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

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I think the 5 Series Italian fighters are pretty sexy.

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Fiat G.55 Centauro
http://www.studenten.net/customasp/axl/picture.asp?cat_id=10&ple_id=522&page=1&pte_id=10695

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http://oldwolf.myrice.com/italyaircraft/g-55.htm

Type: Single Seat Fighter

Power plant: One 1,475 hp (1100 kw) Fiat RA.1050 RC.58 Tifone 12-cylinder inverted Vee engine (license built version of the Daimler Benz DB 605A-1).

Performance: Maximum speed 391 mph (630 km/h);
Service ceiling 41,665 ft (12700 m).
Range: 746 miles (1200 km) with internal fuel.


Dimensions:
Span 38 ft 10 1/2 in (11.850 m);
Length 30 ft 9 in (9.37 m);
Height 10 ft 3 1/4 in (3.13 m);
Weight: 8,197 lbs (3718 kg).

Armament: One engine mounted 20 mm Mauser MG 151/20 cannon firing through the propeller, two wing mounted 20 mm Mauser MG 151/20 cannons, and two fuselage mounted 12.7 mm (0.50 in) Breda-SAFAT machine guns plus provision for two 353 lbs (160 kg) bombs on under wing racks
 
I think that the IAR-80 was one of Romania's most beautiful airplanes... Also the Siptfire and the Lightning...
As a bomber I wuold pick the Stuka...:)
 
It was effective to one point... Weak, slow, ill-manuvrable but it was darn good looking... :oops:
 

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"Modern":

F-14 Tomcat. Amazing, amazing looking plane. Maybe the best ever.

Mig 29

SU-27

The Mirages were nice.

Tornados.

F-16s
 
Spitfire: one of the best proportioned fighters ever made in my opinion, from almost any angle. I prefer the looks of the earlier marks to the bubble canopy versions.

P-51D: another nice looking fighter. I like the way the belly scoop underneath mirrors the bubble canopy above...

Mosquito: beautiful, although the way the wing radiators jut from the wing spoil the plan view just slightly for me...

Me 410: I love the design of the nose

And of course the SR-71, a true Buck Rogers plane if ever there was one!
 
Well, if we're sticking to ww2 aircraft only then I'd have to say the horten 229... It's performance figures were outstanding and it was almost certainly the most advanced fighter bomber of the war, it could have changed the out come of the war if Germany fought off invasion for a couple of months...And it had stealth properties!!

Very true : )

I'd also like to mention the bugatti 100 as a very good looking aircraft : )
 
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Don't know if I'd say favorite but I'm a total sucker for planes with counter-rotating props, don't know why most of them look so good to me. Helps that the sound produced by all those blades churning up air is awe-inspiring.

Spitfire Mk XIX:

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Tupolev Tu-95 Bear:

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Avro Shackleton:

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Favorite piston engine fighter to my eye is a tight race between the Tigercat, Lavochkin La-11 or Reggiane Re.2005.

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The Sea Fury and Bearcat appeal to me, too.....

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And the Skyraider and A6M Zero.....

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I could do this all day.
 
Favorite bombers are the A-26 Invader, English Electric/Martin Canberra and Tu-160 Blackjack (which looks like a B-1A at 120% size).

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Single engined fighters (in no particular order):
G.55, Sea Fury, Hayate, Yak-3, Spitfire, La-7
2-engined jobs:
Hornet, Tigercat, P-38, Ta-154, Tu-2
 
The fighters I can't decide on are

Spit XiV
P-51B
F-86F

The F-105 was just big big beautiful ol' Girl that would rip your head off and you couldn't run be down no matter how hard you tried. This was the ultimate "check your 6" fighter down hill out of RP6.

Bomber?
B-17 and B-70 with a nod to B-58

Transport - Super Connie and SST
 
The Lockheed XF-90 was just gorgeous unless non-production counts. I love both the Hawker Hunter and the North American F-86 Sabre about equally.

Otherwise, the Curtiss P-6E Hawk was a beautiful biplane.

Best looking WWII piston for me was about a tie among the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the Reggianne Re.2005, Hughes XR-11 (OK, post-war), and the Republic XF-12 Rainbow (also post-war); I lean toward the Rainbow ... though I like them all, and have to include the de Havilland Hornet and, especially, the FMA I.Ae.30 Namcu, probably the prettiest twin on the planet, despite only 1 being built.
 
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Having gone to Pima museum, I can say with certeinty that the Boeing B47 is the sleekest looking multi engined jet aircraft of all time.
Talking about sleek looking multi engine jet aircrafts, I think few aircrafts beats the combination of beautiful sleek lines and brute force of the M-4 Bison

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