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What is the Highest dollar...

Gil T.Azell

Gil T.Azell

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.. Value thing you've operated?

Last Wednesday I got to go on a day sail on the Orca Class Link info training vessel Wolf PCT59. (Approx. value of $11.6 Mil.), they let a few of us take the helm and steer her. and not at and Idle speed.

The Orca is a class of steel-hulled patrol boats constructed by Victoria Shipyards for the Canadian Navy.
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That was a lot of fun.
 
I got to drive a fully loaded Freightliner semi-truck w/tractor trailer for a few blocks. It was awesome. Counting all of the inventory inside the trailer brought the total to about $1,000,000.
 
An RV. I took over for a friend who went in the back to sleep some. Let me tell you , it's not like on TV. In real life, the bed is kind of slick and the shaking leaves you unable to stay on the bed. I heard some calls out from the back, but I thought he was bitching like he normally would do back then. Turns out he slide off the bed and got wedged betwixt the side and the wall and couldn't get out.
 
I co-piloted a twin engine plane once. Flew the plane for an hour or so.

I'd say it was $100K+

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My friend and I rented a Ferrari California from Hertz for a day in Vegas and spent much of the driving time in bumper to bumper traffic on The Strip (but it was totally worth it). The MSRP on the 2014 model is $198,190. I just wanted to scratch that off the bucket list.

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^ Gorgeous! That must've been fun, even in a traffic jam.

Unfortunately I haven't driven anything particularly expensive or interesting.
 
My dad used to drive a Lincoln, and he let me drive it once. I was behind the wheel for approximately .008 seconds, then I stopped the car and got the hell out. I was so bloody nervous driving that damn thing. :eek:

Now he's got a '55 Chevy. I can't even LOOK at that sumbitch - I'm afraid it might bite me or something. As for driving it? Not just no, but HELL no. (It's fun to ride in though, even if it makes more noise than a tank.)
 
Radio broadcasting panel.

In 10 years I never broke one either, but I saw plenty of very expensive accidents. Coffee and panels do not mix well. :lol:
 
When I was a kid, they let me take the helm of one of these:
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She's a steamship that was built in 1906. So I guess she's pretty expensive.
 
In 2000 when my wife and I went to Vegas I asked if I could check out the cockpit of the MD-80 we were on. The stewardess said she'd ask the Captain wasn't sure if he would be okay with that. About half way into the trip, she came up and said I could go up to the cockpit and check it out. Went up there and Co-pilot told me to "hope in" to the pilots seat. He had me hold the flight yoke. It was on auto-pilot of course. But, basically I got to "fly" the plane. Got to hang up there about 30min of the flight.
 
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