Author Topic: Top 10 Aircraft of 1st 100 Years (Read 3029 times)

midnight Target · « **on:** December 20, 2003, 11:44:17 AM »

As picked by MSNBC

1. DOUGLAS DC-3
2. BOEING 707
3. BELL X-1
4. BOEING B-17
5. NORTH AMERICAN P-51
6. CURTISS JN-4 JENNY
7. MESSERSCHMITT ME-262
8. CESSNA SINGLE-ENGINE AIRCRAFT
9. BOEING B314
10. LOCKHEED SR-71

Full article Here with runner up picks.

midnight Target · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2003, 11:52:23 AM »

And then there is this article of reader reactions. Good stuff. The one plane that many felt should have made the list but didn't.

Ouaibe · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2003, 12:04:49 PM »

I find it funny that Concorde didn't make himself in. Maybe because it's not from US industry.

Wonders...

Edit : just read the article post by 'Midnight Target'. I don't agree with it but they wrote some valid points.

Monty405 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2003, 12:09:52 PM »

The 262 being the only non-american plane?

personally, i think its nearly impossible to create such a list without rejecting other important aircraft in humanities history

Tuomio · « **Reply #4 on:** December 20, 2003, 12:20:29 PM »

Bah, we all know that only Americans have developed good aircrafts.

Hristo · « **Reply #5 on:** December 20, 2003, 12:21:34 PM »

9 out of 10 are US ?

Who made that list ?

Furball · « **Reply #6 on:** December 20, 2003, 12:31:54 PM »

lol what a BS list.

hope nobody takes that seriously.

vorticon · « **Reply #7 on:** December 20, 2003, 12:48:24 PM »

lol...needed a bit of comedy...thanks

Sundiver · « **Reply #8 on:** December 20, 2003, 01:00:25 PM »

Actually I really think the SpaceShipOne should be on the list considering it went Mach1.5 on the anniversary.

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/

Krusher · « **Reply #9 on:** December 20, 2003, 02:22:50 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Ouaibe
I find it funny that Concorde didn't make himself in. Maybe because it's not from US industry.

Wonders...

Edit : just read the article post by 'Midnight Target'. I don't agree with it but they wrote some valid points.

how many concords were built?

Furball · « **Reply #10 on:** December 20, 2003, 02:27:57 PM »

how many Bell X-1's were built?

MajorDay · « **Reply #11 on:** December 20, 2003, 02:39:59 PM »

Ahhh......No F4Us nor Hellcats on that lists and now Im getting real mad!

Maniac · « **Reply #12 on:** December 20, 2003, 03:18:13 PM »

Concorde.

qts · « **Reply #13 on:** December 20, 2003, 04:24:05 PM »

The list was made for an American audience. And it's a sack of *****.

Where's Concorde? The Harrier? The Ar234? The Me 163? If you're going to include the X1, why not the Wright Flyer? And the X-1 was a rocket, not a plane. It is also a mtetter of record that German planes exceeded the sound barrier long before the X-1.

Drop the Cessna and the X1 and add the Concorde and Harrier.

The Jenny??!!?? Try the Sopwith Camel. Better would be Bleriot's monoplane.

The B314 is really reaching. If you want a flying boat, better would be the Short Sunderland, which put a stop to the U-boat menace, or the Catalina.

Sorry, but this is an "Isn't America great?" article and deserves due contempt.

Halo · « **Reply #14 on:** December 20, 2003, 04:28:49 PM »

The P-51, B-17, and B314 are the most vulnerable to challenges from this list.

Concorde was too expensive and impractical, which is why U.S. never built a supersonic airliner.

Not fair to list family like Cessna single-engine aircraft; needs to be more specific, e.g., 172 or whatever.

So, I'd chose the C-130 over the B314, the B-52 over the B-17, and the F-4U Corsair over the P-51.

Would also have to seriously consider the Bf-109, Spitfire, A-26, Mig-21, F-4 Phantom, F-16, and Learjet.