HH, the Nimrod was an OMG shape when it was first revealed and your list almost makes the AEW 3 handsome. :)

Showing a bunch of enthusiasts and their ladies around Tornado several decades ago I was struck by the words of one very well spoken woman who said when we walked into HAS 55 which had been prepared for some Air Power display 'It looks so brutally pugilistic like it's hunched up ready to throw a punch', a phrase which has stayed with me ever since.

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The F-16 is the fighteriest looking fighter jet ever built imo.

Hempy, Hunter with 4x30 mm Aden, clean, no messy stores on pylons

Always though the F-14 looked like a mean SOB personally...

As long as you only look at its good side, the AC130.

How about 4 a burning, 6 a turning?

For me it has to be a Tonka going full belt in 67 wing. My first sight up close was at Farnborough in 1982 and the rest is history...

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XB-71 Waverider.....

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There was also these four....Easy Money, Birth Control, Cost of Living, and Stump Jumper.

Easy Money is on display at the Redstone Arsenal today.



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A7 Corsair



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The Fairchild A-10 hands down. Totally ferocious spewing depleted uranium projectiles from its multi-barrel cannon at incredibly high rate of fire during a ground attack. Not elegant, but all business.

B-58 'Hustler' for me. 'The Doomsday Jet', the huge pod underneath containing the nuke indicative of its sole purpose. The aircraft was not designed to deliver conventional weapons.

Footage of Hustlers was used to represent the 'Vindicator' bombers in the apocalyptic movie 'Fail Safe'.

Trivia alert: the singer John Denver's father commanded a Hustler squadron, mentioned in a description of a typical training mission: look under war stories > typical mission at B-58.com - The B-58 Hustler Page

Reading the article, I found the takeoff and landing speeds eye-watering, and the mission lengths and working environment challenging, to say the least.

Edited to add that John's dad must have been better at fuel management than his son.

Isn't it true that when someone from Boeing criticised the Lancaster as being a 'Bomb Truck', Mr. Chadwick took it as a compliment?

I'd never noticed that before....
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However, to the question at hand....I'll nominate the F-104.

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Maritime maintaining tradition Buster. Surely you noticed a P-3 looks like a Electra (the 188 version just so there is no doubt)..

What of the Shacklebomber with two wicked 20mm in the nose? Better than a sting in the tail.

And a Nimrod looks like a Comet, yes...there's a reason for that you see...

The opinion seems to be that a "real" warplane has to be ugly - what happened to the old dictum that if it looks right it flies right?

Spitfire, Mosquito, Hunter, Sabre, F-16.

In the high and fast arena I'll also vote for the SR-71 Habu - beautiful, black and scary as a Cobra. https://davidjetre.files.wordpress.c...5/05/sr-71.jpg

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