Just Give Every Pilot a DC-3and We'll All Be Good To Go!

Go ahead, ask thy Twitterverse, and thy Twitterverse manifests in the affirmative.

That's what happened on Monday when I put the word out on the "street" to get some of my Tweeples to send me their "Dream Hangar" lists.

I have published my own "Dream Hangar" list each year that I've had this blog, but this year I thought that in the interest of promoting a more socially aware world, I would let the readers take over the blog and publish their top 10 lists. Most of these show the writer's favorite plane as the #1 position, however a few could not, repeat NOT, pin down a favorite.

So, without a drum roll, here are some of the best submissions:

From Mikel, a.k.a Laura Mikel Fitterman, a commercial pilot based in FL who Tweets as @mickyl, we have this great list:

AT-6 Texan

Piper L4

P-51D (of course)

Lockheed Super Constellation

Cessna 402

Stinson L5

Cessna 195

T-34

Cessna T-37

DC-3

Then there's David M. Vanderhoof's list. He's with Airplanegeeks and is Plane Crazy Down Under's Historian in Residence

BF-109E-4

BD-5J

F-117A Stealth

YB-49 Flying Wing

Citation X

KC-130F Hercules - Blue Angels' "FAT ALBERT"!!

DC-3 In Eastern Airlines markings

Lockheed 1049 Connie TWA Markings

707-320 In PAN AM Markings

T-33A Shooting Star

Paul Pilipshen's list is one heavy on military hardware, until you get to the top, when Paul wants to go have some fun upside down:

Pitts S-2C

Pitts S-1-11B

F4U Corsair

B-25 Mitchell

PBY Catalina

P-38 Lightning

F8F Bearcat

B-29 Superfortress

F-82 Twin Mustang

F4 Phantom

Adam Fast, who is known in Twitterland as @adamcanfly and offers "Regularly Scheduled Geekery" at adamfast.com, says he actually keeps a spreadsheet for that special day when his lottery numbers hit:

SR22

Stearman

Quest Kodiak

Texas Sport Cub

Extra 330L

P-51

DC-3

Helio Courier

RV of some kind

Concorde (hey, you said UNLIMITED)

Grant McHerron who is @falcon124 in Twitter sent this great list, and was the only one with a rotorwing in the Dream Hangar:

Antillies Turbo Goose

Yak-52TW

DC-3

Cessna Mustang

T-38 Talon

MD-500 Helicopter

Boeing BBJ

Income T65 X-Wing

Boeing Stearman

Two-seat sail plane (ike a modern version of the Blanik)

And there's this Dream Hanger from Jeremy Martin, Class of 2010, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

Beechcraft model 2000 StarShip

BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde

North American P51d Mustang

Lancair IV-P

Sukhoi su26m

Terrafugia Transition

Lockheed L-049 Constellation

Rockwell STS Orbiter (Space Shuttle)

Airbus A380, configured as luxury executive transport

Antonov AN-225

And Yes, I AM glad this MIT student added the Terrafugia Transition to his list. Would have been brutal had he left that off.

Next up, I will highlight a very detailed list sent in from Kent Shook, what he calls his "Lottery Fleet". It's a great read. Finally, in part three, I'll present my Dream Hanger for 2009.