Most beautiful aircraft

[Voodoo]

I would like to add the comet and the sabre.

[Kovy]

I didn't count, but the Mustang seems to get a lot of votes.

For me it goes something like this:-

and I guess the Mustang would be there somewhere too.

it get my vote too.

For some reason, I always rated the P-51 over the spitfire which I think is too girly for a war plane... at least in its earlier versions: the MKXIV is much cooler.

The P-51 has a very high cool factor.

[wellerocks]

My two cents:


F-14D Super Tomcat kinda prefer VF-111 sundowners motives thogh

F-15J "Sakura"

P-51D Mustang "Cripes 'a' mighty 3rd"

J-35 Draken

Spitfire

Su-27

B-1B

Honorable mentions: JAS 39 Gripen, Mirage 2000, F-106 Delta Dart, Rafale and Concorde.

[spiteful21k]

DeHavilland Hornet and Republic F-12 Rainbow

[Bager1968]

One of my all-time favorites is the "baby Sabre"... but please, the single-Orpheus version, not the mutated twin-J85 version!

I present... Miss Gina!

[rumcajs]

Avia BH-1 (1920)






Avia BH-3 (1921)




Avia B-135 (1938)






Aero A-300 (1938)








L-39ZA

[gentle breeze]

Antonov An-225 "Mriya" ,only one , The Fattest angry bird XD

[Tempest414]

Two larger ladies

[Bunkers]

[Freehand]

I have always liked the MiG-29


Mikoyan Guervich Mig-29A "Fulcrum" by n74jrw, on Flickr

[Rii]

Some great shots here guys, thanks.

I have always liked the MiG-29

JSR is that you??

[Sterne82]

I like the look of the FW-200 Condor. Classic beauty

[Peregrinefalcon]

[mrmalaya]

That 2nd image of the PAK-FA in white (or somesuch) is the best i have yet seen.

Is that shiny metal one the Hughes racing machine depicted in the film?

[KERVYN]

[Tanguahka]

Mirage 2000 and a Su 30 MKI my vote.

[Nicolas10]

That 2nd image of the PAK-FA in white (or somesuch) is the best i have yet seen.

I agree, it is stunning.

Nic

[Freehand]

Some great shots here guys, thanks.
JSR is that you??

I am not 'JSR'. I try to use my own photos where possible

[logical1]

Along with the Vigilante, I also agree that the Spitfire was nice looking. Also for a transport plane the Super Connie is beautiful. I was in a Super Connie squadron VR-7 from 58 to 61. I ran the Connie Flight Simulator. Also the B-29 and the B-70 were good looking for such large aircraft.

There is an old saying that says that if a plane looks right it will fly right.

[logical1]

I would like to add that I fully agree with the person that said the f-23 is a great looking plane, much better looking than the F-22.

If you can believe what they said about the F-23, it was faster, and had less radar signature than the F-22. Probably politics got in the way, since the F-23 appears to be a better plane. It probably falls in the same catagory of Washington thinking that took guns off our fighter planes.

[Bager1968]

Speed and stealth are hardly the only performance criteria the ATF program was judged on... the F-22 scored higher for air-combat maneuvering and predicted lower manufacturing costs.

More important was the fact that at the time the award was given (April 1991) the USN was still part of the program, with the NATF intended to use as much of the winning ATF design as possible... and the F-22 planform was far more suitable for carrier compatibility than was the F-23 planform.

After the F-22 was declared the winner the USN was green-lighted to develop its own airframe to fit the same engines and avionics into... then the USN program was cancelled altogether less than a year after the F-22 had been selected.

[quadbike]

My favourite the F 16

followed by the Vulcan and Rafale

[Tempest414]

MB-5 & TSR2

[Tempest414]

[schurem]

lol that flying boat. really? you weren't aiming to post it in this thread, were you?

here's a nice one: XP-67 Moonbat

[Tempest414]

and another F-3 Hornet + a Lanc

[inkworm]

[J-31 Burrito]

that thing is hideous! horrible! horrendous!

now this is hot

[Dr.Snufflebug]

Many of these have already been mentioned but here are my favs:

Draken (of course):


Constellation/Starliner:


P-51D:


Seahawk:


Ki-46 III (model, hard to find good photos of the real thing):


Vigilante:


P-38:


Flanker:


Seafire 47:


Fighting Falcon:

[Tempest414]

got to love the Jaguar