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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: fdiron on May 05, 2002, 09:20:13 PM
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What do you think was the best looking fighter of World War II?
My vote goes to the P51-D Mustang. Long nose, straight lines, bubble canopy, and silver color make this plane awesome looking. I would also say that the P51 is the most modern looking prop plane of WW2.
The Spitfires wings look too much like banannas, the P47 is too fat, and the Zero looks too '1930ish'.
(http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/imgwwII/p51_6.jpg)
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Bf109G2: Most elegant!
Bf109G6: Best looking!
FW190A5: Damn good too!
:)
P51D is kinda OK, very clean and modern, but it is really lacking in character....
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yeah, p51 is boring
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p38
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P-38 and P-61 best looking. Its obvious they're related =)
P-51 looks like a worn dildo.
Spit is like a flying banana (squished)
The zero looks like a tonka truck
P-40 looks mean.. and that means its butt uggly.
109's are a P-40 wannabe
190's... used tampons.
110's are fokker eindecker groupies
lavs' and yaks mimic the dung beetles on my back yard.
;) :D
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Come on, the P38 only looks good by itself. When you compare the P38 to another plane, it looks to stubby and rounded (when viewed from the side). When viewed from the top, it looks like a box.
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Corsair :)
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Tony :)
Performance? fmm:cool:
The 2nd is 109 IMO, their color schemes look rather beautiful.
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Spitfire, nothing else is even close. :)
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Ki-61 Tony.
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Definitly Corsair and all the ww2 biwingers (when ever we get em... and we better get em!):D
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macci is a damb fine lookin aircraft imho
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i think the Ta152 is an awsome looking plane
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i think the Ta152 is an awsome lookin plane
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Definitly the p38 followed closely by the corsair
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Spitfire F.Mk XIVc
The rest are only in the competition to see who gets second place.:D
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i would say a undamged unpaintd shiny glisting B-17
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Doc Johnson would have designed. :p
Have to go with the ME-262.
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Well guys it is Dora. I am industrial designer and I have studied shapes and design a lot. Believe me.. DORA is the most beautiful! :D
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f4u
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Yak-3
(http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/images/main/98_wanaka/WANYAK3G.JPG)
My regards,
Widewing
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P47 Bubbletop, in 56th blue,blue camo:)
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This is what i think is the best looking fighter...
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MiG 3!!!
(http://www.kithobbyist.com/VVS/ModelArticles/Massimo/factory.JPG)
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I'm with Duedel all the way, MiG-3
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Ta 152 super-nose.
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Fiat G.55 Centauro
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The P-51 is good too fly, and a cool engine sound,, but it is butt ugly. Here is number 1 (alongside Mig-1 and 3) Thx too Sobaka for the picture (nice artwork Brian) *S*
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Ki-61, with honorable mention going to the P-38 (the XP-38 was the prettiest imo) and P-39/P-63 due to their unusual yet elegant lines.
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I bet a solid black Mustang would be good looking. Anyone know of any in existance?
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P38 offcourse most beautiful usa plane
Spit IX most beautiful British
Ta 152 is most beautiful german
tony is the most beautiful japanese
yak 9u nicest russian
not much choice yet in italian sorry so it's the C.202
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Me-262 by far :) Beautiful lines, and just looks like a predator.
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the me 262 is just a prehistoric fighterjet.
like the stopwith camel is a prehistoric prop fighter.
it's just that it got two ugly engine gondolas attached to it's wing.
for a jet that's ugly. :)
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Ta152 : love at first sight.
Anyone have wallpaper-sized or good quality pictures of one?
Second best is F7F, nice american style.
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And the 2nd nicest (and nicest german plane):
(http://www.geocities.com/lastdingo/aviation/he100-7.jpg)
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(http://www.danford.net/buff2f1.jpg)
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Originally posted by oboe
(http://www.danford.net/buff2f1.jpg)
Have you ever been in the bathroom takin' a Mandoble, and the phone rings? And you think "I'm expecting a very important phone call!" So you pinch that loaf early so that you can get the phone? That's what the Brewster looks like to me. A turd cut before its time.
Wouldn't mind one in AH though.
I guess since it wasn't mass produced for combat it doesn't count, but my favorite was probably the He-100.
-Sikboy
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Ta-152
(http://www.kolumbus.fi/koponen.lauri/ta152a.jpg)
(http://www.kolumbus.fi/koponen.lauri/ta152side.jpg)
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No doubt! :cool:
(http://lupodrive.supereva.it/multiwiew.jpg)
Have a look to this site for further infos...
BUSC Reggiane 2005 page (http://members.tripod.com/cm_busc/)
It's time for another great italian fighter in Aces High!!!Everybody's agree?
(http://lupodrive.supereva.it/2005.jpg)
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I bet a solid black Mustang would be good looking. Anyone know of any in existance
I saw a black one in Florida back in early 1983 at the TICO show. We arrived at the show pretty early and apparently this guy was just arriving. We just happened to be on the airport perimeter road at the end of a runway when this speck appeared in the distance to my left - coming straight at us at about 450+. Flew right over the car no more than 15 to 20 feet agl, low pass down the runway, then zoomed straight up till it was just a spec again. That fly-by is etched firmly in my memory.
Saw the same black P51 in St. Pete at Albert Whitted airport a couple days later. It was the only black one I had ever seen - will never forget it :)
I don't know if its still in existence.
Met the author Martin Caidin that day also. My friend Steve Gentle taught him to fly at Katama Airfield, where I collected landing fees and pumped gas for four years. :cool:
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Originally posted by mipoikel
Well guys it is Dora. I am industrial designer and I have studied shapes and design a lot. Believe me.. DORA is the most beautiful! :D
Sorry Mipoikel,
I am also Industrial Designer ;) ... and I tell you Bf109G-2 is the most beautiful!! :p
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Nope, this here is purty
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there ya go:
(http://www.ne.jp/asahi/airplane/museum/cl-pln5/images7/33M99Bom.JPG)
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Although the vote is a bit conservative...
(http://www.warbirdpictures.com/LCBW3/me262-011.jpg)
Those smooth lines... the resemblance to a shark... the 4xMk108 :D
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While the pony is a beautiful thing, it doesn't get any better than this:
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Since ya'll gittin into art and stuff:D
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Me262! They've got one at the Smithsonian A&S Muesum that looks fast sitting still. Now if you want to limit it to prop jobs...well, I just can't decide. Too many beautiful machinces to choose from.
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I feel VERY bad for the guy who clicks on this thread with Dialup access lol.
-Sikboy
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Hehe, I need a 21" monitor for Illo's reply:eek:
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God help Finland, their designers have no sense of aesthetics. :)
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All of em.
eskimo
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which is the best looking FRENCH plane?
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For pure elegant beauty, I don't see how you can top the Spitfire.
- oldman
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P-51 hands down, all else are wanna be's
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The "Butcher Bird"
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i think the westland whirlwind looked pretty cool.
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Now this is the single most sexy plane in WW2!! (along with her sisters Dora, 152 and the sturdy brother Anton)
(http://mitglied.lycos.de/gruenherz/190C-Pic01s.jpg)
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My vote goes to the "Grinning Monster." Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Shuckins
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nah your all rong. completely and totaly rong.:p (http://C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Nelson's Games.jpg)
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nah nah the 190's are the wayyy sexy! no one can beat us luftwhiners :p and im on dial-up and its fine.
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The best fighter never to fly operationally... the martin-baker MB5.
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Originally posted by funkedup
God help Finland, their designers have no sense of aesthetics. :)
Uhh... :) well, you know, it is the beauty of simplicity and functionalism behind everything ;)
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True. I think the 190A is better though. The curvature on the cowling is exsquisite. :)
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Thank you Illo.
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Uber 109s and 190s to go with Brahms uberness.
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Originally posted by BenDover
which is the best looking FRENCH plane?
Frenchy is most sexy. :D
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Best looking French Plane?
Easy :)
(http://frenchaces.free.fr/avions/france/d520.jpg)
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that can't be french design!!
and if it isn't, maybe i should've said of french design?
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HERE IS IT!!!
1. long nose (Griffon engine)
2. wide tail (MK 14 - 19)
3. "tear drop" canopy
4. sharp wing tips
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Originally posted by BenDover
that can't be french design!!
Of course it is, Dewoitine D.520
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Show anyone a picture of a WW2 plane and you will shown something of beauty in it. They may not all have the best of all to make it great but everything about the planes of that era is what make them all beautiful.
Better yet show those same pictures to a small child (preferably a little boy) and you will see probably the best sight you will ever see. The eyes will just light up like my son's did here in this thread and seeing all the great planes pictures posted here.
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Originally posted by BenDover
which is the best looking FRENCH plane?
This is my Favourite French WWII fighter:
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(http://www.kotfsc.com/aircraft/graphics/mc205-1.gif)
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Wouldn't have thought so, but after an airshow where I watched P-51's, a Spit or two, TBM, P-39, P-47, Corsair, (previously saw a 38) and those Tora Tora mock-ups of Japanese aircraft, the F4 really stuck out as the purdiest (in flight anyway).
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Spitfire F.Mk XIV
(http://www.duxford.org/tfc/spit_xiv_high/images/spitfire_mkxiv_sm832_09.jpg)
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LOL Sikboy... "Ever been in the bathroom taking a Mandoble"?!!
I have to clean my monitor off now, jerk. And my vote for the prettiest plane goes to the 190A- all the A series looked way better than the silly long nosed D series, and the Ta-152 is a travesty.
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Dora (http://dora9.de/d9pic_23wc.jpg)
VL Pyörremyrsky (http://www.tutka.net/~jr73/pm_2.jpg)
Ta 152 :cool:
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F6F and F4U get my vote. They've always had a burly, broad-shouldered, bare-knuckled look that says "Come on boy, climb into my cockpit and let's go kick the hell out of our country's enemies!"
Shuckins
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I believe that a plane should look like what it is intended to do. The P-51 is a beautiful aircraft and looks great at an air race. But a plane made for war should look like it. Therefore here are my selections.
Fighter - P-47 Thunderbolt. Big, powerful, ugly and mean.
Bomber - B-24 Liberator for all of the same reasons.
Dive Bomber - JU-87 Stuka do I need to say it??
Avid
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Originally posted by Urchin
LOL Sikboy... "Ever been in the bathroom taking a Mandoble"?!!
I have to clean my monitor off now, jerk. And my vote for the prettiest plane goes to the 190A- all the A series looked way better than the silly long nosed D series, and the Ta-152 is a travesty.
Thanks, thought that one would go under the radar lol.
I agree that the 190a is far and away better looking than the Dora, or Ta-152. In fact, as far as operational planes go, I'd say the 190a or the F4-U. Both just "look the part" to me. And they look mean, like a fighter should, not "pretty" like the spitfire.
-Sikboy
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C'mon now.........how can you possibly disagree with this:
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Accept No Substitutes...
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all the planes look great....but i like this one:
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As if there was ever a question.
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One more for the knockout!!
(http://www.ofmc.co.uk/images/large/large-ofmc-breitling22.jpg)
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And in Kiwi colours! What a gentleman :)
regards
Palef
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(http://www.arc-duxford.co.uk/images/spitfire.jpg)
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Schweeeet pic Xjazz !
The first time I saw a zero in real life I popped a three foot boner .
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the spitfire is undoubtedly the most 'beautiful' world war 2 fighter.
the thing is all other fighters were designed for fighting only, the supermarine was very much designed to look perfect.
The design was universally recognised as 'beautiful' even by enemy and friendly pilots alike.
add to that the superb handling...and i quote 'you dont fly the spitfire, you strap it on!'
also in a recent book 'combat crews' by john comer he says it was the most elegant looking fighter and deadly in combat.
my personal favourite of WW2 is without a shadow of a doubt the 190 due to the fact it looks like a hunter.It has that 'about to fire' posture and is also among the best of the war.
the p51 just looks like a lumpy mass with odd parts sticking out.
the best part of it in my opinion is the guns in the wings.the rest is fairly ugly as a design for looks.In fact its as plain as a bulgarian pin up :D
The P38 is also a good looking plane because it was so unusual and holds a special place in my childhood in terms of a model i always picked off the shelf.
but to say its the best looking? hmmm
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Originally posted by hazed-
the spitfire is undoubtedly the most 'beautiful' world war 2 fighter.
my personal favourite of WW2 is without a shadow of a doubt the 190 due to the fact it looks like a hunter.It has that 'about to fire' posture and is also among the best of the war.
Wow, be on the lookout for the four horsemen. Hazed and I agree on something :eek:
-Sikboy
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The stang is a mass prouced cheap thingy,
when u compare it to the P38 it looks like the lightning comes from the skunkworks.
P38 looks just most interesting and it flys like it.
The idea u between two engines with ur nose free for all the guns is just to sexy to be.
The P38 is definitly no wanna be mustang
coz the P38 can do more
at least it's got some pay load .
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THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLANE!!
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Besides the Spit, I also like these:
A6M5 Zero-Sen. This is just such a proportional aircraft with such elegant lines. It is the only radial engined aircraft that I can say that about. I also understand that the A6M is a pilots aircraft, no vices at all. It has weaknesses as a warplane (to put it lightly), but from just a flying stand point and a beauty stand point, Horikoshi did a superlative job.
Fw190A Series. These fighters just look like fighters. Stocky, aggressive and to the point. Tank did a great job on this aircraft, it looks like it should. Where the Spitfire is the elegant duelist that wins by agility and grace, the Butcher Bird is the brawler who wins by meaness. I agree with Urchin, the Dora horribly distorts, like a caricature, the nature of the Fw190.
Mosquito FB.VI. This aircraft is sleek and clean. Nicely rounded tail and stepped wings create and thoughbred look that makes it look like one would imagine a successful multi-role aircraft would look given the technology of the day. This was the aircraft used for pinpoint strikes in cities and on parts of buildings in WWII.
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here's a challenge
which is the best looking FRENCH plane?
here's a challenge
That's fair question, if you limit the WWII plane choices from all other Countries to pre- June 1940 planes. France did not produce many fighter planes while it was occupied.
Judging by BenDover's 2 replies and signature, I judge him to be a complainer.... but hey, that's just me.
Best looking plane: P-51
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wow, 2 posts, that is enough to form an opinion on someone:rolleyes:
and it was a ment as a joke, french planes are ugly, but i did want to know how ugly the best looking french plane
as for my sig, up until the begining of this month, it was a joke, but then i found out there was alot more american stuff then any other country
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The P51 was the most modern looking fighter of World War II. It did not have curved lines like the antiquated Spitfire, nor was it bulbous and fat like radial engine aircraft.
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The most beautiful WW2 fighter is the Hurricane,followed closely by the Spitfire with a deserving 3rd for the P40.
I don't like the Mustang at all,how it looks or how it handles :p
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24k dialup here...modem icon on taskbar slowly disentigrated, phone line went up like a Looney Tune's TNT wire and after all that received the Blue Screen of Death loading this thread :D
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F4F...I just like the lines of it..
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Take a look at this,
Gloster Gladiator:D