[Spin]

I love the way the Corsair looks.

The Corsair is one the most beautiful plames ever. Insofar as an inanimate object can be beautiful.

[Nikita]

Truly remarkable plane, by far the best in my eyes, will be Russias next heavy fighter once its current planes have reached there maximum service life. It is also the most agile aircraft ever to be flown, it has something technical to do with the FSW on the aircraft.

[BobMarlon]

Hiiiiiiiiiighway to the dangerzone whatever iceman and maverick flew in top gun

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[Thoss]

As mentioned before...


Me-109
Vs


Spitfire. A classic match up. Almosts dead even.


F-16 Fighting Falcon.



You gotta give credit to the Caddilac of the Sky.

[MB.]

As equally mentioned before, the Arrow was a POS.

[Truth-a-naut]

I love how the swastika was taken off that ME-109.

[Comrade Ogilvy]

This looks remarkable similar to the X29. that was invented YEARS ago.





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[Papergut]

For those who aren't blinded with hatred and want to see the huge difference:

[Comrade Ogilvy]

Truly remarkable plane, by far the best in my eyes, will be Russias next heavy fighter once its current planes have reached there maximum service life. It is also the most agile aircraft ever to be flown, it has something technical to do with the FSW on the aircraft.

Please. NASA designed X29 in the period 1984-1992.

[Toynbee_Convector]

Me109 is cool. Heinkels are cool too.

[Batko]

[scooby]

Has to be the Spitfire, a design classic, the engine sound is recognisable anywhere, and it effectively saved this country in a very dark time.

[Unperson-S]

Spitfire didnt come close to saving britain.

The Hurricane was the workhorse of the RAF during WW2, and got hundreds, if not thousands more kills than Spitfires.

Sure, Spitfires are good, but they are incredibly over rated in history.

I think my favourite plane of all time is the Saab Draken.

Hiiiiiiiiiighway to the dangerzone whatever iceman and maverick flew in top gun

I havent seen Topgun for ages, because its a shite movie, but I think you mean the F14. And its a bit silly that you didnt know that, as thats one of the most romantacised (cant spell) planes of the modern jet era, even though theyre arent actually very good, hollywood hypes everything.

[Blondie]

My favorite is definitely the P-51

[Notorious B.i.G.]

Truly remarkable plane

The SU47

No fucking shit! That is the best look plane I have ever seen! Amazing, utterly amazing.

It's not a fighter but my all time favourite would be the XB-70 Valkeriye!

[Thunderhawk]

Corsair looks.


P-80
It came out to late for WW2, had the usual bugs to work out and was a generation or 2 behind Korea so its potential career as a fighter was never really seen. However, I find it quite impressive from an Engineering POV.
From initial design to test flight was less then 5 months. Previously, Little development in the USA was done on jets, yet with some British info, effort and intrest, the USA had produced some intresting designs, leading to the p-80. There is also an intresting bit of Lockheed history, where they were researching various jet engine and jet craft designs on paper since 1939, but no one wanted to fund development. Had they.. who knows what the USA would have flown.



Panavia Tornado not a conventional fighter, and it doesnt look that good either, but I like it for some odd reason.





As for comments made earlier..

P51 and bomber escort:
p51 got alot of press because they got alot of kills and effectively supported the bombers. However, the reasons for this is not mainly because of its performance, but because of changing tactics. Early in the war bomber escorts were ordered to stay close to the bombers - this allowed German fighters to strafe and run, which limited opertunities for escort to get kills while making it easy for germans to get kills.

After a while, a new tactic was adopted: bomber escorts were allowed to detach and confront opposition, to track them down, duke it out, go hunting for enemy aircraft, etc.
This effectively wipied out German air born resistance to bombers, not the improved perfermance of the p51d over the other escorts.





Avro arrow:
Yes, it was an overpriced, overhyped, buggy POS.
.. As were the Voodoos we got to replace them.

[Unperson-S]

The Tornado was designed as a low level attack bomber, and also as a long range interceptor, rather than an agile dog fighter.

Now with such sophisticated missile weaponry, aircraft dont really need to be massively manaueverable, as now all you need is a long range radar, and long range missiles, and your enemy is dead long before they see you.