What Would You Prefer to Fly?

Published by: AircraftOwner Online on 17th May 2011 | View all blogs by AircraftOwner Online

This week we ask: If you had your choice what would you choose to fly most often:
bi-plane, high wing or low wing? Sound off below.

Comments

8 Comments

by paul schumacher 1 year ago

low wing my tiger
by Steven Roth 1 year ago

Bi-plane, although any antique or vintage airplane would be my preference. One of my airplanes is a 1935 Fairchild 22 Parasol, so technically it is a high wing but is open cockpit. My other airplane is a 1946 Globe Swift (low wing). My wife has a 1957 Cessna 172 and I enjoy flying it also.
by Roger Gomoll 1 year ago

Biplane. I love our Travel Air. But whenever I'm sitting in an Airbus, I'm thinking that if I had that 200mph homebuilt, I could bypass the TSA and the long lines at the airport...
by Martin Weiss 1 year ago

I guess I, like Steven, am blessed by an embarrassment of choices. I own and regularly fly a Cirrus SR22. I also have a J-3 Cub and a Fleet Finch 16B. I fly the Cirrus more than both the Cub or the biplane but enjoy all three - depends on the "mission" I guess. The question was "choose" to fly not "wish" to fly. Hell, I had depositions in Rochester a few months back and the scenery on the way out was beautiful! I would have loved to have chugged over in the Cub, down low over the Finger Lakes, etc., but i needed to get there and back in the same day, hence the Cirrus was, and will remain my plane of necessity. Taking a kid on a Young Eagles flight, or just going up on a cool summer morning? Nothing beats the Cub. Heading to a fly-in, airport restaurant or local air show? Noting beats the "celebrity" status attendant to climbing out of a biplane...damn. I AM lucky!
by Michael Friedman 1 year ago

Of course Biplanes are sexy and I'd fly go for that in a heartbeat. But, overall, I think low winged planes are better than high winged planes for most situations. In particular, being able to see where you are turning to in the pattern I consider a huge safety concern.
by Bruce McElhoe 1 year ago

There was a time when I wanted to fly fast (and faster) and in all kinds of weather. Now that I have experienced my old bi-plane, I choose it nearly every time. I get so much pleasure from flying low that I actually want it to take a long time. My fast airplane sees much less use now.
by Tom Gallagher 11 months ago

The Staggerwing or the J-3 Cub.
by David Koseruba 11 months ago

Chugging along in a Cub with the door and windows open is hard to beat, but I'd have to say my real "therapy" is the little low-wing, open cockpit Flybaby. Goggles on, cruising over the trees and waving to kids on the ball field. It's a time machine. We're a blessed and lucky bunch of people here, aren't we?