What is the best looking airplane in history?
What is the best looking airplane in history?
Either the sr71 or the p38
>sr71
fpbp
I may be biased, but I love a good spitfire
I love that it looks like a 262, but sooo much sleeker
This. Anyone who disagrees is just wrong.
I've always found the f-15 to be sexy af
Obviously this beast
Wait fuck i didn't notice it was a helicopter fuck me
*This one
I've always loved the B-17
Is the MR mast in his ass?
Well ive no idea what that is...
main rotor
Ah gotcha
Yes he does
This bad boy shot down a couple of pajeets the other day. Very sexy.
clearly the Horten H IX
what is that even supposed to be? gi joe mach 999 transport plane?
Soo...he was behind that...?
Handley-Page Victor. Brit bomber from the Cold War.
Handley Page Victor
British jet bomber from 1958
On this pic my second favourite of all time
Avro 698 Vulcan, nuclear bomber from 1955
Ugly hunchback of a plane.
Serious contender.
>Ugly graffiti painted.
Good choice
Pretty, I'm a fan of the Mirage myself.
Per excellence, looks even better in gray.
Fascinating but I have seen better large plane designs.
Ugly even for the date.
It's a classic but it's built for practicality not aesthetics.
>Flying turbine.
Genius level stuff in terms of design.
Ugly and weird.
CGI.
Weird taste but cool choices.
Only one possible answer, OP...
Hands down the best in it's era
thanks guys I totally missed that one
SR71
Here it is again, looking awesome
wasn't that one dripping kerosene when it wasn't flying?
Is that a droop snoot I see?
Yep. it refueled in the air tho
*sip*
The only real contender
A10 of course
Fuck, thats sexy.
>>Ugly graffiti painted
You're not a fan of the ol' flyboy custom job?
isn't it fascinating that it seems like today's requirements to an aircraft are that high, that it is so much more difficult to build such an aircraft? I mean, if people would say:
>Hey, look how far we got with technology, let's build a more modern version of that one!
That won't happen. Even rethink why we don't have another Concorde today - as if there would be no demand for a fast transatlantic vehicle... I know there are plans or even starts of such projects already took place; but we still got nothing
Not even joking. I like functional looking things, simple things. This looks like it is made to do one thing. Fuck shit up. Then they put the engines in the back so they could fit more stuff to fuck more shit up. That is beautiful.
Uhhh sure.
Personally i fuckin love these types of nose designs on planes, perfection
Personally, I see WW2 planes as the last and greatest planes we ever built. Everything that comes after (jet engines, etc) should be in a different category because they're more like guided rockets/earth-bound spaceships than planes.
That's a monster out of some post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick. Awesome.
> jet engines look more like guided rockets/earth-bound spaceships than planes.
Could I have a hint of your methamfetamine, kind sir?
I love the super constelation. If i was super rich id turbo prop one up with modern avionetics and shieeet
Obviously the Flanker.
I'm puzzled no one posted it yet. I suppose you amerimutts don't know of soviet airplanes.
Sorry, slavaboo. It's not a good looking aircraft.
That streamline. That long neck. That powerful look. And more than look.
Excuse me good sir but if you don't see the beauty in her then you have a vision dysfunction.
Su 34 just look at that sweet ass.
pic speaks for itself
Simplicity and curves of the f16 for me
You're kinda right but would you take it over the 33's more slim body?
It would obliterate the su 33 retarded body
If I could fuck a plane. This would be it chief.
I wanna lick the tip.
The futuristic look just makes it look really nice
fite me bish
Bend over bitch.
What is it
just a silly copy of a real genius' work
Calling in my younger brother.
The op F-4 Phantom ofc.
Practice target for MiGs
Need 2 planes to take out 1 bomber. ha pathetic. Anyway BOHICA bich.
More like the other way around. It was called the mig killer for a reason idiot.
But that one wasn’t made so the Horton doesn’t count
Actually it takes one R-77 missile, pretty reliable kill.
That reason is called propaganda. One on one against a Mig-19 or 21 the Phatty is screwed. Nothing like a clumsy airplane without a gun. (yes, I know, later they got attachable gun pods...)
They just use their big ass radars and boom. Mig destroyed.
Jesus, it was a joke. Autista
>OCD plane
This plane maker was on all kinds of drugs.
Ascetics of this one makes it looks and it’s preformance pretty good.
>Dornier Do 335
Both the MiG-21 and the F-4 were formidable adversaries, each in their own right. However they were designed for different missions. For the F-4, designed as a high-altitude long range-interceptor, its tactics had to be modified significantly to successfully fight the tight turning MiG-21.
Outside of a wide turn turning radius, the F-4 was generally superior to the Mig-21 in most every respect. However it could not fight the MiG-21s in a horizontal, turning fight. The F-4 needed to develop its own and different tactics to defeat the MiG. This was accomplished by the remedial training given by the Navy Fighter Weapons School, aka Topgun. Pilots learned to utilize the F-4’s strengths, like using the vertical with its impressive thrust-to-weight ratio instead of trying to turn with the more agile MiG. Of course the F-4’s weapon systems, both radar and missiles were far superior to the MiGs’.
Nevertheless although both aircraft had their relative strengths and weaknesses, it really came down to the pilots involved. While the US pilots had better training, the VPAF pilots had much more experience and more opportunity with several becoming aces. List of Vietnam War flying aces - Wikipedia As an F-4 driver, I knew that if I employed the unique-to-the-F-4 tactics I had learned, I would be successful against a MiG-21.
although not the most functional plane, these inspired the bumblecrows from nausicaa, and the C-9979 from star wars
Is your mom the hunchback you're whining about?
In a dogfight, hypothetically 1v1:
-radar and missiles are almost irrelevant, back then their reliability was extremely low
-the MiG can not only outturn the Phatty at every altitude, it also can OUTCLIMB it
-the Phantom's strength due to more power and higher weight is the ability to outrun the MiG, especially in a dive.
So the F4's main advantage is the ability to run away.
In a 1 on 1 dogfight, Lucky for the mutts they usually had superior numbers.
Let's have one pic of this silver arrow aswell.
The F4U Corsair is obviously the most beautiful plane ever guys, come on.
I literally just said they had a superior radar and missile capability. So mig = ded and they were much faster
reminds me of my ex wife
Hard to say it isn’t but the p-51 could give it a run for its money
Can't believe no one has mentioned this even after 100 Posts.
The best looking plane ever made.
actually it's a 323
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FOOK
First 2 that popped into my head...
can your plane do this
>they put the engines in the back so they could fit more stuff to fuck more shit up
not exactly ... but yeah, it sure worked out that way.
also, the engines exhaust over the tail, so form the ground the heat source appears well behind the plan making it just that much harder to target from below with a heat seeking MANPAD/SLSAM.
My three fav planes:
1) Saunders-Roe SR.A/1
When you see this beautiful aircraft fly over you immediately know what it is. And If you’re an enemy you know it’s a warning. Next time you won’t be able to see it fly over before your entire city is destroyed. That is beauty
2) Saunders-Roe Princess
And the unmade Beriev Be-2500
It takes a sad person, really, to sit there and reply to every post like you're a well known critic who everyone is clamoring to hear from.
Seek attention elsewhere.
Craftsman no.5 jack plane. Goody but an old.
A number of people who worked on this went on to the space program after it was cancelled by the Prime Minister...
You're welcome...
Fuck, just look at that! Are Americans even close to this tech? Just the supersonic missiles alone are impressive enough, but the entire arsenal of this plane just puts the entire American air force to shame!
NATO will be brought down to the Russian Federation's knees!
Are you even fucking trying anymore amerifats?
They only have 1 pak fuck. America has a shite load of f22.... Its like comparing tu 34 to tigers
F14 all day, erry day.
>this shitty propaganda
they have like 4 operational planes which are probably half as good as advertised
only thing the soviets are somewhat good at are missiles, but NATO countermeasures would fry them into oblivion
Truth
without nukes Russia wouldn't be a serious threat
Scheibe Bergfalke II
Not to mention that they've scaled back planned orders. There's only going to be 12 total in production.
Kek
Bump
Fucking morons. Its the B1 for sure. Best fighter jet is the Sukhoi 27
Outdated faggot. NEXT!
Only contender
I'll go for the 100P
motor1.com
I like the Frenchies
AVRO
R.I.P
Better satellites made the blackbird redundant. Mach 0.8 is fast enough for travel now that there's so much more tech and connectivity to fill the time.
literally only 4
lm sr71
ng b2 spirit
avro vulcan
concorde
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>More crazy American experimental planes? >More crazy American experimental planes.
Who the hell thought this would be a good idea?
The Messerschmitt Bf 109
This nigger gets it
"Forktailed Devil" aka the P-38 Lightning
Fine, I'll post it then. Pussies.
USSR beast
P51 MUSTANG
the most futuristic
looks like something out of macross
Nope
Danger Zone!
And still more conservative idea than the original.
Focke-Wulf Triebflügel
su 37 you stupid fucking faggots its not even close end of story
sukhoi = cheap filth that literally falls apart on the ground, during takeoff, in the air, and during landing.
total analog cockpit, a complete gamble everytime you get in the cockpit.
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>replies to a post
What a fag
This guy is telling the truth
P51 Mustang
> Gif of blacks nignogging and doing degenerate stuff.
Weird flex but ok
Agreed. It's those parabolic wings that do it for me.
Move over phaggots, best plane coming through.
Catalina
Oh, do come on. When it comes to twins this is far prettier. Plus more versatile. And you can't beat the sound of a Merlin....except maybe with two Merlins
it really is sad i just skip all the posts until i get to theirs because i get so tired of thinking theres a response to each post when it's just one guy thinking he has something valuable to contribute.
A-7 was my favorite growing up sweet looking plane
The one and only king