This is what every red-blooded American's dream driveway should look like:

[Blue_Tires]

Actually, my driveway did look something like that when I was a kid; but they were all toy versions...






http://jalopnik.com/5448071/if-jalopnik-fantasy-garage-included-planes

[Bertha Venation]

1. I like the little yellow one.

I used to want to learn to fly, until my dad's crash. Now I don't even know if I want to learn to hang glide, an idea I fell in love with on a visit to Kitty Hawk.

[MrCoffee]

2. The X-31 (bottom left hand corner) is a bad motha plane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA8QXenJzgA

[Initech]

3. America! Fuck yeah!

[Throd]

4. I'll take the Delta Dart

I remember seeing them when I was very young.

[hobbit709]

5. Blackbird for me

[Lasher]

13. The SR-71 is the most beautiful aircraft ever made.

To this day it holds the world record for the fastest air breathing manned aircraft in existence.

[Blue_Tires]

14. me, too...

it's looking a little worse for wear, but that plane probably has the best stories to tell, like burning past Gorbachev's bedroom window at full AB...

[rug]

6. Cheney must be cleaning his garage.

[rcrush]

7. I always wanted a space plane

I'm gonna live on the moon.

[hippywife]

8. Are you saying these

aren't toy versions? Coulda fooled me.

[trof]

9. Where's MY airplane?

The venerable RF-84/F THUNDERFLASH!


(Fairchild Republic) The first of the modern jets to be designed specifically for photo-reconnaissance, the Thunderflash was the first reconnaissance airplane equipped with a combination of standard aerial cameras and dicing camera for close-up photos of individual targets. It was also the first fighter-type aircraft to be equipped with the Tri-Metrogon camera which could take horizon-to-horizon pictures. Unlike the Thunderstreak, the Thunderflash had its air-intake ducts located in the wing roots rather than the nose, which was elongated and enclosed to permit installation of a sweeping variety of camera and electronic equipment. It was the first reconnaissance fighter to have a camera control system and a viewfinder for the pilot, who also acted as the cameraman. The aircraft was first tested in February 1952, and 715 of the aircraft were produced.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=2325

I flew this bird from 1964 until 1971.
"Alone, unarmed, and unafraid"
"We killum with filum."
:-)

[Blue_Tires]

16. What's the difference between the RF-84/F and the

Lockheed U-2 of the Cuban Missle Crisis fame?

Until I looked it up, I thought they were one and the same...

[ornotna]

10. That's very nice

But it's just not complete without a Tomcat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbyNc3GxMN4

[Blue_Tires]

15. i remember taking a field trip to the naval base in the 3rd or 4th grade

this was a year or two after "Top Gun" came out, and we had a chance to speak with an F-14 pilot (poor guy -- you just know after that movie came out, he was giving that same lecture to classrooms of kids like 30 times per day for 5 straight years)...

The interesting part was he must have been getting pissed off at starry-eyed kids not knowing the difference between Hollywood and reality, so he spent a good part of the Q+A period talking about the deficiencies in the F-14 design, and how compromised it was for true dogfighting (mainly because of its large size and slower agility), and stressing that the true primary use for the F-14 was the less-sexy purpose of bombing...

Funny how that's what I remember most from that day...

[kentauros]

11. No, I want my (future) driveway to look like this:

grasspave :D

[pinniped]

12. The Blackbird is the baddest mofo on the planet!

I'm going to have to build another 1:32 scale model of that aircraft.

[Blue_Tires]

17. you know The Magistrate builds models as well...

he's posted some work in past threads...

[pinniped]

20. I have a 3 model backlog.

It might take another 5-10 years to finish them.

- Bismarck
- Mercedes CLK-GTR
- Ferrari F40

[OffWithTheirHeads]

18. Sorry, gas costs too much.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. The SR71 looks like a rat-rod

compared to the pimped-out paint on the other rides.

Not everyone's driveway can look like that. I think that's Jay Leno's house.

:hi: