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Your Favourite Aircraft

  • 08-08-2006 5:46pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭


    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! :-)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    one more!

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,449 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


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

    F-14 in Iranian colours.
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    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Kaiser_Sma


    Mig25_buried_in_iraq.jpg

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,333 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭FiSe


    ..and this one will do for me


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,333 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Nice. Always preferred them to the Me-109


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭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!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,333 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Kaiser_Sma wrote:
    The A-10 is strangly penis shaped though.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭FiSe


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭IrishAirCorps


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭piraka


    Two of my favorite aircraft

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭FiSe


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

    Hi, See you there ... as well ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Clare gunner


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Maskhadov


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

    f1411.jpg

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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭IrishAirCorps


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭anthony4335


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

    Second Supermarine spitfire mk 9


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭IrishAirCorps


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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭jcatony


    Su 30Su30MkClimbing.jpg was always my favorite.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭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 ? :D



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,449 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


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

    NTM


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    XR-71 Blackbird, no question.

    Fastest and most beautiful and coolest aircraft ever built.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    enda1 wrote:
    XR-71 Blackbird, no question.

    Fastest and most beautiful and coolest aircraft ever built.

    xr71blackbird.jpg

    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 ;) )


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