What's your favourite plane?
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An aircraft is an aircraft. All this talk of the best jet airliner etc is just more of the same - its what you can DO with the machine that matters, and if it looks the part, then all the better.
This is my fave...C208
This is my fave...C208
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Thanks for your replies and stories.
There are now 5 catagories to vote in:
1. Overall Favourite
2. Military Favourite
3. Civil Airline Favourite (More than 19 seats)
4. Civil Other Favourite
5. Helicopter Favourite
You dont have to vote in all catagories.
Results so far:
Overall Favourite
Avro Vulcan
Military Favourite
Avro Vulcan
Civil Airline Favourite
Airbus A320 Family
Civil Other Favourite
No clear favourite
Helicopter Favoutire
No clear favourite
There are now 5 catagories to vote in:
1. Overall Favourite
2. Military Favourite
3. Civil Airline Favourite (More than 19 seats)
4. Civil Other Favourite
5. Helicopter Favourite
You dont have to vote in all catagories.
Results so far:
Overall Favourite
Avro Vulcan
Military Favourite
Avro Vulcan
Civil Airline Favourite
Airbus A320 Family
Civil Other Favourite
No clear favourite
Helicopter Favoutire
No clear favourite
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OK, picking the SEXIEST damned aeroplane ever created, it goes to the DeHavilland DH103 Hornet.
Using your template:
Overall: DH103 Hornet
Military: Dh103 Hornet
Civilian Airliner: 757
Civilian other: DH-60 Gypsy Moth
Helicopter: huh? Do helicopters EVER count? No such thing as a good looking helicopter. Sheesh. NO VOTE!
Using your template:
Overall: DH103 Hornet
Military: Dh103 Hornet
Civilian Airliner: 757
Civilian other: DH-60 Gypsy Moth
Helicopter: huh? Do helicopters EVER count? No such thing as a good looking helicopter. Sheesh. NO VOTE!
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civil - B747-400
mil- EE Lightning the climber to beat , pity about the fuel tank capacity
Helicopter - MD explorer - like a biz jet to fly in http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=116
mil- EE Lightning the climber to beat , pity about the fuel tank capacity
Helicopter - MD explorer - like a biz jet to fly in http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=116
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The Avro Vulcan rapidly became an extension of your nervous system and you merged as one. No 1 by a long stretch.
Keep one flying.
Of the 3 Vs, the Valiant was a good bomb truck and the Victor felt as though it was bendy and would break too easily
After Vulcan comes F-111 for that feeling of brute power and capability all wrapped up then P51 Mustang for the best prop driven and out of 100 types I still have a soft spot for the old Gooney Bird.
Keep one flying.
Of the 3 Vs, the Valiant was a good bomb truck and the Victor felt as though it was bendy and would break too easily
After Vulcan comes F-111 for that feeling of brute power and capability all wrapped up then P51 Mustang for the best prop driven and out of 100 types I still have a soft spot for the old Gooney Bird.
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my favourite plane
my favourite plane is a spitfire or should i say my mums..she was in the ack/ack during the war on the guns as a plotter..she has told me many times how proud she felt seeing the spitfires flying overhead..of course there were other planes but they seemed to stick in her mind..the nearest i get to one is flying a spitfire on my pc..or is that really sad..
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A B29 followed by one of the OLD Boeing b314 flying boats of the 1930s... I was lucky enough to watch "Fifi" take flight out of Akron Muni following this past year's airshow. That sight will be with me for some time.
Yet to be back in the day when the 314 would fly to Pearl Harbor's Middle Loch and come to dock... That must have been quite something to watch as well.
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Yet to be back in the day when the 314 would fly to Pearl Harbor's Middle Loch and come to dock... That must have been quite something to watch as well.
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#1.as my user name suggests, the 737.small and slick, although the a319/320/321 are nice, they do not do it for me.the 737 is a classic.
#2.The a310 was always a favourite and i was lucky to undertake a jump seat ride in one a few years back.sadly you dont see too many of them these days.
#3.727
#4.Trident (what an absolute beauty!)
p.s i think the boeing 7E7 is the most disgustingly ugly thing i have ever seen and i will certainly not be one looking up when it flys over.Brute not beaut.
#2.The a310 was always a favourite and i was lucky to undertake a jump seat ride in one a few years back.sadly you dont see too many of them these days.
#3.727
#4.Trident (what an absolute beauty!)
p.s i think the boeing 7E7 is the most disgustingly ugly thing i have ever seen and i will certainly not be one looking up when it flys over.Brute not beaut.
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Happily live close to Warplane Heritage Museum and the sound of the Harvard IV is unmistakeable. The beauty of the Lancaster Bomber in flight is breathtaking!
On a more recent note, I love the 747 and the Antonov An-225
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On a more recent note, I love the 747 and the Antonov An-225
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For me it has to be the Phabulously Phantasmic Phantom.
First time I saw one for real was as a spotty 14 year old. Damn thing woke me one summers morning - low enough over the house to read the reg on the wing. What a sound - and sight.
Now in my early forties and been in love with the F4 ever since...
First time I saw one for real was as a spotty 14 year old. Damn thing woke me one summers morning - low enough over the house to read the reg on the wing. What a sound - and sight.
Now in my early forties and been in love with the F4 ever since...
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Spacecowbhoy, the MD900 looks like a box on a spit. Of course all helicopters are wonderful, but looks aren't the strong point of every one. The MD500E (520 tail is too thick) and the A109 are fairly swoopy, but the winner in every category has to be the Bell 206 JetRanger. (Alright, for FW it could be the Frightning. But best overall must be the JetBox. At least I've actually flown one of those.)