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2004-02-16 
Navy Jet Fighter Is for Sale on EBay
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Posted by tu3031 2004-02-16 9:37:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 ...If Mr. Landa has any smarts at all, when the Navy comes to collect its property he'll make them an offer they can't refuse - their airplane for letting him ride in one of the Angels' 2 seaters all the way through a practice session.
And if there ARE any BUFFS out there, go with the H models - faster and better mileage.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-2-16 9:41:12 AM||   2004-2-16 9:41:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 8 million in labor? That’s kinda pricey.

Putting on all the decals takes a lot of fine detail work plus a really big pair of tweezers...
Posted by Seafarious  2004-2-16 9:42:32 AM||   2004-2-16 9:42:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like it might be a good addition to the Rantburg Air Force. Anyone want to pass the hat?
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-2-16 9:45:58 AM||   2004-2-16 9:45:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Seafarious is right. And how the hell is one supposed to twist those full size parts off the trees? You'd need like twelve friends just to twist off the fuselage!
Posted by Dar  2004-2-16 9:48:47 AM||   2004-2-16 9:48:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL Dar.
I want a B-58.
Posted by Shipman 2004-2-16 10:10:37 AM||   2004-2-16 10:10:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's the auction link. It's real (at least, the auction is real)!

It's going to take more than rubber bands to hold the pieces together while the glues dries, too. I hope whoever buys it doesn't glue the canopy and wheel wells shut like I always did. How embarassing!
Posted by Dar  2004-2-16 10:22:03 AM||   2004-2-16 10:22:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Are batteries included?
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-2-16 10:24:09 AM||   2004-2-16 10:24:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 No, just the outrageous price of the jet fuel. A $1,000 a gallon! More like $900 a gallon. It's Airway robbery!
Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-16 11:48:14 AM||   2004-2-16 11:48:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Only in America can you buy a fighter jet online.:)
Posted by djohn66 2004-2-16 1:05:44 PM||   2004-2-16 1:05:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Remember the controversy not too long ago when there was a contest, and the first prize was a Harrier Jet? The guy who won tried to collect. Ended up in a really NASTY lawsuit.

Personally, I think the F/A-18 is a bit overpriced. I'd personally rather buy something that has a better glide ratio than 1:800 - and doesn't drink JP-8 faster than my teenage daughter can spend money.
Posted by Old Patriot  2004-2-16 1:19:38 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2004-2-16 1:19:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 If I were to bid, I would like to know whether the IFF still works and whether the ammunition must be purchased seperately. Is there a version of Carfax for fighter aircraft.
Posted by Super Hose  2004-2-16 4:31:59 PM||   2004-2-16 4:31:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 get a JetTrader at the 7-11, should have all the details and a polaroid of it
Posted by Frank G  2004-2-16 5:32:34 PM||   2004-2-16 5:32:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 We could ask Al-Aska Paul to give it a once-over before we bid...mebbe even take it out for a test-fly?
Posted by Seafarious  2004-2-16 5:38:56 PM||   2004-2-16 5:38:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Hmmmm maybe it's time to give this old Messerschmidt in my garage a checkup?
Posted by True German Ally 2004-2-16 8:01:47 PM||   2004-2-16 8:01:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 "old Messerschmidt in my garage"

What model?????? Lol!

Isn't this the way of the world? $28M fighter new, drive it off the lot roll it out of the hanger and the resale drops to $9M. I know it was a Blue Angels bird, so you know the maintenance was top notch - can you imagine a bird from, say Saudi Arabia, being peddled?

"And what's this '?' mark mean on each of the maint checklist lines?"
"Oh, that, the '?' indicates 'Insh'allah'... Sir? Sir, where are you going? Sir?"
Posted by .com 2004-2-16 8:13:19 PM||   2004-2-16 8:13:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Test flight will require a heavy front-end payment for fuel. Maybe we can borrow some tip-jar money from Fred....If we buy it for RB, where is it gonna be based? Wheelus? LOL!
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-2-16 8:56:27 PM||   2004-2-16 8:56:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Geez, I got half an hour in the RAAF F/A18 sim. Took off out of Sydney at dusk, flew around did few aerobatics, beat up the tower, dealt with an engine fire and got it on the ground in one piece after a single engine ILS. Nice airplane!
According to the guy who organised this you can burn a ton(yep 2200 pounds or so ) of fuel doing a 360 at low altitude.
So pass the hat and don't be stingy.
Posted by Aussie Mike 2004-2-16 9:16:25 PM||   2004-2-16 9:16:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 It's up to $25,000,000!


Landa has a pretty clean eBay record. A member since 1998, he has a 97.3 percent positive feedback from more than 400 buyers. But the Blue Angels jet is just small potatoes. Landa is also selling a new aircraft "that climbs straight up" for $10 million.
Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-2-16 10:08:24 PM||   2004-2-16 10:08:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Actually, TGA ain't all that far from the facts. As I recall, at Merrill barracks (aka Sudekaserne in Nuremburg), there were some old german weapons stored in the sub levels that we never bothered to retrieve because those levels were flooded. (I don't mean "a few feet of water" flooded, I mean "Holy Shit, where's the submarine!" flooded). Tanks, planes, all sorts of fun toys.

Germany is STILL pulling up bits and pieces that the National Socialist crew buried thinking they'd have a rainy day sometime when they'd be able to retrieve them for the "Glory of the Fourth Reich".

Fortunately, it didn't turn out that way.

Ed.
Posted by Ed Becerra 2004-2-16 10:45:37 PM||   2004-2-16 10:45:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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