Most Beautiful Aircraft

[Chingachgook]

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[mkloby]

C-17 Globemaster - Cargo planes are not supposed to look cool, but someone failed to tell Boeing this.

She's as sexy as a transport can be! I always loved watching them fly in and out.

 

[Matt308]

C-17? Uh, uh. Nope. Not the Cargomaster III.

Rather the C-133 Cargomaster II. C'mon this plane is brutally handsome. Developed to carry intercontinental ballistic missiles, in its first form it could carry 100,000lbs, 2000nm. Man I love turboprops!

 

[mkloby]

You compare that skank to the C-17!? She's actually not bad looking. I absolutely love turboprops - apparantly it's all I'm really destined to fly, and that's OK by me. The sound when you kick her into reverse after touchdown might be my favorite sound 8)

 

[Soundbreaker Welch?]

IAR 80/81

I like that plane. It looks almost like a corsair in tha tail, FW in the nose.

 

[davparlr]

C-17? Uh, uh. Nope. Not the Cargomaster III.

Rather the C-133 Cargomaster II. C'mon this plane is brutally handsome. Developed to carry intercontinental ballistic missiles, in its first form it could carry 100,000lbs, 2000nm. Man I love turboprops!

Nice looking but a miserable failure. It had the bad habit of falling apart in the sky. Killed some good men.

If you like airlifters, a real winner is the C-141!

 

[Chingachgook]

nice, but a bit of a flying tube.

 

[Chingachgook]

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[Chingachgook]

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[mkloby]

See that's what I'm talking about! C-17 kicks ass!

 

[Gnomey]

Yep!

Another one I like.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the C-17 is stunningly beautiful, but as for the sidewinders?

 

[Chingachgook]

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[Chingachgook]

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[the lancaster kicks ass]

never knew about the missiles, we certainly don't do it, and yes with those wings it is..........

 

[Gnomey]

Yeah that is a Spiteful.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

no spitfire is she........

 

[Chingachgook]

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[Matt308]

Grob. Looks to much like so many other airplanes (eg Swearingen J-30, etc).

How about the Ratheon-Beechcraft Starship. What a shame that this was a short run. And then the travesty of chopping up all the airframes. My God.

 

[pbfoot]

I haven't seen this pretty bird mentioned the famous TB 1 RD