Originally Posted by
ORAC
The opinion seems to be that a "real" warplane has to be ugly
War is ugly.
We weren't asked for the prettiest plane, or the most graceful, or anything like that, which would rightly yield the names you're talking about. The thread asks for warplane, which to me conjures up the image of a gnarled, grizzly, battered, hairy chested plane. The types for which there is beauty in their ugliness.
Happy to yield to the floor if there's a disagreement, but the comments so far seem to follow the same pattern.