09-23-2009, 02:12 PM
Dakota wrote:
I was thinking it would be a blast to hire a private jet for a family vacation. If you could gather 10 to 12 people the per person cost may not be much more than flying commercial. I don't know.
I've often thought about this as well.
Racer X wrote:
[quote=Carnos Jax]
Yes...a Gulfstream II and a Hawker 800XP (also a T-37, but that was with the Air Force).
Isn't the T-37 a 2 seat trainer, and the Thunderbirds flew them in the 70s? (NASA has a fleet of them as well AFAIK) How does that qualify as a private jet? Just wondering? You know some guy who bought one?
It was the summer between my sophmore and junior years in college. I was pilot qualified (on the verge of getting a slot) for Undergraduate Pilot Training w/the Air Force upon graduation. Pilot candidates like me got T-37 rides during Field Training that summer (FT was @ McConnell AFB in Kansas, I went down to Vance AFB in Oklahoma for my ride). I had a lot of fun 'yanking and banking' the Tweet (my instructor was pretty liberal...and besides, you can do a lot of things in a Tweet without getting in over your head).