Dart"). Most mild mannered guy you'd ever meet, but clearly he has some stones.
Adrian_Thompson said:
oldsaw said:
In reply to aircooled :
The Whittington brothers owned Road Atlanta and laundered their drug-running profits through the track's finances. The back straight is long enough and flat enough to accommodate a variety of private aircraft.
Yup, hence the Miami Vice mention and the others. Randy Lanier also owned Road Atlanta at one point. Both Lanier and the Whittingtons deny having used RA for landing drugs there although both are totally open about the drugs and money laundering they did. As they are so open about their past I see no reason for them to lie about RA. Whittington does talk about landing at RA on the dinner with racers episode though, just not for smuggling. Randy Lanier's brother worked at Road Atlanta until he passed away a few years ago even while was doing his 27 years behind bars.
From the late 60'sthrough the early 80's my dad was an agent for Land Speed Insurors, a racetrack insurance company. His territory was large, Michigan to the east coast and south to the ohio river. He flew his airplane to many tracks and landed on them where space permitted. He flew a Beech Staggerwing at first and then got into twin Cessnas.
Anybody that flies (or flew) a Staggerwing is so full of awesome. I think I have seen exactly one in the flesh.
this one looks exactly like my dad's did, it is the first airplane that I remember flying in
Spitfire bill, he is full of awesome 2 years ago, age 75, he got his ATP in his Mitsubishi MU-2
There is a private road course in upstate NY that was built on a registered airport. It still is, main straight is the runway.
In reply to pilotbraden :
It takes big balls to fly the MU-2 as well. I salute him.
In reply to pilotbraden :
Beech Staggerwings are easily the prettiest airplanes every produced. The price these days sort of shows that...
In reply to spitfirebill :
With the proper training the mu2 is a very rewarding airplane to fly, it has great performance and is actually pretty easy to fly on one engine. I flew them for Epps aviation hauling cancelled checks for two years, it was possibly the best job that I have had.
In reply to The0retical :
Absolutely the prettiest airplane that my dad has owned. His good friend Jack owned a Spartan Executive. Those two airplanes were just damn sexy.Coincidentally Jack owned the local dirt oval and talked my dad into getting in the racetrack business.
In reply to Will :
Air National Guard had C-131s in service until 1990.