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Offline BoilerDown

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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #75 on: June 11, 2009, 04:49:22 PM »
Anything with shark jaws on the nose.  Those scared me as a kid first time I saw one.
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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #76 on: June 11, 2009, 05:29:21 PM »
Cool pic..



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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #77 on: June 11, 2009, 06:47:43 PM »
Not a fighter, but still one of the best looking planes ever built.



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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #78 on: June 11, 2009, 09:26:27 PM »
You guys have it all wrong...  :D







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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #79 on: June 11, 2009, 10:40:30 PM »
Anything with shark jaws on the nose.  Those scared me as a kid first time I saw one.



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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #80 on: June 11, 2009, 10:43:30 PM »
"Now, if I had to make the choice of one fighter aircraft above all the others...it would be, without any doubt, the world's greatest propeller driven flying machine - the magnificent and immortal Spitfire."
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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #81 on: June 11, 2009, 10:46:51 PM »
Flight training..Are these guys landing or taking off? 
Well they still have their ord's.
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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #82 on: June 12, 2009, 12:34:54 AM »
So many great looking planes in this thread.. awesome!

German planes, as someone mentioned, look sinister... deadly. Very cool. 

Mossie... spit(some models).. great looking birds!

38 beautiful. A big plane that still somehow looks like it is nimble and responsive

47 also beautiful in it's unabashed  display of brute force. You can almost feel the throb of that big motor just looking at a pic.

51D. Elegant and graceful lines. Like a game thoroughbred, it just looks like it's ready to leap into the sky for some walled throttle antics.

My favorite though:  It's big, it's blue, it's an F4U!  Somehow, at  least to me, this plane pulls off the brute force of the jug while looking like it could corner on rails. And the view looking at the front, the big double wasp and the gull wings  give it that sinister look on a par with the German 109 and FW radial models. Fierce!
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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #83 on: June 12, 2009, 01:49:49 AM »




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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #84 on: June 12, 2009, 02:57:20 AM »
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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #85 on: June 12, 2009, 03:08:33 AM »
51s for me..just perfect lines!



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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #86 on: June 12, 2009, 03:09:53 AM »
good looking B
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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #87 on: June 12, 2009, 05:46:28 AM »
Always found the sleek lines of the '39 the most fetching:

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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #88 on: June 12, 2009, 06:12:17 AM »
Nice to see a consensus developing here......  :lol

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Re: Best looking planes
« Reply #89 on: June 12, 2009, 07:55:18 AM »


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