Esthetically appealing military aircraft - your favourite is........

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  1. glucose

    glucose Well-Known Member

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    I didn't ask for civil planes, I want pictures of beautiful military aircraft. Thing is, civil aircraft are,in my opinion, much easier to pretty-up than military types and too, they seem to arrive, right out of the shop, already, for the most part, attractive.

    I can choose one fave military plane easily when asked to pick my fave and it is:
    MiG-21-bis
    or
    MiG-21-2000

    If I had to go underground and hide for one month in a hole, somewhere, and all I had was one month's worth of fried chicken, one month's worth of orange juice, a bucket and a book, the book wouldn't be nekkid pics, it would be about planes.

    If I had to go underground for 6 months, the chicken and the orange juice would turn my bowels loose, I would need a bucket, and the book would have to be about nekkid chicks.

     
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  2. -exec-

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    190A :shuffle:

    same reason as exec's i guess
     
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    Shit, i could make a list that would go on and on lol, but my absolute favorite:

    B-17, F-14, F-4 Phantom, P-38, F-86... could really keep going lol :p
     
  5. Tombow

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    Well, here are mine (exactly in that order):
    Propeller fighters: MC.202/205, Ki-61, Reggiane Re-2005, Ki-84
    Jet fighters: Saab J-35 Draken, Mirage 2000, Hawker Hunter, Gloster Meteor
    Propeller Bombers: DeHavilland Mosquito, Martin B-26 Marauder, PZL-37B
    Jet Bombers: Northrop YB/YRB-49, Convair B-58 Hustler
     
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    I'd have to go with the F-14 if only one is allowed :)
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    Hard to choose one... I think that would be F4U anyway:), also Yak-3, F-15C and belive me or not - I-16:D
     
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    mig-31, 109g, f7u the jet, IAR 80
     
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    F/A-18, Rafale and/or Mirage 2000.

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    Mirage III, Phantom, mig21, BAE Buccaneer,a4 skyhawk...
     
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    P-38, F-16, Su-27, P-51D ... in no special order
     
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    Jets: SU-37, F-15, JAS-37, JAS-39, MiG-29, MiG-31, Mirage III, Rafale, Me262 and MiG-21.
    WWII Prop.: Ki-84, Yak-3, La-7, Ki-61, Fw190D9 and Bf109F.

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    J-35 Draken is attactive
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    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hh97ixM1fv8
    J-37 is ugly & the ventral fins are evidence.
    ventrals fin appear on planes that are found to suffer adverse yaw.
    adding drag & weight combat ugliness for some, but to me it just makes a fat transvestite.

    Tempest II is also appealing
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    Chines make an SR-71 pretty
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    see a picture of the prototype plane & you'll understand

    Canberra is a looker too, except those external tanks
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    Forgot to put in Canberra video: http://www.archive.org/download/wing_to_wing_TNA/wing_to_wing_TNA_256kb.mp4

    and this one is almost as nice looking as the one it beat for the production contract
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    name it For The Win
     

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