Most Beautiful Aircraft

[Nonskimmer]

plain simple and exceptionally booring, maybe someone should introduce to its designer the concept of a curve! and i like the air intake on the back, i think it'd look stupid on the vulcan but it works on the 707.........

u said ur tired of curves thats why you like french bomers

Ooooooh, fightin' words.

 

[Gnomey]

plain simple and exceptionally booring, maybe someone should introduce to its designer the concept of a curve! and i like the air intake on the back, i think it'd look stupid on the vulcan but it works on the 707.........

u said ur tired of curves thats why you like french bomers

Ooooooh, fightin' words.

It is true though that is Lanc's sole reason for liking them...

 

[Bachgyn Bach]

IMHO the most beautiful aircraft ever is Spitfire.I have admit that Mitchell created the plane with feminine "body". Have to mension Dewoitine D.520, MB-5, Mosquito, DH Hornet, G.55, "Yankee Pony", Polish PZL-37 Łoś (Elk) bomber, Hawker Sea Fury and Foce Wulf "Butcher"FW-190.
Modern "Hairdryers" are ugly. I don't like any.

 

[Wildcat]

Here are two of my choices.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Ca.310 is nice as well...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

good lord look at that landing gear...........

and i only get boored of curves sometimes, i could look at the lanc's curves all day, and frequently do.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

By curves do you mean that big ol' wart on the nose?

 

[davparlr]

Love this topic. Some planes I've thought were great looking. Sorry if they are mostly USA. I don't know too much about other countries.

by category.

WWI

SPAD
Albatros

Biplanes

Boeing P-6E

Pre-War

Hughes H-1

WWII

He100
FW190 (some claim inspired by H-1)
Zero (some claim inspired by H-1)
XP-67

Jets

F-106 Delta Dart
B-58 (without pod) Hustler
A-5A Vigilante
T-38 Talon "White Rocket"

And my favorite from my childhood model making days

F8U Crusader

And, if beauty is carrying one through a tour of duty safely (this is definitely subjective!)

C-141A Starlifter

 

[cheddar cheese]

Nice choices!

In terms of WWI aircraft I think the SE5a looks great as well.

 

[davparlr]

Yeah, the SE5a was always one of my favorite planes. A functional beauty. To me, It kind of falls in the category of the F-4 phantom and F-15 Eagle, "Don't call me beautiful, let's just go and fight!"

 

[loomaluftwaffe]

German WWI planes are beautiful, especially the albatross-type

 

[Gnomey]

Yep, most WW1 planes are good looking, then things got worse during the interwar years (although fighters generally look good all the time) before getting better during WW2 and generally staying level after that...

 

[loomaluftwaffe]

Ive heard of the "pullman", what looks like a buss in the middle of triplane wings, and four WWI-style landing gears, it took like around a few prototypes before it could (barely) fly

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

By curves do you mean that big ol' wart on the nose?

i prefer to think of it as a beauty spot...........

 

[loomaluftwaffe]

you like big old warts on noses? including people's?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it's not a wart, a wart implies it is unwanted and ugly, which it most cirtainly is not........

 

[SpitTrop]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

 

[cheddar cheese]

Ki-46 is a good looking plane too...

 

[Gnomey]

Yep, especially the later versions...

Early

Late

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i've always thought she looks wrong.........