World's Prettiest Aircraft

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September 28, 2017, 09:49 PM

zoom6zoom

World's Prettiest Aircraft

Commercial:

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September 28, 2017, 09:50 PM

furlough

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:
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Originally posted by furlough:
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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

LOL. Prettiest, not most functional. I love the Four Fans of Freedom but pretty she ain't.

Hey, I think she's gorgeous.

She's not a spoiled scrawny size 0.25 runway model; she's a beautiful, muscular girl who works a manual labor job for a living (or maybe the airplane version of Christina Hendricks).

I love A-10s, most Soviet stuff (that Antonov AN-22 in the 'ugly plane' thread is a favorite of mine), C-130s, BUFFs, Stukas, and a lot of the 'ugly' planes in the other thread. Just like with women, there is no universally-accepted criteria for beauty (though anybody calling a Spitfire ugly is beyond help).

Yep, no worries!

I flew these for a couple of years down in Panama - in fact I took this picture and it shows up all over for the Mighty Chuck-27!

So I appreciate what these can do. I really, really, liked that airplane. But ask me if that or the T-38 I flew just before that is prettier? Ehhhh... I gotta go with the T-38.

But that is just me. I love the late 50s - early 60s jets that just looked like like they were going mach snot on the ground.

It has already been posted, but that RA-5C Vigilante was perfect.

Look at how big that thing is compared to an F-4!

Plus it looks like it is going twice as fast as the old Double-Ugly.

Good thread guys, thanks!

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September 28, 2017, 10:03 PM

TAllen01

I was always partial to an F111 with the wings
swept back:

September 28, 2017, 10:05 PM

sigmonkey

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:
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Originally posted by furlough:
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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

LOL. Prettiest, not most functional. I love the Four Fans of Freedom but pretty she ain't.

Hey, I think she's gorgeous.

She's not a spoiled scrawny size 0.25 runway model; she's a beautiful, muscular girl who works a manual labor job for a living (or maybe the airplane version of Christina Hendricks).

I love A-10s, most Soviet stuff (that Antonov AN-22 in the 'ugly plane' thread is a favorite of mine), C-130s, BUFFs, Stukas, and a lot of the 'ugly' planes in the other thread. Just like with women, there is no universally-accepted criteria for beauty (though anybody calling a Spitfire ugly is beyond help).

And she'll "Bitch Slap" you, like you never been slapped...

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September 28, 2017, 10:10 PM

furlough

quote:
Originally posted by TAllen01:
I was always partial to an F111 with the wings
swept back:

Oh yeah. And the Aussies had the balls to do what that thing is doing - dumping fuel and then burning it with the "reheat" (afterburner to us Yanks).

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September 28, 2017, 10:25 PM

medic451

I was gonna put the Staggerwing, but since thats up and this isnt, Id add the F-20 Tigershark

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September 29, 2017, 12:10 AM

Sailor1911

Navion

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September 29, 2017, 12:38 AM

Rightwire

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Originally posted by maladat:
I'm not sure exactly why, but ever since I was a little kid, I've loved the F4U Corsair.

This one gets my vote too

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September 29, 2017, 12:39 AM

bigdeal

Way ahead of its time. She was a beautiful aircraft.

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September 29, 2017, 03:25 AM

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B25 by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

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September 29, 2017, 06:27 AM

2BobTanner

Stearman trainer. Even the paint scheme is beautiful.

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September 29, 2017, 07:02 AM

Sigolicious

My favorites in scantily clad livery..........

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September 29, 2017, 07:16 AM

VBVAGUY

The sound of FREEDOM !!!! As a young kid in the 1970's, for a few years I lived at the Oceana Naval Housing in Virginia Beach, and constantly heard these. God Bless

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Originally posted by CoolRich59:
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Originally posted by fwbulldog:
For me, it's always been

Nope, not a bad looking plane at all.

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September 29, 2017, 09:36 AM

Veeper

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

Military:
P-38

I've always had a love affair with this aircraft.

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September 29, 2017, 09:39 AM

Expert308

My favorites have always started with "F-4", namely the F-4 Phantom and the F-4U Corsair. Go figure.

September 29, 2017, 09:48 AM

newtoSig765

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Originally posted by Expert308:
My favorites have always started with "F-4", namely the F-4 Phantom and the F-4U Corsair. Go figure.

Does that include the F4F Wildcat?

I once watched a guy turn on final in one of those, still frantically cranking his landing gear down. I think he made it.

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September 29, 2017, 09:53 AM

Sailor1911

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Originally posted by Shaql:

But I'm biased...

Many years ago, when the B-1's were stationed at McConnell in Wichita, I was out in western Kansas hunting pheasants. We were driving along a dirt road, warm day, windows down, and all of a sudden overhead passes a B-1 running one of the "oil burner routes" out there at a very low altitude with wings swept. Wasn't supersonic but was really hauling the mail. Never heard him until he was long past us and the roar came over us. Scared the bejesus out of us. Great looking and performing aircraft. They used to use the ridgline on my house to line up for the centerline at McConnell so I saw them on final almost every day and night. Now, it's just the tankers.

September 29, 2017, 09:53 AM

jhe888

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Originally posted by GaryBF:
Let me add the Beech D17 Staggerwing:

The Staggerwing is a beauty.

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September 29, 2017, 09:55 AM

Sailor1911

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Way ahead of its time. She was a beautiful aircraft.

She sure was. Shame that Beech bought them all back and destroyed them. But, I'm sure that they learned a tremendous amount about composites from the exercise.

September 29, 2017, 10:07 AM

Hound Dog

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Originally posted by Sailor1911:

She sure was. Shame that Beech bought them all back and destroyed them. But, I'm sure that they learned a tremendous amount about composites from the exercise.

The Pima Air and Space Museum (Tucson, Az; largest privately-owned aircraft museum in the world) has one on display. It is a stunning aircraft.

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