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Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Hajo on January 29, 2004, 12:08:33 AM
I know we all have our favorite rides.  And just like some men prefer Blondes over Brunettes...opinions vary on looks of aircraft also.  So...my selections below.

Best Looking Fighters or WW2:  I have two...Spitfire and the P40. Both are pleasing to the eye.  And when one first sees the P40 it is immediately identified as a fighter.  Nothing wears the Sharkmouth better then the P40.  Which by the way was made until 1944!  Flew in every Theater of Combat.

Best Looking Medium Bomber:  Ju88  I know I know looks like a Greenhouse...but to my eye the most pleasing.

Best Looking Heavy Bomber:  Hands down  B17...no contest.

OK  ...flame away and question my eyesight!  ;)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Estes on January 29, 2004, 12:28:29 AM
C202 -  It's cute and fund
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: B17Skull12 on January 29, 2004, 12:39:03 AM
('''\(o,O)/''')
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Cooley on January 29, 2004, 01:02:55 AM
Hmmm,  this like having to pick out the best lookin babe from a "Girls Gone Wild" video, they all look good :cool:

I like twins..

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_147_1075360164.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Steve on January 29, 2004, 01:05:45 AM
nuttin looks as good as my pretty pony.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Guppy35 on January 29, 2004, 01:12:21 AM
Nothing prettier then a Clipped wing Spit XII :)

Marauder or the Mossie for the Medium

B17 for the heavy.

Dan/Slack


(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_169_1075360218.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Widewing on January 29, 2004, 01:33:56 AM
(http://p-38online.com/p38s5.jpg)


Widewing
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 29, 2004, 02:36:27 AM
(http://www.lightboxinc.com/gallery5/messerschmitt.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Roscoroo on January 29, 2004, 02:50:22 AM
(http://www.naplak.com/modeling/Modelers/images/WilliamL/Corsair.jpg)  
AHHHHHHHHHHH Shudder shudder twitch  twitch ...... just gasmic
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Saintaw on January 29, 2004, 07:32:02 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Cooley
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_147_1075360164.jpg)


Eeeek, Octavius, HOW could you let those pictures leak on the intardnet!? I'm filing a divorce :mad:

PS/ to answer Hajo's question:

f6f
f6f
f6f
f6f
f6f
f6f
f6f
f6f
f6f

and...

f6f
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: ra on January 29, 2004, 08:20:17 AM
Dora.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: BUG_EAF322 on January 29, 2004, 08:40:30 AM
I always knew widewing got taste.
:aok
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Zanth on January 29, 2004, 08:47:17 AM
One of the most requested planes in the game... the P-61 Black Widow (http://www.maam.org/p61art/s-p61.jpg) Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In (http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/P-61.html)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: lasersailor184 on January 29, 2004, 08:51:38 AM
Corsair.  You can't beat the corsair.  Don't even try.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: WHATTHEHELL on January 29, 2004, 09:40:56 AM
Ki-61 or the Dora.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: SunKing on January 29, 2004, 10:42:29 AM
All catagories

(http://www.innercite.com/~sunking/bf110%20copy.gif)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: DYGCaps on January 29, 2004, 10:45:13 AM
For fighter, the P-51
For Medium, A-26 Invader
For Heavy, B-17s are ugly, B-24's rule :)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Sway on January 29, 2004, 10:51:31 AM
Grun which model 109 was that?
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Killjoy2 on January 29, 2004, 10:58:15 AM
Heavy bomber category:

(http://www.nortonfamily.net/images/bombsaway.bmp)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Furball on January 29, 2004, 12:31:47 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Sway
Grun which model 109 was that?


109G-2 'Black 6', currently in the Milestones of flight building, RAF museum, Hendon ;)

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_44_1072033202.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_44_1072033169.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_44_1072033202.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_44_1072033238.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_44_1072033274.jpg)

This one is there too

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_44_1072033401.jpg)


As For best looking aircraft:-

Fighter: Spitfire, hands down
Light bomber: Blenheim
Medium Bomber : Mossie
Heavy : B17F
Ground Attack : Typhoon (never appreciated it til i saw one for real)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Sway on January 29, 2004, 01:18:19 PM
Its beautiful! :D
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 29, 2004, 02:34:14 PM
The Messerschmitt Me210/410 "Hornisse"





   Me210  Me410 "Hornisse"  
Wingspan  16.4m (53'9.5")
Length  11.2m (36'9")  12.4m (40'8.25")  
Weights:  Empty 5,455kg (12,000 lb) 6,164kg (13,650 lb)
Max Loaded 8,117kg (17,857lb) 10,674kg (23,483lb)
Engines  2x 1,100hp Daimler-Benz DB601A 2x 1,750hp Daimler-Benz DB603A
Max. Speed 385mph (620 km/h) 387.5mph (624km/h)
Service Ceiling 10,370m
Range  2,400km (1,491 miles) 2,330km (1,448 miles)
Military Load  2x 7.92mm MG17 machine guns, 2x 20mm MG151 cannon.  2x 7.92mm MG17 machine guns, 2x MG131 machine guns, 4x 20mm MG151 cannon.




(http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~wingman/pics/me410.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 29, 2004, 02:41:57 PM
Dunno I think the teeth look pretty good on the Vader  too
(http://www.kotfsc.com/thunderbolt/graphics/a26k-1.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: 2stony on January 29, 2004, 02:46:49 PM
B-25

:aok
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Grimm on January 29, 2004, 02:50:21 PM
One plane that seems to catch everyones imagination for some reason is the PBY Catalina.   I would think that might be in the transport class/flying boat.    I dont know that it would be useful in AH but It would be on my neat to see list.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Delirium on January 29, 2004, 03:27:25 PM
P38 is great, but the lines and curves on the XP38 was superb. Built and streamlined like a race-car...

(http://p-38online.com/xp381.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Pooh21 on January 29, 2004, 03:54:12 PM
early spits look good

but the rest age like streetwalkers.


hurri is sweet,
B-17 is beautiful
Ju-88 is wunderschon


German aircraft look menacing and warlike from Do-18 and Fw-200 to fighters.

American and Soviet are functionally beautiful

Japanese are funky looking.but the paint jobs make em look good.

English build em 1 of 4 ways. Slow,Ugly, Slow and Ugly,and WTF?

ex.
1 Hurri Slow but Purty
Ugly Tempest,anticipating Boeings strangled fish look by 50 years
Slow and Ugly, any bomber
WTF? Boulten Paul Defiant, Fairy Battle, Vickers Wellesley
Title: Best of all...
Post by: g00b on January 29, 2004, 04:51:21 PM
In the jet (or any) category:

Horten 229

(http://www.luft46.com/mrart/mr229-1.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Wadke on January 29, 2004, 08:37:20 PM
(http://www.air-and-space.com/20011006%20Chino/4%2017%20P-40N%20NL85104%20right%20front%20take-off%20m.jpg)
(P-40N with teeth :D)

and...For Saintaw
(http://www.military.cz/usa/air/war/fighter/f6f/f6f_grass.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Rafe35 on January 29, 2004, 08:55:18 PM
Vought F4U-5 "Corsair"   - - Korean War 1950-1953

(http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/travelNadventure/oshkosh/OshkoshExperience_4/output/images/059.jpeg)

Goodyear F2G-2 "Super Corsair" WWII 1945

I cant copy the picture but here the link what should F2G-2 look like (http://users.skynet.be/CORSAIR-F4U-CFS2/Part_Corsair_Plane/htm/Photos_F4U_WWII/f2g-2/Corsair_f2g-2_Photos_WWII.htm)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Halo on January 29, 2004, 09:26:55 PM
P-39
A-26
B-29
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Dowding on January 30, 2004, 05:57:24 AM
Spitfire or Mossie. The Nazi-wagons were built to look ugly.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: artik on January 30, 2004, 06:30:43 AM
(http://80.70.129.161/SIP_STORAGE/files///4//254.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Duedel on January 30, 2004, 07:25:55 AM
The MIG-3 is (IMHO) THE best looking fighter:

(http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/bibl/mil/ww2/kepek/planes/pics/mig3_2.jpg)
(http://mujweb.atlas.cz/veda/airwar/muzeum/sssr/mig_03/clipart/b_01.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Ecliptik on January 30, 2004, 08:14:38 AM
(http://www.p-38online.com/p38s2.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: JB66 on January 30, 2004, 10:42:51 AM
A little off topic. I remember reading about a problems with the twin mustang, it had something to do with the pilot being so far away from the center of gravity, and excessive g forces he felt because of it.  Can anyone enlighten me on this ?
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: JB73 on January 30, 2004, 11:00:45 AM
66 !!!! long time no see!

trolling the boards are we? lol

<> bud .. you gonna fly tonight?

hows school going?
Title: JUG!
Post by: Blammo on January 30, 2004, 11:24:03 AM
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/YankeeAirMuseum2002/P47/P47BankingLeft60Degrees0930.jpg)

Nuff said :aok
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Xjazz on January 30, 2004, 11:28:01 AM
Brewster B-239 (http://hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/faf/brewster.html) :)

(http://hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/faf/brewster/bw372_13_600w.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Widewing on January 30, 2004, 11:41:10 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Xjazz
Brewster B-239 (http://hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/faf/brewster.html) :)

(http://hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/faf/brewster/bw372_13_600w.jpg)


Man, there's enough room under that glass to grow tomatos.

My regards,

Widewing
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: lasersailor184 on January 30, 2004, 12:02:42 PM
I didn't think that p51 duals were really used...


Oh yeah, that brewster is really ugly.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: frank3 on January 30, 2004, 12:24:27 PM
Lancaste |_____|
----X--X---( )---X--X----
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Sway on January 30, 2004, 12:39:04 PM
That Brewster IS ugly!! :D
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: artik on January 30, 2004, 12:46:16 PM
What about non WW2?
[list=1]
  • Best looking figter of 50s
  • Best looking fighter of 60s
  • Best looking fighter of 70s
  • Best looking fighter of 80s
  • Best looking modern fighter
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Guppy35 on January 30, 2004, 12:51:57 PM
Quote
Originally posted by artik
What about non WW2?
[list=1]
  • Best looking figter of 50s
  • Best looking fighter of 60s
  • Best looking fighter of 70s
  • Best looking fighter of 80s
  • Best looking modern fighter


50s is toss up between the F86 and the Hawker Hunter

60s has to be the A4 Skyhawk.

70s to the present- F15 Eagle

But oh how I love that ugly old F4 Phantom

Dan/Slack
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Furball on January 30, 2004, 12:59:19 PM
[list=1]
  • Best looking figter of 50s = Hawker Hunter
(http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/t_images/hunter.jpg)

  • Best looking fighter of 60s = English Electric Lightning
(http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/t_images/74lightnings.jpg)

  • Best looking fighter of 70s = F-15
(http://www.abbotsfordairshow.com/2001/f15.jpg)

  • Best looking fighter of 80s = Harrier GR7
(http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/t_images/harrgr7.jpg)

  • Best looking modern fighter = Gripen
(http://www.aeronautics.ru/img003/saab-jas39-gripen-04.jpg)

[/list]
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: artik on January 30, 2004, 01:13:11 PM
[list=1]
  • Best looking figter of 50s is Mystere IV
    (http://www.iaf.co.il/sip_storage/files/5/16205.jpg)
  • Best looking fighter of 60s is Mirage IIIC
    (http://www.iaf.co.il/sip_storage/files/1/16261.jpg)
  • Best looking fighter of 70s is Phantom F-4E
    (http://www.iaf.co.il/sip_storage/files/3/15813.jpg)
  • Best looking fighter of 80s up today is F-16
    (http://www.iaf.co.il/sip_storage/files/3/15843.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: artik on January 30, 2004, 01:15:54 PM
And this one best looking plane of all the times :D

(http://www.iaf.co.il/sip_storage/files/1/16261.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: YUCCA on January 30, 2004, 02:49:03 PM
I always personally loved the way the f4u looked :)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: lasersailor184 on January 30, 2004, 03:55:19 PM
Actually, the best looking plane now is named after one of our favorite planes that can take quite a beating.


That's right!  Thunderbolt 2!  A10 "Warthog".  They come no prettier.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Sikboy on January 30, 2004, 04:02:34 PM
I'm always torn with this question...

In the "Say, that's a sexy airplane" catagory, I'd say Spitfire

But in the "Im going to ****ing kill you" catagory, I'm going with the FW-190. That's the most sublime of all designs in my opinion.

-Sik
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Kommandant on January 30, 2004, 04:12:37 PM
Two of my Absolute Favorites, F86 Saber (My personal Favorite) and P51 Mustang
(http://www.mojaveairport.com/images/rotc/P51-N514DK-30a-F86-8.jpg)

P47 Thunderbolt
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/RioMusea/rio22.jpg)
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/RioMusea/rio23.jpg)

B25 Mitchell
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/RioMusea/rio27.jpg)

A20
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/RioMusea/rio28.jpg)

P3 Orion
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/Ohakea4.jpg)

Spitfire (mk?)
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/Spitfire1.jpg)

TBM Avenger
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/Avenger1.jpg)

F4U Corsair
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/Wanaka6.jpg)

And Tons of Bloody Others
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Karnak on January 30, 2004, 04:25:54 PM
Fighter:  Tie:
Fw190A-5
Spitfire F.Mk XIV

Carrier fighter:
A6M5 Reisen-sen

Twin Engined fighter: Tie:
Me410B-2 Hornisse
Mosquito FB.Mk VI
P-38L Lightning

Medium bomber: Tie:
Ju188A-2
Tu-2S

Heavy bomber:
B-17G Flying Fortress
Title: More favorites
Post by: Blammo on January 30, 2004, 07:01:23 PM
My post-war favorites:

F-104 Starfighter

(http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/f104.gif)

F-86 Sabre

(http://www.mig-sabre.com/F86-4-Lg.jpeg)

SR-71 Blackbird

](http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/X-Press/images/112902/SR71.jpg)

And, of course, the mighty A-10 Thunderbolt ][

(http://www.wikipedia.com/upload/a10.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: greentail on January 30, 2004, 08:37:59 PM
You guys got it all wrong. This is the best looking aircraft of all time. Nothing looks sleeker, or deadlier.

http://www.airminded.net/albdv/albdv.html
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Halo on January 30, 2004, 08:39:43 PM
Yeah, Artik, that Mirage IIIC is definitely a classic creature of beauty.  All-time prettiest?   Might be.  

Then again, other contenders include the British Vulcan and Victor bombers.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Rafe35 on January 30, 2004, 10:25:33 PM
Finally! I found F2G Super Corsair

(http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Fea1/001-100/Fea048_F2G-Corsair_Williams/images%20Part%204/035_.jpg)

I have to say that this number 9 is missing because some false report that this plane been crash at Akron-Canton airport in December 12, 1945 and guess what?  It was false report and someone who was a test pilot, that he was telling that number 9 was in "Top Secret."  I dont think this aircraft was never see again lol.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Guppy35 on January 31, 2004, 01:42:36 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Kommandant



Spitfire (mk?)
(http://www.integration.co.nz/aviation/aircraft/Spitfire1.jpg)
 


That Spit is an LFXVIe TB863 based in New Zealand.  That's the bird we should have in AH :)

Dan/Slack
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Spitter on February 02, 2004, 09:27:01 AM
Hrm, in game planes?  

Fighter, I'd have to say P-38.  No doubt Kelly Johnson had a real knack for combining form and function.  I think the fact that 3 of his 4 most famous aricraft designs have been shown in this thread (P-38, F104, SR-71 & U-2) attests to that.

Med Bomber?  that's a tough one, can I say mosquito?  love that plane.

Heavy, B-17 no question.  

Best plane of the 60's F-105 Superchief.  With the 104 being a close second.  

I've always liked the look of the F-15, I could be a bit biased there, because we were stationed at Luke AFB when the Eagle's were first coming into operational duty....my borthers and I would bike as close to the runway as we were allowed, and sit there with our cameras.  About 1 in 3 takeoffs would be a max performance climb out....sweet.  :D

I dunno, if it flies, I love it.  :aok

Cheers,
Spitter

It's good to make friends, even if you have to shoot them out of the sky sometimes.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: hawker238 on February 02, 2004, 07:56:55 PM
(http://www.eslkidstuff.com/images/airplane.gif)


Anyone who tells you differently is a theif and a liar.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Sway on February 02, 2004, 08:46:40 PM
I think the yak is pretty sexy, next to the 38 of course.. :p
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: slimm50 on February 03, 2004, 10:09:35 AM
Quote
Originally posted by lasersailor184
Corsair.  You can't beat the corsair.  Don't even try.

I can beat your Hog any day...in my Pony:D

p.s. do not even look at my scores. They're all lies;)

slim03
Title: Sweet Ride
Post by: FBYeoman on February 23, 2004, 08:32:40 AM
(http://rwebs.net/ghostsqd/images/P-47.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Doberman on February 23, 2004, 11:18:15 PM
You people are all on crack.

Best looking aircraft ever:

(http://homepage.interaccess.com/~dsh/me262.jpg)


Best looking prop plane?  A much more difficult proposition.  51b, P-40, Corsair, some of the Yaks, the Macchi's that we have in AH, Fiat G55, they're all beautiful.  

Ugly?  Anything with a radial engine that's not a Corsair.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: hogenbor on February 24, 2004, 05:24:06 AM
Best looking aircraft ever? Would have given the following answer since I was 7 or 8 years old :

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.

Saw them high up almost dailiy when I was in elementary school, saw a few retired ones in museums and even saw the last ones still flying a few years ago in Italy.

If any design says 'speed' this must be it.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: tapakeg on February 24, 2004, 05:51:28 AM
F-18  for modern fighter
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: RacrX on February 24, 2004, 04:43:30 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Doberman
You people are all on crack.

Best looking aircraft ever:

(http://homepage.interaccess.com/~dsh/me262.jpg)


Best looking prop plane?  A much more difficult proposition.  51b, P-40, Corsair, some of the Yaks, the Macchi's that we have in AH, Fiat G55, they're all beautiful.  

Ugly?  Anything with a radial engine that's not a Corsair.


About time someone has some sense. I loved the 262 since I first saw it the Air & Apace museum when I was about 11 years old. Got yelled at for rubbing the nose :)

Best looking all time fighter Mig-21
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 24, 2004, 06:26:54 PM
Tigercat

(http://1000pictures.com/aircraft/wwii-ftr/f-7f-2.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: palef on February 24, 2004, 06:27:36 PM
WWII Prop Fighter: Martin Baker MB.5

Early WWII Bomber: Do17E

Late WWII Bomber: Arado234

1950s Jet: F100
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 24, 2004, 06:44:19 PM
And here is the one I would like ot see introduced to the game

P61 black Widow
(http://www.usaaf.com/aircraft/classes/images/p61.gif)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Nod on February 24, 2004, 07:07:48 PM
Nothing says "oh Shi* i'm F*ed" as a Fw 190
Just think about the way the Abbeyville boys were percived during WWII. US army and RAF fighters were known to break away from fights when they encountered the "yellow noses"
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Kanth on February 24, 2004, 07:24:45 PM
(http://users.pandora.be/Luchtoorlog_Warplanes/Images/fw190a/a8r11.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Zanth on February 24, 2004, 07:46:21 PM
long as we are going nuts:

(http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-3/Small/E-17348.jpg)
Title: Re: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: SixxGunn on February 24, 2004, 11:56:41 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Hajo
Best Looking Fighters or WW2:  I have two...Spitfire and the P40. Both are pleasing to the eye.  And when one first sees the P40 it is immediately identified as a fighter.  Nothing wears the Sharkmouth better then the P40.


Dont know the Pony looks mighty good sporting the shark mouth.

(http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/photos/profile_112sqn_12.gif)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Doberman on February 25, 2004, 07:30:02 PM
RacrX (Nice handle BTW) - Yeah, I took my first trip to the Smithsonian in the mid 90's specifically to see the 262.  Spent 2 days at the Garber Restoration Facility as well (they've got a Kikka hanging from the ceiling of one of the buildings.).  It was even more amazing than the Air & Space Museum itself.  One of the highlights of my airplane loving life has been the trip to the Texas Airplane Factory during the 1998 Warbirds Con and checking out their replica 262s.  

SixxGunn - To each his own, but "Ugh."  That thing looks horrid.  That little bitty skinny mouth just doesn't look right.  Shouldn't be a sharks mouth on anything but a P-40 (and the motorcycle I'm painting this spring. :)  )
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Reschke on February 26, 2004, 08:35:44 PM
I gotta love my F4U-1A....The paint scheme and all specifically for "The Jolly Rogers"

(http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/NARG/images/corsair13.jpg)

(http://www.f4ucorsair.com/images/tce008.jpg)

Also the 262 and the A-10 but most of all I have always loved seeing F-4 Phantoms and hearing them scream by overhead.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Higgins on February 27, 2004, 08:29:31 AM
I have a cd of "Black 6" that was made after it was first restored and flown.  It has start-up, run-up, taxi, take-off, flight, ect outside the plane and then recordings of cockpit sounds during the same flight.  It also has about 15 min talk about the known history,  restoration ect of the plane.   At the time it was the only Bf-109 currently flight worthy in the world.  I know someone was restoring an E model for flight during the perioud though.

A year or so after I bought this cd I saw in the news that the plane was crashed.  I think it was ground-looped if I remember right, maybe not.  Anyhow I heard it was going to be re-restored and put up in a museum not to be flown again.  Grunhertz is the first person I've seen mention the plane since then.

If I can dig up the cd and someone wants a copy let me know.  Someone in my squad ripped it and used the flight files for FB and AH sounds.  

Higgins_Mskt
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: Charge on February 27, 2004, 10:28:49 AM
Spit XIV ->most beutiful
FW190A5-> most lethal looking
Mosquito
ME410 Hornisse
Tigercat

F86Sabre

Hawker Hunter

F4 Phantom

Rafale
Su-27


-C+

PS. "Say AAAA"  

http://www.photovault.com/Link/Military/AirForce/show.asp?tg=MYFVolume02/MYFV02P10_17.1699

:D
Title: fine! call my P47N ugly, but nothing beats this for stealth
Post by: FBYeoman on February 27, 2004, 11:32:18 PM
(http://www.zurqui.co.cr/crinfocus/paper/dc3.gif)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: manticor on March 01, 2004, 04:05:02 PM
the mig 29 baby!!!!  HOOOOAH!!!

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_187_1078178650.jpg)
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: manticor on March 01, 2004, 04:09:34 PM
no wait this is :)


(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_187_1078178938.jpg)
Title: Re: fine! call my P47N ugly, but nothing beats this for stealth
Post by: Shiva on March 01, 2004, 08:43:17 PM
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Originally posted by FBuzzard
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Ahh. He did discover the landing gear in the design. Although he did the rabbit-ear fold  wrong -- you take them all the way to the point at the front of the plane. And you don't cut off any paper at the rear; that's all wing surface. You just make the wingtip folds a little further in, with the rear angled a little in, so you get a venturi effect, then fold them in half back out, which gives you a built-in elevator compensation.

Back in high school, with a throw from a basketball court, I lost one of those over an auditorium that was more than 100 yards away; it was airborne for at least two minutes before we lost sight of it.
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: mosgood on March 10, 2004, 04:00:22 PM
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Originally posted by Grimm
One plane that seems to catch everyones imagination for some reason is the PBY Catalina.   I would think that might be in the transport class/flying boat.    I dont know that it would be useful in AH but It would be on my neat to see list.


maybe as a carrier based amphibious troop transport ......
Title: Best Looking Aircraft by category
Post by: TBolt A-10 on March 11, 2004, 03:05:01 AM
as long as we're just talkin' about looks in this thread, this aircraft is pure poetry in motion...

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/77_1078995578_f4u wingover.jpg)