Your favorite post-war aircraft

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well my all time favourite post WWII aircraft would be the vulcan.........

and i happen to like the tornado, very good looking...........

 

[mosquitoman]

For me it has to be either the Harrier, Vulcan, Canberra or the Stratofortess

 

[Viper]

Ill take an F-14 anyday over anything and take on anything with it
but post war id say the supersonic valkarie, superhornet F-18, F-15 and the new F-35, the A-10 warthog.

 

[evangilder]

Here are some shots from my collection of the Valkyrie

 

[Viper]

it was one hell of a plane, i had a hard time finding pic of it though

 

[Nonskimmer]

Christ! You'd go from Halifax to San Diego in about ten minutes!

Well not really, but it'd sure be fast! 8)

 

[Viper]

ya, shame it was decommosioned

 

[evangilder]

One of my earliest childhood memories is of my dad taking me to see it land for the very lat time at Wright Patterson. I was just shy of three years old, but I still remember seeing that big bird land. There were cars parked up and down the street by the runway to see it. Anyway, here are the specs:

SPECIFICATIONS
Span: 105 ft.
Length: 185 ft. 10 in. without boom; 192 ft. 2 in. with boom
Height: 30 ft. 9 in.
Weight: 534,700 lbs. loaded
Armament: None
Engines: Six General Electric YJ-93s of 30,000 lbs. thrust each with afterburner.
PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed: 2,056 mph. (Mach 3.1) at 73,000 ft.
Cruising speed: 2,000 mph. (Mach 3.0) at 72,000 ft.
Range: 4,288 miles
Service Ceiling: 77,350 ft.

Source: USAF Museum

 

[cheddar cheese]

I love the XB-70...great looking plane and phenomenal performance.

 

[trackend]

my choice fellas
TSR2
Lightning
Harrier
B52
Blackbird
A10

707 Cause it was the first jet I flew in (big leap forward)
747 Transport revolutionary plane

 

[cheddar cheese]

Ah the A-10...great plane 8)

 

[trackend]

nasty little beast

 

[cheddar cheese]

Where did you get that TSR2 pic? Ive been looking for a flying TSR2 pic for AGES! Im stealing that one for myself

 

[trackend]

Duxford web site
http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/

 

[mosquitoman]

They've got one there

 

[trackend]

yup quite a machine in its day

 

[cheddar cheese]

Or it would have been if the project wasnt cancelled...damn government...

 

[trackend]

well it all came out of our taxes and in those days we had other priorities

 

[Nonskimmer]

A truly awesome machine! So advanced for it's day, in fact, that I would imagine the sheer cost of trying to mass produce it for the air force would all but bankrupt the country. Too bad, really.

 

[plan_D]

I doubt it would have bankrupt the country, I bet it wasn't even as expensive as the Tornado. Now, THAT'S an expensive pile of junk. At least the TSR.2 was good.