The following article is from Flying’s May 2013 issue.
My pilot certificate has some eclectic type ratings — a Lockheed 18 Lodestar, the Fairchild Swearingen SA-227 (Metroliner or San Antonio Stovepipe), the Douglas DC-3 and then there’s that commercial hot air balloon thing. But I gotta tell you, the most exotic flying machine, the one that makes me feel most like an aviator, is the Lockheed Lodestar. And, hands-down, it’s the one I’d most love to fly again.
