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29-04-2009, 18:36 #1Senior Member
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Most Beautiful Aircraft
Question that came up in the spotters thread.
What is your favourite Aircraft?
Which do you think is the most beautiful?
Me torn between Spitfire and Hurricane.
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29-04-2009, 18:40 #2Senior Member
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Spitfire & Hurricane beuatiful aircraft.
However,
Lightning - Such a simple shape. Oh, the performance!!!"God makes me feel pain because I cheat at darts."
Shacks, pub in Krefeld where you got a Steak breakfast after being on the piss all night in CK's, 2000.
Said shortly after approaching the dartboard to retrieve his darts, violently sneezing, which caused him to headbutt the wall & then twatting his head off a wall lamp when his head came back up. The cheating cunt...............
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29-04-2009, 18:42 #3Member
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Re: Most Beautiful Aircraft
Definitely the older planes. The Spitfire of course, it's the noise of the merlin engine that does it for me.
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I always liked the Buccaneer. However, there were a few occasions when I was overjoyed to see a Skyraider.
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29-04-2009, 18:44 #5Senior Member
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Boringly predictable here but for me has to be Concorde and Spitfire, although I always thought the Phantom (F4) had a certain rugged charm.
Concorde and Spitfire though prime examples of if it looks right.
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Re: Most Beautiful Aircraft
I'm torn between this:
and this:
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29-04-2009, 18:47 #7Senior Member
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oh and the Mossie now that was a lovely hunk of wood, you can stick your chippendale chairs
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I have to agree with Legs. It's between the Vulcan and the Lancaster for me, but I tend to lean toward the Vulcan.
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Showing my youth but the Frightening is my most beautiful Airframe.
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No contest, the Spitfire.
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Must admit Legs, that Lanc is a good looking bird too.
"God makes me feel pain because I cheat at darts."
Shacks, pub in Krefeld where you got a Steak breakfast after being on the piss all night in CK's, 2000.
Said shortly after approaching the dartboard to retrieve his darts, violently sneezing, which caused him to headbutt the wall & then twatting his head off a wall lamp when his head came back up. The cheating cunt...............
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29-04-2009, 18:59 #12Senior Member
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TSR2 and Avro Arrow. Even sat on the ground they looked like they were doing Mach 2.
Stupidity is like nuclear power.
It can be used for good or evil.
And you really don't want to get any on you.
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Re: Most Beautiful Aircraft
Spitfire
MustangI read Arrse - that's not an alternative to palmestry
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29-04-2009, 19:03 #14Member
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Its got to be the TSR 2 as above, way ahead of it's time.
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/tsr2/xr222.jpgI have no idea what weapons will be used in the next world war... but I do know that world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. A Einstein
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29-04-2009, 19:04 #15Senior Member
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Re: Most Beautiful Aircraft
I agree Spitfire and Hurricane
Also Concorde, Vulcan and Lancaster
However I've always thought that an F4 Phantom has certain pleasing to the eye qualities especially when taxying with both canopies up
We should remember the tremendous contribution of the Queen Mother to the war effort:
As the BBC pointed out, she 'bravely remained in London beside her husband' during the war.
This contrasts sharply with the actions of my grandfather who, on the declaration of war immediately left his wife and children and pissed off, first to France, then North Africa, Italy, France (again) and finally Germany.
The shame will always be with us.
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