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Posted: 12/2/2021 11:31:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/2/2021 11:33:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Roc was a strange one - much preferred the Bolton Paul Defiant - a real cutie, with a sting in the tail! https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwarbirdsnews.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FBoulton-Paul-Defiant-5.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Not all their bombers were ugly https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/XH558_%28G-VLCN%29_Avro_Vulcan_-_Last_Flight_over_Farnborough_%28cropped%29.jpg And not all of their fighters were beautiful. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Blackburn_Roc.jpg The Roc was a strange one - much preferred the Bolton Paul Defiant - a real cutie, with a sting in the tail! https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwarbirdsnews.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FBoulton-Paul-Defiant-5.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 The Defiant was a good looking airplane, but after the surprise wore off, the 109s tore them up. |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 11:37:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Who's flying that pig? Because it sure as hell ain't Comair. Grandma was a TWA stew on the DC-2/3 in 1939-40. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The CRJ is the greatest airplane of all time. It forever transformed airline travel as we know it. https://simpleflying.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1209548836.jpg Who's flying that pig? Because it sure as hell ain't Comair. Grandma was a TWA stew on the DC-2/3 in 1939-40. 9E |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 11:41:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Edit: Grammer Nice touch of irony spelling grammar wrong. Well played! |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 11:42:28 PM EDT
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I'll join ya OP with a nod.
I'm glad the Doug is a forgiving bird for sure. too much water on the field: 
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Posted: 12/3/2021 1:12:51 AM EDT
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i live in Tucson. The A-10's fill the sky, daily.
Your pic, O.P.; isn't a A-10 
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Posted: 12/3/2021 1:47:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 9E You flew for Pinnacle? |
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Posted: 12/3/2021 1:49:13 AM EDT
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Was it the DC10 that crashed a lot?
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Posted: 12/3/2021 2:04:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I knew a good few Lancaster pilots A few relatives I never met were Lancaster aircrew, killed on missions Worked with a lot of their groundcrew in later decades The plane was a total beast that delivered the goods and could keep going in a lot of trying situations. Pilots I know who were on Lancs totally loved them - they were a dream to fly Development of the Lanc. swallowed a massive, and I mean massive, proportion of the total UK spending in WW2. The Lancaster bomber focused air offensive from 1942 onwards is estimated - in WW2 figures - to have cost just under £2.8 Billion (there were between 4 to 5 US dollars to the UK Pound back then). Believe me, I'm not knocking the Lancaster and what it did. It's just that the aesthetic contrast between it and the major British fighters is a sharp one. The Spitfire was a flying work of art, the Mosquito was very elegant looking, and even the Hurricane, Typhoon, and Hurricane were really good looking planes. The Lancaster just has a very utilitarian look that's more in line with what we tended to build (IMO, the Lightning and B17 were the only really stylish major American combat aircraft of the war). |
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Posted: 12/3/2021 2:11:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not all their bombers were ugly https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/XH558_%28G-VLCN%29_Avro_Vulcan_-_Last_Flight_over_Farnborough_%28cropped%29.jpg And not all of their fighters were beautiful. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Blackburn_Roc.jpg Sure, if you want to go beyond WWII. The Vulcan is a great looking aircraft. Such a giant delta wing is just cool. But I think the Vulcan's sister V-series HP80 has the most elegant lines of its era. 
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Posted: 12/3/2021 2:16:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: User name does not check out. No it doesnt....  
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Posted: 12/3/2021 2:36:04 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2021 3:38:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2021 4:10:22 AM EDT
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Holy shit... 1st page, no Habu??? WTF??? THAT is the only RIGHT answer. If we're talking flying machines in general... the Saturn V is right there for sheer HP alone. But nothing that ever flew was more badass or so far ahead of its time than the SR71.
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Posted: 12/3/2021 6:27:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In the top three - DC-3, C-130, and C-17. I would probably put the C-130 at the bottom of the list. Why the C-17? I'm ignorant of why it's such a great aircraft. |
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Posted: 12/3/2021 6:42:19 AM EDT
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i worked at an FBO in San Antonio that had one parked overnight on our ramp; sure wish i would have
begged a ride on one. Guy had 4 that he used to fly contract box hauling for FedEx to smaller hubs in south & west Tx. |
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Posted: 12/3/2021 7:01:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I got a thing for WWII aircraft so my entry is the P51 Mustang https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61y7mJcZtrL._AC_SL1039_.jpg The P51-D was a beauty for sure. Shot down many of Me-109. |
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Posted: 12/3/2021 12:56:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Looks like it was designed on a Friday afternoon on a cocktail napkin  Just like how the A10 was a plane built around the gun, the EE Lightning was two engines and a cockpit with some wings and a metal skin added as an afterthought. |
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Posted: 12/3/2021 2:00:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You flew for Pinnacle? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 9E You flew for Pinnacle? Indeed. 10 years I'll never get back. |
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Posted: 12/3/2021 10:04:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why the C-17? I'm ignorant of why it's such a great aircraft. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: In the top three - DC-3, C-130, and C-17. I would probably put the C-130 at the bottom of the list. Why the C-17? I'm ignorant of why it's such a great aircraft. It's a capable airplane in the same vein as the other two. |
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