Your top 3/5/10 sexiest/deadliest/toughest looking aircraft of WW2...

[tunnelrat]

For pure sexy:

P-51B pre-Malcom Hood (LOVE the views, hate the bulging cyst look)



Re-2005 - tweren't many built, but love its lines nonetheless...



A-26 Invader - Haven't been able to fly one since the Air Warrior days... beautiful bird.



Mossie Mk Whatever - Just a fine looking ride



Bf-109F Series - Always loved em





Evokers of Deady:

FW-190A/F (Radial Engines) - Dunno if it's from watching WW2 movies as a kid, but these have always ranked up there for me



ME-262 - Nuff Said



F4U - Somethin about those gull wings....




Tough SOBs (Looking, anyway)

P-47 - It's the JUG man... but the bubble canopy kind of detracted from the burliness imho...



Ju-52 - Yeah, I know it's a transport plane... but nothing says COME AND GET PAPA BEAR like a tri-motor schoolbus with big bellybutton radiator rings, fixed landing gear, and an iron cross on the side.



Typhoon - Maybe it's the big ole' gaping like a 97 year old man intake on the front...

[ink]

Best looking I would say is the spitfires....love the lines of them.

toughest looking are the P40's with the Flying Tiger colors.


but my favorite for actually fighting in is the KI84 

[Debrody]

109
190
262
 

[titanic3]

109G and K
Me-262
B-17
Ar234
Spitfire (not the clipped wings)

Me-323 for the biggest baddest looking mfing plane.

[Guppy35]

The best combination of the sexiest/deadliest/toughest has to be the 190A Series and the Griffon Spits.

Spit XII is my favorite.  Beautiful but the clipped wings and the short Griffon tells you that unlike the Merlin Spits which are the sexiest fighters, the Griffon Spit XII doesn't want to dance with you so much as turn you in circles and beat the crap out of you.

Same applies to the 190A8.  Still says 190  but the extra bulges and armor says "I'm gonna punch you in the face'


Sexiest would be the Merlin Spits, the 109s, the Merlin Mustangs, the early 38s with the small intakes and birds like that

Toughest would be the Jugs along with the Cats and Corsair

Deadliest depends on who was flying what

[Zoney]

109K

190A8

P38L

[Shifty]

I've always thought the FW-190A was the best looking aircraft in WWII.



Followed closely by..




and

[mthrockmor]

Planes?! Forget that...noseart is where its at! Badabing baby!!

Boo

PS 190s, 109s, F6F and 51s got game too

[Banshee7]

Sexiest:
P-38G
109s
Spitfire

Deadliest:
190As
262
F4Us

Toughest:
Razorback Jugs
Hellcat
B-17G

That's my list, and I'm sticking to it.  Of course, it is a short list, but that pretty much sums it up.  In my opinion, several of those aircraft can go in all of the lists.  That's just a quick list, too.  So many planes/airframes are overlooked.

If we were to do a top three list of WW2 based on sounds, mine list would be (based on what I've heard IN PERSON, not from YouTube):
P-51 - so distinctive...absolutely love the sound of it
F4U (think I saw a -5 at Dayton...not sure what model it was)
B-17

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Josh

[Ack-Ack]

Sexiest: P-38J
Deadliest: P-38J
Toughest: P-38J

ack-ack

[Banshee7]

Sexiest: P-38J
Deadliest: P-38J
Toughest: P-38J

ack-ack

Touche!

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Josh

[mthrockmor]

Oh you 38 drivers....come on. Mix it up a little bit. If the 38 didn't exist what would it be?

Boo

[Banshee7]

Oh you 38 drivers....come on. Mix it up a little bit. If the 38 didn't exist what would it be?

Boo

A sad, sad day trying to weld two P-51s together or something like that!

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Josh

[Ack-Ack]

Oh you 38 drivers....come on. Mix it up a little bit. If the 38 didn't exist what would it be?

Boo

Why?  The P-38 is really the only WW2 plane I have any interest for.

ack-ack

[Banshee7]

Need I say more?

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Josh