Dat581,
Couldn't agree more re. the X-32, one would be embarassed to be anywhere near it.
'If it looks right it flies right' - anyone hearing that phrase will instantly think ' Hunter '.
I work at a museum where there's one, and even people completely unassociated with aircraft stop and say " that is beautiful ! "...
Shame it was a cow to work on, but I have to say the most graceful ( rather than power-impressive ) display of flying I'm ever likely to see was a FRADU bloke over the Somerset levels.
He was just enjoying himself taking up the sky, and I may well have been the only aircraft type to see it - a treat unlikely to come again.
For a grin and the sound of a Merlin, try a well known site called something beginning with ' You ', dial in 'Low Spitfire Pass' and turn up the volume, as long as there are no ladies present !