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

DAVIDICUS · Mar 22, 2005

I think the 5 Series Italian fighters are pretty sexy.

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

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

hellmaker · Mar 22, 2005

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...

mosquitoman · Mar 22, 2005

Stuka, are you nuts?
You'd get shot down by almost anything

the lancaster kicks ass · Mar 22, 2005

yeah but she did look very good.........

cheddar cheese · Mar 22, 2005

Not good, just intimidating.

YEah me is with DAVIDICUS, Italian fighters look great! 8)

hellmaker · Mar 23, 2005

It was effective to one point... Weak, slow, ill-manuvrable but it was darn good looking...

cheddar cheese · Mar 23, 2005

You could have at least got a picture of a real one..

In Italian markings, of course! 8)

the lancaster kicks ass · Mar 23, 2005

well what else.........

DLANGPAP · Apr 18, 2009

"Modern":

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

Mig 29

SU-27

The Mirages were nice.

Tornados.

F-16s

ehup · Apr 19, 2009

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!

kration · Apr 19, 2009

de Havilland DH.103 Hornet - difficult to be more beautiful than a mosquito, but it achieves it.

Tethra · Sep 22, 2012

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 : )

ShVAK · Sep 22, 2012

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:

Tupolev Tu-95 Bear:

Avro Shackleton:

ShVAK · Sep 22, 2012

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

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

And the Skyraider and A6M Zero.....

I could do this all day.

ShVAK · Sep 22, 2012

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

tomo pauk · Sep 22, 2012

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

drgondog · Sep 22, 2012

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

syscom3 · Sep 23, 2012

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.

GregP · Sep 23, 2012

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.

msxyz · Sep 23, 2012

syscom3 said:
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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