Your favorite plane

[farmflyer]

My favorite that I have is actually two planes a Flyzone Corsair and a Parkzone P47. They both just seem to do what I want them to without me having to think or work at it. The one plane that would be my dream foamie would be a 50 inch Grumman Ag Cat biplane. My love of airplanes was started by watching them work while I was a small child the sound of that radial is still my favorite sound. Add a sound and smoke system it would be beautiful.

[OV10]

I'm gonna be brave here and say based upon the avatars of the respondents so far, Martin's first question of what is your favorite is somewhat rhetorical.
So now that you know what my favorite bird is, here are the reasons.
o It is a prop driven Nam era airframe
o It is a twin
o It IS a warbird
o It is designed for unimproved airstrip operation with STOL capability
o and so on.............
Even though I have a balsa/ply version of the Bronco, I would have a foamie with out hesitation because I have become more and more enamored with this build material because foam does bounce better than balsa. I have said this on other threads in the Squawk as well as on other forums that in light of the phenomenal support to the FL P-38, here is another twin warbird that actually has better ground(most important trait) and flight handling characteristics( I own both so I can make these claims) and is just begging to be done. Let's recognize another Nam era prop bird besides the Skyraider and quit remaking over and over the same old half dozen WW2 stuff. Over on the other forum they were saying FMS was coming out with a 1500mm OV-10 but the thread was closed because of possible legal/design issues. That was a huge let down so maybe FLRC can possibly pickup the slack if in fact FMS is gonna drop the ball again. That's my 'why , what and could have'...................thanks for asking Martin.
PS.....Pat, A6 is my 2nd(or 1st EDF) :)
Best regards,

[crxmanpat]

My favorite? For the past few years it's been the Freewing A-6 Intruder. I liked it even more after I got the bomb set for it. Since October 2014, it goes to the field almost every single time I go out, and gets at least 2 flights in.

However, the new Freewing Mig-21 is quickly eclipsing it as my favorite! Wow, what a plane! Still working on paint details, but should be done this weekend.

[TiredIronGRB]

My B-17s, they fly great and always draw a crowd. The planes I would like to have but don't haven't been made yet (B-24, B-29 in 2000mm).

[PappaBear]

I do love the color scheme of the "Big Beautiful doll". I have seen a full size in the UK done in these colors. It is a stunning scheme and one of my favorites too .

Martin.

[Grossman56]

Hey Martin, great question.
My all time favorite plane is my P-51D Big Beautiful Doll. She was the first plane I bought way back when and she sat until I learned to fly!
When I finally got up to that level, I took her out to the field and up she went, pretty as you please. Even when the wheel went one way and the plane another, I brought her in on one main and settled her down with no damage, scraped a bit of paint off the bottom of the strut. Last year, an aileron servo packed it in somewhere in mid flight, landed no trouble. The last flight of last season, I'd swapped out all the servos with metal geared servos and ball link connectors. Didn't set it up right and the controls were all over the place, don't ask me how!! Trimmed her up as best I could, brought her around and dropped the gear and flaps, suddenly, gentle as a kitten, great landing! Tell me that this plane was just mean to be for me.
As for which plane I'd like to add to the stable. The Flightline P 38, but with only one income now, I've got to cut back on my plane spending so it'll be quite a while before that happens. At first I wasn't sure, but once you've seen one in person and watched it fly, yep, she's a winner!!
Just got the Flightline Bearcat, actually got it for my birthday, way back in August! From the sounds of it, she will be in high regard as well.

Grossman56

[PappaBear]

Here is another little fun question for everyone. What is you favorite plane and why? What do you like so much about it? Also, if there was one plane that you could have, but don't have what would it be?

Martin.