Best looking a/c ever
 

Well we've had every other list; best at LL; fastest; blah blah
But what about the best looking? Simple rules; The Hunter does not qualify in any way since it is UGLY. Old gits, get this into your port addled brains; it is not the last of the sports cars! It is the last of the dull, boring models. The decider is; What would you like to strap on right now for 1 hr of GH, based solely on it's looks?
Typhoon? Very sexy
F3 - Nah
F18 resembles a pig
Harrier - squat, tiny, zzz
GR4 ha ha
Jaguar - pretty nice actually
Lightning - Cool
F4 muscular freak
Buc - bent (obviously)
F15 - maybe
F14 - YES! until the wings are fwd
Spit - of course!

Overall, my vote goes to the Typhoon. Very Sophisticated. Really nice looking jet.

And the daftest? JPmk3. Like a pregnant sow, only slower, and significantly louder.
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For my money it's a split decision between the Spit Mk5/9 and the P 51D...If I had the moolah either would do!

Spitfire XIX

Everything else is just pugs......

The Spit was a honey, no two ways about that. So was the twin engined Supermarine racing thing which came out before the war....anyone know what it was called?

Actually I have something of a fondness for twins.... the Mosquito, the P-38, various Beechcraft, even the ME262.

But best looking of all? Hell, that's a hard one.

Concorde?
Mirage V?
Jag...yeah, good call

But my money goes on the Viggen. What a sexy beast.....
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DH Mossie!

Style, speed, birch ply! Just; like a flying drumkit.

Mossie? Nice try, but then they made it really pretty and produced the Hornet.

The Hunter was nice looking, but the P1081 (basically a swept Sea Hawk with Hunter-type back end) looked nicer, and the Sea Hawk nicer still.

Viggen? If you think that's good looking I'd hate to see your Mrs! The Swedes don't do good looking, they do purposeful. The Gripen's not bad, I suppose, though.

The Jag looks nice from some angles, but not others.

Not that i'm a great lover of the French, but it has to be the Rafael. Poetry in motion.

I know it's not pointy, but my vote goes for the Vickers Funbus.

Also for the noise (almost a note) it makes at idle, and the full-on noisy crackle on a cold morning in Oxon (actually miss being woken up by it).

What about the Frogfoot or Warthog? Not what you'd call conventionally attractive but both have a certain something about them. Thinking bigger, how about the Valkyrie or Lancer

The Mk 2 Spit has got to have the best lines and the best pedigree.

Of all the jets the banned Hunter is without doubt the best looking fighter but if it is disqualified then the F86 is next.

If it looks right it always does the job well - does anyone think the Typhoon looks right?

Nicest Spits: Mk VIII with pinty tail, Mk XI, and Mk XVIII with bubble canopy.

Nicest Hawker pistons: Fury (obviously, though the Gauntlet was prettier) and the Sea Fury.

Nicest twins: Canberra, Hornet, Whirlwind

F4u Corsair..and on the civ side the Beech Staggerwing

F4U? Westy! You are on drugs.....

Come on guys, its got to be the B1 Lancer. Its impossible to resist watching if theres one in the air, sexy sleek body, packs a punch, roars like a lion and goes like the clappers.

Shes like those Women that your mother always warned you about...

I always had an admiration for the Supermarine S6b, the one that won the Schneider trophy for the 3rd and final time.

http://www.airracinghistory.freeola.com/Schneider.htm

Not necessarily pretty, but truly classic lines, and what a pedigree!

I'm with Genghis on the Valkyrie, probably the most extraordinary looking aircraft, certainly for it's time.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/mf37.htm

all this and M3.1 at FL730 - wow:eek:

B-1, wings in either position, lovely aircraft whether at 500 knots or 15 taxying.

DH 88 Comet
DH Hornet
Super VC10
Concorde
Spitfire XIX
Gnat
Dart 15






............and, bo££eaux to you all, Hawker Hunter F Mk 6!!

Mig 21-----very sexy.

What about the Vulcan?

Strikemaster -- Constant speed, variable noise.

BAC 1-11 -- Variable speed, variable noise.:)