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Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: ZetaNine on February 08, 2008, 03:28:56 PM
sorry if this has been done...I'm new here...and I DID check what I could...

anyway:

(http://pagesperso-orange.fr/romain.g/sr71-1.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: ChickenHawk on February 08, 2008, 03:42:18 PM
(http://www.anft.net/f-14/grumman-f9f.jpg)

Yep, that's one sexy plane.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Shuffler on February 08, 2008, 03:46:12 PM
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q96/Shuff_photos/400x27920P-38.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: DYNAMITE on February 08, 2008, 03:49:25 PM
(http://www.zap16.com/Duxford%202007/IMGP5377%20Dux07%20North%20American%20F-86A%20Saber%20FU-178.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: indy007 on February 08, 2008, 03:51:34 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/X-31_Demonstrating_High_Angle_of_Attack_-_Herbst_Maneuver.jpg/452px-X-31_Demonstrating_High_Angle_of_Attack_-_Herbst_Maneuver.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Chairboy on February 08, 2008, 03:54:36 PM
(http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/images/dynasoar_flight.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Saxman on February 08, 2008, 03:54:51 PM
(http://www.air-and-space.com/20040813%20Hawthorne/DSC_2242%20F4U-1A%20NX83782%20left%20front%20landing%20l.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Dux on February 08, 2008, 03:57:31 PM
(http://helimat.free.fr/as365_1.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: eskimo2 on February 08, 2008, 04:02:05 PM
At this moment:

(http://www.cloud9photography.us/ww1r/WWIR12_ALBATROSS_DV_PETERMANCUS.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Jappa52 on February 08, 2008, 04:05:28 PM
Favorite a/c

(http://www.edugraphics.net/gt2-aviation/posters/gt242-af.jpg)

Close, close second -

(http://www.dash2.com/images/top10/103f14s.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: trax1 on February 08, 2008, 04:15:47 PM
(http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/Aurora-SPFX.jpg)

The "Top Secret" hypersonic Aurora
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: bsdaddict on February 08, 2008, 04:16:51 PM
For sentimental reasons, since it save my Grandad's butt, I'd have to go with the Hellcat.  But, for pure sexiness, you've gotta love the Corsair.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: midnight Target on February 08, 2008, 04:21:04 PM
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee27/Tahgut/AIRSHOW005.jpg)

Just happened to get my favorite car and my favorite plane in the same shot... the pilot drove up in the Cobra.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: bsdaddict on February 08, 2008, 04:25:44 PM
This (http://www.worldwar2pilots.com/f4uudarkhog.jpg) is my destop background.  Can't find a smaller res pic and don't want to blow up the board, so I'm just posting the link...
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Sikboy on February 08, 2008, 04:26:39 PM
(http://aeroweb.lucia.it/rap/Monino/mon94ag_be12.jpg)

I don't know why, but it always seemed like a real party plane. Land it on the lake and start fishing. Stash a Keg or two in the MAD boom, and you're good to go.

-CoS
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Guppy35 on February 08, 2008, 04:28:23 PM
In AH it's the P38G

Outside of AH it's the  Spitfire XII

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/SpitXIIPair.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Jappa52 on February 08, 2008, 04:35:30 PM
Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee27/Tahgut/AIRSHOW005.jpg)

Just happened to get my favorite car and my favorite plane in the same shot... the pilot drove up in the Cobra.


geeeezz... think this guy has any fun?:confused:
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Gixer on February 08, 2008, 04:40:25 PM
MD500E

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/davest/MD500E.jpg)


...-Gixer
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: nickf620 on February 08, 2008, 04:47:47 PM
my favorite ride????

enter jessica biel
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Gman on February 08, 2008, 04:52:27 PM
Last of the gunfighters woop woop!


(http://www.keme.co.uk/~supanova/colinspictures/images/fairford_1999/d027_059b.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: bsdaddict on February 08, 2008, 05:09:04 PM
Quote
Originally posted by nickf620
my favorite ride????

enter jessica biel
:aok
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Fulmar on February 08, 2008, 05:11:52 PM
You got it.  So....ugly :p
(http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/pictures/jpg/fairey%20fulmar.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Latrobe on February 08, 2008, 05:20:07 PM
Of course, my all time favorite is the...
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/Latrobe_2006/spitfire2_1280.jpg)

I also like the...
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/Latrobe_2006/P40.jpg)

and...
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/Latrobe_2006/bf109g624hs_title.jpg)




Just not as much as the Spitfire :D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Furball on February 08, 2008, 05:22:39 PM
Actually seeing one up close and in the 'flesh', nothing says i am going to ****ing kill you like a Hawker Typhoon, IMO, even the A10 doesn't compare.  The four cannon protruding 3 feet from the wings, and that radiator - it is an absolute beast...

(http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/albums/British/hawker_typhoon_2.jpg)

As for a favourite aircraft, i don't really have one...

I do adore the Se5a

(http://www.gwdt.freeserve.co.uk/images/g-buwe_at_bd_1996_web_2.jpg)


and the Mossie

(http://z.about.com/d/militaryhistory/1/0/7/0/-/-/Mosquito.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: DiabloTX on February 08, 2008, 06:07:32 PM
(http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/FlapJackFrontAngle.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Latrobe on February 08, 2008, 06:15:05 PM
Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
(http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/FlapJackFrontAngle.jpg)


Pimp my plane? :lol
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Elfie on February 08, 2008, 06:18:25 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Jappa52
Favorite a/c

(http://www.edugraphics.net/gt2-aviation/posters/gt242-af.jpg)


The Phantom was an absolute pig to work on. Go underneath it to perform maintenance and it leaked oil, hydraulic fluid or fuel, or sometimes all 3 on you.

Otoh, it was pretty darn sexy with 24 500 lb'rs and 8 missiles loaded on it. :D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Guppy35 on February 08, 2008, 06:55:10 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Elfie
The Phantom was an absolute pig to work on. Go underneath it to perform maintenance and it leaked oil, hydraulic fluid or fuel, or sometimes all 3 on you.

Otoh, it was pretty darn sexy with 24 500 lb'rs and 8 missiles loaded on it. :D


Had that poster on my son's wall for a long time.  Back in college I used to get a chance to watch the Happy Hooligan F4D's take off from Hector field.  Talk about power.   Can't not like the Phantom :)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Elfie on February 08, 2008, 11:48:28 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Guppy35
Had that poster on my son's wall for a long time.  Back in college I used to get a chance to watch the Happy Hooligan F4D's take off from Hector field.  Talk about power.   Can't not like the Phantom :)


One of the coolest things I've ever seen involved a pair of Phantoms.

While stationed in Alaska one winter, we had some Phantoms visit us for a couple weeks. The Phantom's exhaust nozzles are angled slightly downwards and during early morning takeoffs (it was still dark) the afterburners would literally ignite the de-icing chemicals on the runways. (Well, it happened every time but it only looked really cool early in the mornings while it was still dark. :D )

The effect looked like something you would see in a cartoon or in a movie. :D

*edit* If you want to talk power, then you need to see an F-15 takeoff and go into a max climb. Very, very impressive.

When an F-15 is going to do a max climb right off the runway it will get airborne very quickly. Just as soon as the gear leave the runway they are tucked away and the F-15 maintains level flight about 10 feet or so above the runway while he gains speed. Just as the plane reaches the end of the runway the pilot will stand that bird on it's tail and climb through 30,000 feet in under a minute.
Title: Tomcats Forever Baby!
Post by: Spikes on February 08, 2008, 11:57:07 PM
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/spikesx/F14-2.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Elfie on February 08, 2008, 11:58:50 PM
Dude I don't think you tryed very hard when looking for the biggest Tomcat pic you could find. :D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Spikes on February 09, 2008, 12:01:00 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Elfie
Dude I don't think you tryed very hard when looking for the biggest Tomcat pic you could find. :D


I resized it, I don't know why it came out so big. :huh
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Elfie on February 09, 2008, 12:05:23 AM
Quote
Originally posted by SpikesX
I resized it, I don't know why it came out so big. :huh


I noticed that you resized it after I made my post, before that it was freaking huge. :D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: LePaul on February 09, 2008, 12:06:45 AM
Quote
Originally posted by DYNAMITE
(http://www.zap16.com/Duxford%202007/IMGP5377%20Dux07%20North%20American%20F-86A%20Saber%20FU-178.jpg)


(http://www.topgunphotography.net/photos/albums/Upload/NASB07/normal_NASB07_040.jpg)

More at the Link (http://www.topgunphotography.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=41&page=4)
Title: Well i have a few :)
Post by: evenhaim on February 09, 2008, 12:07:38 AM
Some of my most favorite fighter aircraft:

Desert camo pwns
Kfir
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/adamevenhaim/16083.jpg)
f16c
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/adamevenhaim/iai3.jpg)
F15I
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/adamevenhaim/iai2.jpg)
And For WW2
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/adamevenhaim/img_9410.jpg)
109 and pony come in second
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: C(Sea)Bass on February 09, 2008, 12:17:11 AM
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8061/8781sx5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
 
also very fond of

(http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9279/a1020gunui8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Because it has this...

(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1497/a10001bjp1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: RATTFINK on February 09, 2008, 01:35:17 AM
F6F

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Riverside2005/Highlights/Hellcat.jpg)


&


F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

(http://www.vf31.navy.mil/images/IMG_0409.JPG)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: RTHolmes on February 09, 2008, 05:50:34 AM
lol@furball about the typhie - something it shares with the A-10 :aok

SE5a for me too in WWI and Spit for WWII.

If you really need to do NOE porking with 20,000lb ords, instead of a Lanc how about this?

(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_Tornado_GR4_Through_Smoke_Mike_Jorgensen_lg.jpg)

:D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: chase4 on February 09, 2008, 06:23:15 AM
Beechcraft N35 bonanza V-tail (pane I am learning to fly in with my uncle)(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg213/_slider/2632.jpg)


Nice image I photoshopped a little
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg213/_slider/7267.jpg)



And Finally as we were passing through RAF Leuchars' airspace we were buzzed by this monster.
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg213/_slider/RAFC17.jpg)

Escorted by two (http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg213/_slider/754m.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Coshy on February 09, 2008, 06:29:30 AM
(http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/B-52-4.jpg)


There can be only one.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Redlegs on February 09, 2008, 07:04:40 AM
(http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/a-10-19990422-f-7910d-517.jpg)

(http://jetpix.com/wingsoffreedom/A-10_800.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Masherbrum on February 09, 2008, 08:34:39 AM
In AH:

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/6.jpg)

In RL (Don't ask me why, but it is):

(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Masherbrum/F-111C.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: C(Sea)Bass on February 09, 2008, 08:57:19 AM
My plane ID skills may be off but that looks like an F-111. Sexy Plane.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: eagl on February 09, 2008, 09:10:43 AM
For obvious reasons...

(http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/web/web_030714-F-5712B-004.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Xargos on February 09, 2008, 09:15:41 AM
(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/guns/fokker-d7.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Spikes on February 09, 2008, 09:35:55 AM
Quote
Originally posted by RATTFINK


F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

 


Hornets blow.
(http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/3017/medium/f-14tomcat-usnfinal-88.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Spikes on February 09, 2008, 09:36:39 AM
Quote
Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
My plane ID skills may be off but that looks like an F-111. Sexy Plane.


Yeah it's a 111.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: texasmom on February 09, 2008, 09:37:52 AM
a few that I can't choose from:
UH-1 (for it's usefulness)
A-10 (for everything)
spit (for it's beauty)
jug (for it's history, & my grandpa was a jug pilot)

After looking at my list again... I'd have to say the huey is tops for me.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: sluggish on February 09, 2008, 09:43:31 AM
I can't believe no one has gone here yet-(http://www.redhillairshow.co.uk/b_b_doll.jpg) Not just the 'Stang but this plane.  It takes a huge set of brass balls to paint a fighter like this.  Hats off to John Landers.

Civil-(http://selair.selkirk.bc.ca/aerodynamics1/Appendix/Aircraft/Graphics/LANCAIR.JPG) I'd love to build one of these some day...
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: C(Sea)Bass on February 09, 2008, 09:44:34 AM
Quote
Originally posted by SpikesX
Hornettes blow.


thats better
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Masherbrum on February 09, 2008, 10:31:37 AM
Quote
Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
My plane ID skills may be off but that looks like an F-111. Sexy Plane.
They're not off.   :cool:
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: croduh on February 09, 2008, 12:14:17 PM
I can't make my mind over these three:

(http://www.geocities.com/spacetransport/pix/tu160-6.jpg)

(http://www.africaninspace.com/images/gallery/4439.jpg)

(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/448/mig21165crw3195go3.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: lengro on February 09, 2008, 12:27:24 PM
One of my favorites:

(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee35/lengro/su27.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Fulmar on February 09, 2008, 12:33:50 PM
Mig 21s are sooo ugly.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: eagl on February 09, 2008, 12:37:28 PM
Mig-21 is nothing but a lame Soviet copy of an F-16.  Same size, same mission, similar performance...

:huh
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: lengro on February 09, 2008, 12:44:11 PM
Quote
Originally posted by eagl
Mig-21 is nothing but a lame Soviet copy of an F-16.  Same size, same mission, similar performance...

:huh


MIG-21 flew some 20 years before F-16
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: eagl on February 09, 2008, 12:48:46 PM
:rofl

Hooked one on the first cast!
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: lengro on February 09, 2008, 12:55:57 PM
Quote
Originally posted by eagl
:rofl

Hooked one on the first cast!


Nope - you still looks clueless :aok
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Bronk on February 09, 2008, 12:57:49 PM
Quote
Originally posted by lengro
Nope - you still looks clueless :aok

LMAO Yea eagl doesn't know mil AC.:rolleyes:
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: moot on February 09, 2008, 12:58:06 PM
Lengro do you know who you're talking to?

I bet eagl has a nice **** eating grin everytime someone asks that question for him :D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: lengro on February 09, 2008, 01:00:17 PM
Quote
Originally posted by moot
Lengro do you know who you're talking to?


I have no idea - cool I apperantly was caught twice.... wtg me :)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: moot on February 09, 2008, 01:03:34 PM
Eagl's a jet fighter dweeb of professional proportions.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: ZetaNine on February 09, 2008, 04:56:11 PM
yep yep....gotta love the warthog...my second fav for sure....

that said......I'm STUNNED to see nobody mentioned the corsair.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 09, 2008, 05:11:42 PM
All my favorites are in this video clip
The first 3 in particular

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/early-flight-silent-footage-p1.php (http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/early-flight-silent-footage-p1.php)

;)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: lutrel on February 09, 2008, 05:51:17 PM
During my 24 years in the USAF I was lucky enough to wrench on these aircraft at one time or another;  B-52G, D and H models, KC-135A and Q models, FB-111B, C-130A, H, NC, and V models,  A-7, F-16, F-15, A-10, TR-1 (U-2), SR-71, UH-1H, CH-53, F-4H, OV-10, F-101, B-2, F-117.  

I was also able to work on these aircraft as a volunteer for air shows and over hauls; B-17(assisted in the over haul of  the original Memphis Bell in 1988), P-51, and a P-47.

I actually had the chance to sit in the nose of the Memphis Bell one night, after a long day of work, during the over haul we did on her, and drink a beer while looking at the stars through the Plexiglas.  Call me melodramatic, but I couldn't help but get goose bumps thinking about the history I was sitting in.

As far as a favorite; that's tough, but I'm partial to my Boeing aircraft, in particular the B-52.  The most fun to fly around in to me, was the UH-1H; had some great times flying in the hueys.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Rino on February 09, 2008, 07:20:00 PM
Quote
Originally posted by lutrel
During my 24 years in the USAF I was lucky enough to wrench on these aircraft at one time or another;  B-52G, D and H models, KC-135A and Q models, FB-111B, C-130A, H, NC, and V models,  A-7, F-16, F-15, A-10, TR-1 (U-2), SR-71, UH-1H, CH-53, F-4H, OV-10, F-101, B-2, F-117.  

I was also able to work on these aircraft as a volunteer for air shows and over hauls; B-17(assisted in the over haul of  the original Memphis Bell in 1988), P-51, and a P-47.

I actually had the chance to sit in the nose of the Memphis Bell one night, after a long day of work, during the over haul we did on her, and drink a beer while looking at the stars through the Plexiglas.  Call me melodramatic, but I couldn't help but get goose bumps thinking about the history I was sitting in.

As far as a favorite; that's tough, but I'm partial to my Boeing aircraft, in particular the B-52.  The most fun to fly around in to me, was the UH-1H; had some great times flying in the hueys.


     What is an F-4H?
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Rino on February 09, 2008, 07:23:37 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Dux
(http://helimat.free.fr/as365_1.jpg)



Man I hate fueling those things..they love to spit fuel back from the fueling
port even when the level is no where close to full.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: midnight Target on February 09, 2008, 07:23:54 PM
A quick Google told me the F4H was the original designation of the F-4 like the one in your avatar.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Rino on February 09, 2008, 07:28:09 PM
Quote
Originally posted by eskimo2
At this moment:

(http://www.cloud9photography.us/ww1r/WWIR12_ALBATROSS_DV_PETERMANCUS.jpg)


If you want to see a 1-1 scale Albatross..Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck
NY has a beauty.  Think the link is http://www.oldrhinebeck.org or a close
relative :)

(http://wwi-cookup.com/albatros/museum/rhinebeck_cr003.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Rino on February 09, 2008, 07:33:25 PM
Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
A quick Google told me the F4H was the original designation of the F-4 like the one in your avatar.


As far as I know, the G model was the last suffix used by the
USAF.  The one in my avatar is an E model, in fact one I used to work on
during the 80s.  I've not heard of the H so I'm curious.  I do think the
original was an F-110H, so maybe that's it.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Rino on February 09, 2008, 07:38:15 PM
I love the nickname of that V-Tail Beech Bonanza:

     Fork-Tailed Doctor Killer :D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: lutrel on February 09, 2008, 08:03:50 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Rino
What is an F-4H?


It's a virant called the "typo"; I fat fingered it, I meant "G" model.  I was with the 6514th Flight Test Squadron at Hill AFB and we had four G models we used to chase target drones with.  They later got involved with the QF-4E target drone mods; it broke my heart to see those beauties roll out dressed for target duty.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: BMathis on February 09, 2008, 08:12:38 PM
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/westoaksplaza/GlassairIII001.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/westoaksplaza/DadEagle2.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/westoaksplaza/RV-10031.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/westoaksplaza/Eaglehanger.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Rino on February 09, 2008, 08:20:30 PM
Quote
Originally posted by lutrel
It's a virant called the "typo"; I fat fingered it, I meant "G" model.  I was with the 6514th Flight Test Squadron at Hill AFB and we had four G models we used to chase target drones with.  They later got involved with the QF-4E target drone mods; it broke my heart to see those beauties roll out dressed for target duty.


     I was hoping I could learn something new today :D   I know exactly what
you mean about the QFs.  I began to feel very old when I started seeing
actual birds I used to work on in books :D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: sluggish on February 09, 2008, 09:20:22 PM
Quote
Originally posted by bnasty
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/westoaksplaza/GlassairIII001.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/westoaksplaza/DadEagle2.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/westoaksplaza/RV-10031.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/westoaksplaza/Eaglehanger.jpg)
Is that your Lancair?  Did you build it?
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Shaky on February 09, 2008, 10:18:58 PM
Always wanted one of these....just go hopping from one tropical paradise to another.......

(http://www.goldmonkey.com/annual/volcano.gif)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: sluggish on February 09, 2008, 10:22:23 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Shaky
Always wanted one of these....just go hopping from one tropical paradise to another.......

(http://www.goldmonkey.com/annual/volcano.gif)
I saw a program on the Discovery Channel where a couple took an old Catalina and turned it into a flying motor home.  They were planning an around-the-world trip and wanted something they could land without a runway...
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Saxman on February 09, 2008, 10:35:52 PM
(http://www.talespinhq.com/Multimedia/ScreenGrabs/01Plunder/40SeaDuck.jpg)

:D
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: DoNKeY on February 09, 2008, 10:41:50 PM
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Originally posted by Shuffler
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q96/Shuff_photos/400x27920P-38.jpg)


He speaks the truth.

donkey
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: AKIron on February 09, 2008, 10:48:02 PM
Too many to pick just one but I've always liked the idea of these:

 (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Landon-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg)

Daedalus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Raptor on February 10, 2008, 12:15:35 AM
(http://www.sfondi-gratis.org/sfondi_grandi/JLM-Navy-aircraft_F-14%20Tomcat_01.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: LePaul on February 10, 2008, 12:27:27 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Shaky
Always wanted one of these....just go hopping from one tropical paradise to another.......

(http://www.goldmonkey.com/annual/volcano.gif)


Anyone else have s flashback to that old TV show "Tales of the Gold Monkey" ?
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Xargos on February 10, 2008, 01:45:17 AM
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Originally posted by LePaul
Anyone else have s flashback to that old TV show "Tales of the Gold Monkey" ?


First thing I thought of too.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Pooh21 on February 10, 2008, 04:38:50 AM
Ju-88
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Wolfala on February 10, 2008, 04:44:58 AM
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Originally posted by Saxman
(http://www.talespinhq.com/Multimedia/ScreenGrabs/01Plunder/40SeaDuck.jpg)

:D



I miss the Sea Duck!
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: cuisinart on February 10, 2008, 05:30:42 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Raptor
(http://www.sfondi-gratis.org/sfondi_grandi/JLM-Navy-aircraft_F-14%20Tomcat_01.jpg)
teh sexxor
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: BMathis on February 10, 2008, 04:48:23 PM
Quote
Originally posted by sluggish
Is that your Lancair?  Did you build it?
It's a Glasair III, similar but not quite the same. Didn't build it.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: KgB on February 10, 2008, 06:17:11 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/N22/Il2_sturmovik.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Spikes on February 10, 2008, 06:51:32 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Saxman
(http://www.talespinhq.com/Multimedia/ScreenGrabs/01Plunder/40SeaDuck.jpg)

:D


isn't that from Tailspin the TV show?
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Jebus on February 10, 2008, 07:41:09 PM
Quote
Originally posted by SpikesX
isn't that from Tailspin the TV show?


That would be duck tails bud :aok
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Saxman on February 10, 2008, 07:43:45 PM
Nope, Spikes had it. Talespin. GREAT show.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Jebus on February 10, 2008, 07:48:42 PM
WW2

(http://www.btinternet.com/~lee_mail/P47-2.jpg)

Vietnam

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/middle/8/9/8/1325898.jpg)

Modern Day

(http://www.airextreme.de/aviexpic_9cI0xlW/tornado_lo.jpg)

and bomber

(http://www.defense-update.com/images/b-1Bdumb.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Jebus on February 10, 2008, 07:50:55 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Jebus
That would be duck tails bud :aok



I swear that looks like the plane form Duck Tail.  My bad :(
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Spikes on February 10, 2008, 07:52:49 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Saxman
Nope, Spikes had it. Talespin. GREAT show.


Cool, I guessed. ;)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on February 11, 2008, 03:50:14 PM
(http://www.stinsonflyer.com/prop/bo377-10.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Denholm on February 11, 2008, 04:12:22 PM
Can't believe nobody went this route yet!
(http://aerofavourites.nl/boe747lh.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Lufthansa_A340-600_D-AIHF.jpg/800px-Lufthansa_A340-600_D-AIHF.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: GtoRA2 on February 11, 2008, 04:37:15 PM
Quote
Originally posted by LePaul
Anyone else have s flashback to that old TV show "Tales of the Gold Monkey" ?



LOL yep, thats the first thing I thought of.  I loved that show when I was 8 or so.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: MORAY37 on February 11, 2008, 05:53:42 PM
Quote
Originally posted by eagl
Mig-21 is nothing but a lame Soviet copy of an F-16.  Same size, same mission, similar performance...

:huh


lol put the tackle box away.  Know your game.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: MORAY37 on February 11, 2008, 06:20:33 PM
(http://www.flygvapnet.mil.se/images/local/39alaska1_eng.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Bronk on February 11, 2008, 08:26:02 PM
(http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/p63-03.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Shifty on February 11, 2008, 08:53:42 PM
(http://www.f-111.net/t_no_E_files/68-0005.jpg)

I was crew chief on this exact bird from 1980-1983. She was a real pain in the a** to keep flying, but she was always my favorite.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: RTHolmes on February 12, 2008, 07:03:35 AM
hows your hearing these days shifty? ;) I used to live near RAF Upper Heyford in the 80s and photos never do justice to just how big, ugly and downright mean-looking 111s are in the air :aok
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Shaky on February 12, 2008, 07:07:15 AM
Quote
Originally posted by LePaul
Anyone else have s flashback to that old TV show "Tales of the Gold Monkey" ?


Comsidering thats what I used to search for the pic, I hope so! :lol
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: BBBB on February 12, 2008, 08:28:33 AM
The "Spad". I like all the versions, but the AD-6 is my favorite.
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q15/Kegger26/0941516.jpg)
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q15/Kegger26/1044612.jpg)
(http://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayva25bomb/va25specbomb-001b.jpg)
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m24/Jameswells26/orig5.jpg)

 Here is the back story about that "toilet bomb":
"In October 1965, CDR Clarence J. Stoddard, Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 "Paper Tiger II" from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6 millionth pound of ordinance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet!

The following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965.


I was a pilot in VA-25 on the 1965 Vietnam cruise.

The 572 was flown by CDR C. W. "Bill" Stoddard. His wingman in 577 (which was my assigned airplane) was LCDR Robin Bacon, who had a wing station mounted movie camera (the only one remaining in the fleet from WWII).

The flight was a Dixie Station strike (South Vietnam) going to the Delta. When they arrived in the target area and CDR Stoddard was reading the ordnance list to the FAC, he ended with "and one code name Sani-flush".

The FAC couldn't believe it and joined up to see it. It was dropped in a dive with LCDR Bacon flying tight wing position to film the drop. When it came off, it turned hole to the wind and almost struck his airplane. It made a great ready room movie. The FAC said that it whistled all the way down. The toilet was a damaged toilet, which was going to be thrown overboard.

One of our plane captains rescued it and the ordinance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it. Our checkers maintained a position to block the view of the air boss and the Captain while the aircraft was taxiing forward.

Just as it was being shot off, we got a 1MC message from the bridge, "What the hell was on 572's right wing?" There were a lot of jokes with air intelligence about germ warfare. I wish that we had saved the movie film.

CDR Stoddard was later killed while flying 572 in Oct 1966.
He was hit by three SAMs over Vinh. "
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Shifty on February 12, 2008, 04:33:56 PM
Quote
Originally posted by RTHolmes
hows your hearing these days shifty? ;) I used to live near RAF Upper Heyford in the 80s and photos never do justice to just how big, ugly and downright mean-looking 111s are in the air :aok


Actually not bad unless somebody is asking for money.;) You're correct the F-111 is one loud monster looking aircraft. I went to A-10s once I left Upper Heyford, that's probably what saved my hearing. I'm hoping to take my wife to visit the UK and whatever is left of RAF Upper Heyford in the next year or so. I also want to visit Oxford, Bandbury, Brackley, Towceister, and some other of my old haunts. I really love your country.:aok
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: ZetaNine on February 12, 2008, 06:28:27 PM
we used the F111's over Lybia, no?
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Shifty on February 12, 2008, 09:25:49 PM
Quote
Originally posted by ZetaNine
we used the F111's over Lybia, no?

Yes F-111Fs from RAF Lakenheath
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: SIG220 on February 12, 2008, 09:46:36 PM
In AH, nothing is better to get through enemy air defenses to bomb a critical target than the B-26 Marauder.


(http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/data/551/03e150da4c3a16f70f350a6bdd3d0169.jpg)

 
(http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/data/551/64a43c37dc501c7046d02f95a1f73948.jpg)


(http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/AZ_Skies_Links/WWII_Propellers/B-26_Propeller/B26-Frontview.jpg)


Getting a direct hit in the engine from a German 88mm AA gun, though, really sucks:


(http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/100030.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Halo on February 13, 2008, 01:14:06 AM
So many!  For sheer classic beauty, would include at least these:
P-39
Hunter
Vulcan
Piper Cub
DC-3
Catalina
Draken
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: loser on February 13, 2008, 06:00:50 AM
i changed my mind

http://ww.airliners.net/photo/Royal-Aero-Club/De-Havilland-DH-82A/0067689/M/
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: bcadoo on February 28, 2008, 10:58:54 AM
The Scooter

(http://www.militaryfactory.com/wallpaper/imgs/a4skyhawk002.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Shaky on February 28, 2008, 03:03:27 PM
Can't believe no one has posted one of the most beautiful civil airliners of all time....

(http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/Portals/0/Constellation.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Halo on February 28, 2008, 08:28:31 PM
Yeah the Connie is stunning.  But always thought it bizarre that it needed those fuel tanks at the ends of the wings.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Motherland on February 28, 2008, 08:57:58 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Focke-Wulf_Fw_190_050602-F-1234P-005.jpg)

My constant urge to commit to a fight forces me to the 109 though. Both sexy birds. :aok
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Kanth on February 28, 2008, 10:09:17 PM
(http://www.minihelicopter.net/CH54Tarhe/CH-54%20Tarhe.jpg)
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: Shaky on February 28, 2008, 11:21:15 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Halo
Yeah the Connie is stunning.  But always thought it bizarre that it needed those fuel tanks at the ends of the wings.


The 109 gallon tip tanks were optional on the Super Contellations.
Title: All Time Favorite Aircraft
Post by: ghi on February 29, 2008, 01:23:29 AM
(http://www.bestrussiantour.com/mig-25.jpg)