Your Favourite Aircraft

IrishAirCorps

So in your eyes what is the sexiest Aircraft going? Civillian or Military! For me its the Prowler, looks hot and damit if i won the Euromillions it would be my "Executive Jet" me and 3 passengers!:D


NOT MY PICS, taken from www.airshows.co.uk

De-Militarised of Course! :-)

punchdrunk

punchdrunk

punchdrunk

one more!

Manic Moran

For some reason, none of the current-service aircraft really appeal to my eye, with one exception:

F-14 in Iranian colours.


Going back a couple of years...
Saab Viggen in splinter scheme.
F-4 Phantom II in Vietnam four-colour.
F-111 Aardvark in four-colour.

NTM

Kaiser_Sma

Oh yeah Mig 25 in the dirt gets my rocks off. It's all sand and valves

thesweeney

Its always gotta be the tomcat for me if Im going fixed wing. But its rotary all the way...cliche I know but apache is a sexy beast of a thing.

Zaph

It could never be called sexy, but there's just something about the A-10 that I really like

FiSe

..and this one will do for me

Zaph

Nice. Always preferred them to the Me-109

Sundy

http://www.world-war-2-planes.com/handley-page-halifax.html

Not exactly sexy but but a awe inspiring plane none the less. had many an airfix of it!

Kaiser_Sma

The A-10 is strangly penis shaped though.

The Apache is hot, despite what pains they went through to make it look as ugly as possible

Zaph

Kaiser_Sma wrote:

The A-10 is strangly penis shaped though.

Are you trying to imply something about my choice of plane?

FiSe

ooops, FW's nice, but I meant this lady

IrishAirCorps

Hey Fise welcome its me Fouga from Franks site!:D

piraka

Two of my favorite aircraft

valkyrie in-flight.jpg

sr71c.jpg

FiSe

IrishAirCorps wrote:

Hey Fise welcome its me Fouga from Franks site!:D

Hi, See you there ... as well

Clare gunner

B29 Super fortress.A really sleek design
A10 tank destroyer
Harrier jump jet

Maskhadov

My favourite aircraft of all time was the F 14 Tomcat. I loved this aircraft, was actually sad to see it retire:(




(The last American F-14 Tomcat aircraft to fly a combat mission arrives on board Sherman Field at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.)

punchdrunk

ah maskhadov the jolly rogers scheme looks well cooler on the super hornet than the tomcat!!

IrishAirCorps

The last F14 landing on a carrier took place a few days ago!:mad:

anthony4335

Surprised at the lack ot WW2 aircraft ,for me it has to be the P51 Mustang,

Second Supermarine spitfire mk 9

The Bollox

the SU-47 is the ephianny of sexy, jet black and forward swept wings, what more could you ask for?

IrishAirCorps

What about the Spitfire in Irish Air Corps Colours? IAC 161!:D

jcatony

Su 30Su30MkClimbing.jpg was always my favorite.

IrishAirCorps

I always liked the Sukhoi SU34 "PLATYPUS" behind the two crew seats in the humped fuselage is a food galley and Toilet! I guess it was needed for the Long Range Missions ?

Manic Moran

More or less. It's an interdiction strike aircraft, replaces the Su-24 Fencer (The Mini-F-111)

NTM

daveg

Only 1 aircraft for me... If only for the noise and the swept wings...

cyrusdvirus

The XB70 was sexy.
The B1B has something sleek and menacing about it.
The F15E looks mean and nasty and like it'd swat you from the sky.

But it's just no competition. Always got to be the Tomcat.

Rotary? The MH53. The Caesar of CSAR

enda1

XR-71 Blackbird, no question.

Fastest and most beautiful and coolest aircraft ever built.

cyrusdvirus

enda1 wrote:

XR-71 Blackbird, no question.

Fastest and most beautiful and coolest aircraft ever built.

Nah. The blackbird is a cool ship and no doubt (anything that can do a mile every 1.5 seconds is by that fact alone cool) but it's just that bit too impersonal for me. The tomcat looks like it has character, the Habu just flew straight and level. (at Mach 3 )

Scruff

5000 of these beauties built.

doubledown

F-14 Tomcat has always and will always be my favourite.

Takeshi_Kovacs

enda1 wrote:

XR-71 Blackbird, no question.

Fastest and most beautiful and coolest aircraft ever built.

Yep damn nice... just checked up on it on wikipedia, some fascinating facts about it,, (..they used USSR titanium to build the airframe.., it also cost on average, $25,000 per hour to run!!)
Sweet machine all the same

Dyr

Not sexy but a favourite..heinkel 219 night fighter



the A-20 Havoc




and definitely sexeh..the P-61

rushbrooke

Hello out ther,
Has anybody any info on Fougs Super Magisters operating out of Baldonnell in the late 1960's...plane may have been on loan from Potez Aerospace

coyote6

I've always loved the A-10 Warthog. A flying tank. These things are a blast to watch and they sound like Star Wars X-Wing fighters!

coyote6

IrishAirCorps wrote:

I always liked the Sukhoi SU34 "PLATYPUS" behind the two crew seats in the humped fuselage is a food galley and Toilet! I guess it was needed for the Long Range Missions ?

Boris: I need to take a sh@#ski.
Ivan: While you're at it make me a sandwich and a vodka!

Peteee

Favourite US Fighter.



Tornado, Because it lit its burners above me at an airshow years ago.



YF-23, because...well just look at it!



2.1 BILLION US dollars per aircraft. Hardcore!

mirage37

Tupolev Bear all the way. sexiest prop plane ever.


for jet fighters, I like the more classical mig-21 and 23. this does have to do with being an F18 Hornet Korea Gold (flight sim) addict.



best world war 2 bird:

LegacyUser

mine would be the Su 30 Flanker.

GerryRyan

Irish Air Corps
SIAI Marchetti SF260WE Warrior, 229

Some call it ugly - but just something about it.

LegacyUser

as far as the old warbirds go its the Supermarine Spitfire. the lines are just gorgeous...the sound from the RR merlin engine just gives you shivers down your spine....the P51 is a close second...I just love it.