Most Beautiful Aircraft

• Jan 10, 2007

• #301

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Chingachgook

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Nov 20, 2006

X

 

• Jan 10, 2007

• #302

mkloby

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Chingachgook said:

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

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

 

• Jan 10, 2007

• #303

Matt308

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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!

 

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• Jan 10, 2007

• #304

mkloby

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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)

 

• Jan 11, 2007

• #305

Soundbreaker Welch?

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Feb 8, 2006

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IAR 80/81

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

 

• Jan 11, 2007

• #306

davparlr

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Matt308 said:

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!

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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!

 

• Jan 11, 2007

• #307

C

Chingachgook

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Nov 20, 2006

nice, but a bit of a flying tube.

 

• Jan 11, 2007

• #308

C

Chingachgook

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Nov 20, 2006

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• Jan 11, 2007

• #309

C

Chingachgook

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Nov 20, 2006

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• Jan 12, 2007

• #310

mkloby

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

 

• Jan 12, 2007

• #311

Gnomey

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Yep!

Another one I like.

 

• Jan 12, 2007

• #312

the lancaster kicks ass

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

 

• Jan 12, 2007

• #313

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Chingachgook

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• Jan 12, 2007

• #314

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Chingachgook

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• Jan 12, 2007

• #315

the lancaster kicks ass

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

 

• Jan 12, 2007

• #316

Gnomey

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Yeah that is a Spiteful.

 

• Jan 12, 2007

• #317

the lancaster kicks ass

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Dec 20, 2003

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

 

• Jan 12, 2007

• #318

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Chingachgook

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Nov 20, 2006

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• Jan 12, 2007

• #319

Matt308

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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.

 

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• Jan 12, 2007

• #320

pbfoot

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niagara falls

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

 

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