Favorite plane never built (or perhaps as a prototype).

[GrauGeist]

The main reason SSTs were abandoned, is because of the environmental effect it on the upper atmosphere.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Vickers Vireo, potentially the first monoplane carrier fighter.


View: https://youtu.be/k9oaXCqrK0M

Leading to the Vickers Jockey, but as a carrier fighter.

 

[Howard Gibson]

An early Seafang instead of the Seafire with Merlin-engine driving 3-4 blade prop, but with the Seafang's wider undercarriage would have been nice in place of the Sea Hurricane, Fulmar, Firefly and Seafire. Essentially a Seafire with a Seafang wing. With the A6M-like retrograde move to wingtip fold, we'll need wider lifts on the earlier armoured carriers.

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The Seafang was powered by a Griffon was it not? The six blade contra rotating prop usually means a Griffon 85 with 2350hp.

 

[Admiral Beez]

The Seafang was powered by a Griffon was it not?

Yes.

 

[pbehn]

I would like to see a working Hawker Tornado, just to see the pictures at start up, flames coming from every orifice like a metal dragon.

 

[Peter Gunn]

Also from the book "P-51B: NAA's Bastard Stepchild"

Dude... you need to quote REPUTABLE well researched sources, not hearsay...

 

[Tom Fey]

Republic Rocket.

 

[ThomasP]

A good candidate for at least a guest appearance in the Blackhawks.

 

[fannum]

Bill Barnes Silver Snorter!

 

[SaparotRob]

Bill Barnes Silver Snorter!

Whoa Nelly! If that ain't the bee's knees!

 

[special ed]

I still like the Fletcher FL-2. Most Kiwis should be familiar with Fletcher's planes.

 

[Venomstick121]

Lockheed CL-1201

 

[SaparotRob]

Way cool!

 

[A4K]

That does look nice.

 

[SpicyJuan11]

The main reason SSTs were abandoned, is because of the environmental effect it on the upper atmosphere.

A poor excuse

 

[Admiral Beez]

Hawker P.1052, the swept wing Hawk. First flight was in November 1948, about eleven months after the first MiG-15 flies.

The British government should have expedited its development, ideally getting the swept-tailplane P.1082 into service for Korea.

To get there in time for Korea, we must focus, focus, focus. For a now compressed economy there's no reason for 1945-55's Britain to having separate jet fighter programs at Hawker, Gloster, Vickers-Supermarine and de Havilland. Pick your winners well, and early. For early postwar jets; Sweden had just one, SAAB, and France had just Dassault Aviation. Even the 1950s USSR focused on just two, Mikoyan-Gurevich and Sukhoi, quickly rejecting distracting fighter proposals from Lavochkin and Yakovlev.

 

[Venomstick121]

My favorite looking passenger plane

 

[fannum]

MAIN reason Concorde/Tu144/Boeing SST failed was economic, pure and simple. It couldn't be justified even as a corporate/national image booster.

Ozone was just the media whipping boy of the day, with spray cans, refining plants, and conifer forests all sharing the blame in the activist movements.

 

[A4K]

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My favorite looking passenger plane

My son's favourite too

 

[SaparotRob]

Best looking jet airliner is the Boeing 727-200. Number two is the 727-100.