Originally Posted by
KenV
Two comments:
2. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For quite a few folks the last "good looking" airplane was the Spitfire. Maybe the Mustang. After that everything "looks ugly." Beauty is a lousy and very subjective metric.
Indeed. For instance, I think the D.H. Hornet was the most beautiful aircraft ever (though not the NF.21 with its thimble nose), closely followed by its predecessor the Mosquito. The Spitfire was pretty good looking, but not as good as those.
Sadly these days I have to get my fix from the occasional Mossie. There's no extant Hornets.
Now I wonder who could use a fast, two engined, nimble and long legged load lugger with the ability to drop a serious load?