Most beautiful fighter, bomber, and any kind of airplanes!!!

Marcel · Sep 23, 2012

Talk about a dead and burried thread coming alive again

My preference for multi-engined fighter is of course the Fokker G.1 Mercury. (I'm dutch, can't help it).

Single engine is more difficult. I always liked the IAR aircraft, but I also like the Brewster Buffalo. Who would not like a barrel of beer with wings? And the Hurricane is also a contender.

The Hunter is the best looking jet-fighter ever. No argue about that.

Bomber, I would say the Glen Martin B-10.

syscom3 · Sep 23, 2012

A B47 with sleek looking pods holding the engines, will beat the horrible looking inlets on the "Bison"

ShVAK · Sep 23, 2012

Favorite jet fighters in terms of looks are the Hawker Hunter (good to see so much love for it in this thread, it really is a beautiful ship), Gloster Meteor, F-86 Sabre, F-106 Delta Dart, Saab 35 Draken, Su-15 Flagon and MiG-17. F-111 is a little awkward from the overhead angle but I love how it looks in profile.

I'm not crazy about the looks of most fourth-gen jet fighters (too similar IMO) but the F-14 and F-15 (particularly in the E's deep gray paint scheme) are attractive and exude raw power and grace in equal quantity.

MiG-31 looks pretty good too despite being a friggin' flying bus (it weighs more than a Tu-134 airliner!). We'll call her "plus-sized."

meatloaf109 · Sep 23, 2012

Willy's 109, the B-47, and the Rumpler Taube

ShVAK · Sep 23, 2012

Also this barely counts as military, but the hands down champ of the Most Beautiful Plane award has to be the Beech Model 17 Staggerwing. Not even an olive drab paint scheme can ruin it.

ShVAK · Sep 23, 2012

.... and the Boeing P-26 Peashooter might be 2nd.

spicmart · Sep 23, 2012

Modern Jets:

The first three are modern Sukhoi fighters:

Flankers (without canards to spoil the lines please), curved lines like a swan or a women, just as you like it. These things are pure sex!

S-47 Berkut (Golden Eagle). Its looks live up to its name.

In contrast to the fugly F-22 the PAK-FA T-50 has the right edges and proportions in the right places.
In the second image you can see clearly the Sukhoi lineage, quite Flanker-like.

This one also looks much more elegant than the uncool looking F-22 (just my opinion!).
Too bad that the YF-23 didn't make it.

This here looks like an Eurofighter on steroids but while the EF sucks lookwise IMO
the MiG 1.44 exudes raw brutality. Normally I don't dig canard designs but this one rocks.

tyrodtom · Sep 23, 2012

I'd separate it into eras.
WW1, Albatross DV, or Pfalz DIII,
Interwar, P6E or P26
WW2 , early Spitfire, or Zero A6M5
Postwar, Hawker Hunter or F-86
civilian, Beeechcraft Staggerwing, or Cessna 190
Can't think of anything modern that I consider beautiful
overall it's a hard choice, i've flown in a Staggerwing, but the beauty of the Spitfire is hard to ignore.

ShVAK · Sep 23, 2012

spicmart said:
Flankers (without canards to spoil the lines please), curved lines like a swan or a women, just as you like it. These things are pure sex!

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Damn right, I forgot about the Flanker. Sukhoi has made some beautiful jets.

Can't share your feelings with the MiG 1.44. Thing is fugly.

spicmart · Sep 23, 2012

ShVAK said:
Also this barely counts as military, but the hands down champ of the Most Beautiful Plane award has to be the Beech Model 17 Staggerwing. Not even an olive drab paint scheme can ruin it.

Wow, this one makes biplanes look cool. Could be a fighter in real or a fighter design in Star Wars.

ShVAK · Sep 23, 2012

I dunno about fighter but they did race Staggerwings in the '30s, quite successfully too.

spicmart · Sep 23, 2012

ShVAK said:
Can't share your feelings with the MiG 1.44. Thing is fugly.

Guess most people think that way. I like it with this monster of an air intake that is separate from the front fuselage.

Husky · Apr 21, 2018

GregP · Apr 23, 2018

Here's a pretty one ... Republic XP-12 Rainbow ...

Always DID like the lines of it as well as the lines of this one ... Hughes XF-11 ...

Not the most celebrated aircraft, but surely quite aesthetic ones.

blueskies · Apr 23, 2018

These two for best 4 engine civilians of the 30s

gumbyk · Apr 23, 2018

Marcel said:
Talk about a dead and burried thread coming alive again

Aaaaand it's back (again....)

Razgriz1 · Apr 24, 2018

My favourite jets looks wise are the Mirages (III, F1, 2000). Never knew angles could look so elegant.

Can't forget the Hawker Hunter:

C.Warren · Apr 24, 2018

Hi,
Personnely thing the DH Comet fits the bill.

soulezoo · Apr 24, 2018

There are so many worthy entries.

I'll have to go with SR-71. With a C-141B as a honorable mention. (Personal reasons of course!)

Glider · Apr 24, 2018

All your high powered jets don't hold a candle to a Glider

If you want an exhilarating experience try this. I didn't take these shots but I did do a bungee launch in this glider a number of years ago at the Midlnd Gliding Club. Just to the left of this photo is an almost shear cliff. The glider doesn't have the speed to climb so you basically go off the edge of the cliff and drop until you get the speed up to climb.
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