26 Replies to “I Want One”

  3. You wish you lived next to a guy who owned a 707? What, 7am lawn mowers not loud enough for you? I’m an air traffic controller and certainly no enviro-weenie, but even I can see the ridiculous waste in using a 60’s era 707 to play with.

  4. Kate, I see no reason for you not having one of these airplanes for yourself! You could park it in your backyard, there are lots of wide open spaces in Sask for an airstrip.
    Don’t worry about the $$, you are famous – it is only a matter of time until you are rich too!
    Your dogs will love the new digs. No more undercarriage ear spitting trips – they will be ‘over the moon’ -please post a picture of your airport once it is up and running.
    Lorne Culvert will be ‘Basset hound’ green with envy – maybe you better wait until after the next election when Sask. people will boot him out of office. Those oil revenues are just a little too tempting…

  5. There should be lot’s of room for a ‘park’ like that in Sasktchewan!!
    Did everyone check out the heated discussion re: enviro sensitivity in the comments on that site??
    Does john Travolta really tell us to reduce our GHG’s?

  7. Actually, Yukon Gold, I didn’t even think about the potential loudness of the jet next door waking me up… I can’t hear a thing anyhow. Heh… that’s a good one; didn’t see that coming, didya? 🙂
    I once watched a documentary on the (I think it was) Discovery Channel about rich American guys who import old Soviet MiGs for their personal use, for fun. Imagine that… buying a vintage Evil Empire MiG-15 or 17, refurbishing it and taking it for a nice little spin… they’re supposed to be a challenge to handle, rather like an airborne Shelby Cobra 427 SC, if ya know what I mean… not to compare the Shelby Cobra to Red Star enemy metal, but the Soviets never had anything like the Shelby Cobra anyway!

  8. OT here,but someone,anyone,please capture that photo of Dion on Bourque’s site now…if that isn’t the picture of Doofus,don’t know what is…may need it for future reference here.Good linked story from there to AGWN,re:Dion’s so-called sense of humor.

  10. Shelby Cobra 427 SC
    Do you mean an AC Cobra worked over by Carrol Shelby to include a Ford 427 candian sentinal? I don’d believe there is such a thing as the model you refer to.

  11. Someone is not very supportive of Kyoto, unless of course that plane is a hybrid or runs on hydrogen.
    The Y2Kyotoistas are sad. The Hockey Stickistas are even sadder.
    They weep for mama earth.

  14. Someone is not very supportive of Kyoto, unless of course that plane is a hybrid or runs on hydrogen.
    The Y2Kyotoistas are sad. The Hockey Stickistas are even sadder.
    They weep for mama earth.

  15. Saskratchmebum is aircraft country! And the best pilots in the world are crop dusters. You will never meet a nicer bunch of guys.
    I used to fly ultralight but it ended badly…I want to do it again too, though. Flying is addictive.

  16. Boss 429, yes.
    Caroll Shelby did indeed do what you indicated.
    http://www.supercars.net/cars/1741.html

    In 1967 Shelby had finished 31 427 competition cars. These were strictly race spec cars that were tuned to have somewhere between 400 and 500 horsepower. Unfortunately, the 31 examples was not enough to homologate the car for production endurance racing. Shelby’s only choice was to throw windscreens on the unsold cars and sell one of the most radical road-going machines. In 1967 the 427 S/C was the fastest accelerating production vehicles.

    Today, one can purchase a vehicle of such a configuration, as a sort of “new vintage”. Looks like the originals and just as much fun, I understand.

  18. I’d be perfectly happy with one of these:
    w3.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/WanakaWarbirds/Spitfires/MarkXiv/SpitfireXivBankingRightTopViewHills.jpg
    As long as the guns are hot.

  19. It’s great to live in a society where an ordinary citizen can achieve this level of wealth and success.
    Commies don’t get to do this sort of thing.
    Hooray for Vinnie.

  20. Hey, not bad for a sweat hog, although you wouldn’t catch me dead in a white leasure suit.
    just “stayin alive”.

  21. Go over to Rush and see the 28,000 sq ft digs of that guy that plans to be president, the Breck Girl, who is campaigning for the little guy. Also check out the doomsday clock in the righthand corner. Also notice how he had to clearcut many acres to built this monstrosity. Didn’t he try to campaign last time as just a poor little guy. Sort of like Chretain. It seems those that promote, protest, campaign, donate, etc to save the earth, are the biggest polluters and abusers of said earth. Gore first predicted the world had 10 years in 1993.

  22. I’d love to have a plane of my own. Anyone interested in Canadian aviation should check out this guy …
    /blogs.aviation ca/index.php/steve.php
    There’s other blogs on the site, too, but this guy has been a bush pilot for 20 years, and has some good stories, pics, and videos.

  24. Ahh, Sentinel, then you’ve got me on a technicality! By all means… live next to a 707 owner and reap the rewards. Don’t be surprised if running out to pick up a case of beer suddenly becomes a lot longer trip and a lot more expensive, though!

  25. The most radical story of an American private jet owner is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his very own Mig-29! Yup, a brand, spanking new Mig-29 from the Mig factory in Russia.
    Allen’s an aviation buff and is supposedly one helluva pilot, having flown for many years and getting all the necessary professional training and licenses up through multi-engine jet.
    The most amusing part of the Allen-getting-a-Mig-29 is that he wanted to import a Mig-29 WITH the 27 mm. cannon that’s standard with the Russian Air Force (almost wrote Red Air Force ;-). The FAA balked at that and said, OK, you can import a Mig-29 but the 27 mm cannon is a no-go. (I don’t know how that ultimately turned out but I wouldn’t be surprised if Allen got his wish. Perhaps some sort of special collector’s license, like they give to people who own actual cannons, old military tanks, etc..)
    Why would Allen want the 27 mm cannon? He didn’t say but this is my guess:
    For analogy, you or I might go out on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon with a .22 pistol or rifle and some boxes of shells to do some recreational target-plinking.
    My guess is Allen wants to do the same…but a few levels up. He lives in a mansion (maybe in one of those aviation communities near Redmond, WA Microsoft HQ. In a Mig-29, he’s literally minutes flying time from International Waters. I surmise he’d have target barges, old boats towed out there and he could fly the ultimate arcade game, flying supersonic, all sorts of radical maneuvers, AND blasting the hell out of targets in the water with his 27 mm cannon.
    Now, THAT’s conspicuous consumption that even French Kings, Russian Czars, Saudi oil princes can’t even top.

  26. “It’s great to live in a society where an ordinary citizen can achieve this level of wealth and success.
    Commies don’t get to do this sort of thing.”
    No, just Commie leaders.
    “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”

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