Scudrunners

What relatively rare airplanes have you people flown?

Three that come to mind for me were............

The Anson MK 5.

The MS 760.

The Grumman Turbo Goose.

I guess I'm out, I haven' even rode in anything interesting.  :(

[quote]I guess I'm out, I haven' even rode in anything interesting.  :([/quote]

If you ever get out here you can stay at my place for a few days and I can tell you about all the different airplanes I flew during my career.

The only airplane I would have given one of my nuts to fly Was the Grumman Tiger Cat, but I did get to park beside one at a airshow in France and his air display was just before mine and I got to follow him out and watched his display from the hold line at the end of the runway....it was amazing the power that fucker had,  I get a hard on just thinking about it.

And you can look at my build project in my garage....

I chose the CX 4 because it is just a neat looking airplane and it was designed by someone who knew about airplane designing.

Probably the rarest I have PIC in is a Thruxton Jackaroo, of which there are something like three remaining in the world.

That is truly a rare bird.  ;D

Fox moth is I think the rarest I've flown. 

I guess rare is relative ,

I don’t think an Anson is that rare but there are not many surviving airframes so I guess it would be considered rare .I know many guys that flew the Anson. They built 11,000 of the damn things. My grandfather flew them in both the airforce and commercial service. I have other friends that flew them commercialy. Did you fly the Anson JAW Chuck?
The Turbo Goose is what I would consider rare. The  total production of the Goose ,Mallard and Widgeon didn’t total much over 700. BCI was a great machine. To bad it was wrecked in Alaska. I have a current PPC on the Goose. Unfortunately there are only 3 flying commercialy in the world so I would consider that rare.

As far as flying boats go I would consider anyone having time on a Royal Gull to be really rare . I don’t think they built much more than 60 of those airplanes. I know Earnest Gann owned one at one point not that anyone would even know who that was anymore.

Piaggio Royal Gull.

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Retired AC pilot moved to Belize with the babysitter, and no
one else would fly it.  Had geared pusher Lyc O-480.  C of G
was out of limits with a pilot and full tanks, IIRC.

Felt like a Seabee.  Like many unusual, antique and warbird
types I have flown, there was no one to check me out, so my
first flight was solo.

Checking myself out on weird types didn't feel right at first -
it goes against all TC, FTU and airline dogma - but when there
is no one around that can fly it .... often, the people around that
claim to know something about the type, are completely wrong -
they feed you #fakenews and try to kill you, to pump up their
pitiful egos.

It is possible, but difficult, to find a human activity with more
useless bullshit and @sshole posers than aviation.  Child rearing
and offshore boat racing come to mind.

After a while, I resigned myself to being a hated, BAD MAN
by the TC and airline dogma types who screech and honk at you
that you [u]MUST get a checkout[/u] and you [u]MUST use a checklist[/u],
and I started to enjoy checking myself out on new, unusual types. 

It was fun learning about the new systems, and exploring the
new flight control response.  On my own.  That's what aviation
is, to me.

Inline, radial, turbocharged, supercharged, geared, turbine -
they are all wonderful.  And they all work the same - suck,
squeeze, bang, blow.

All airplanes that I have flown, just push air down and push air back.

Sanders ST27