Now for something completely different... XB-70 Valkyrie. I wouldn't say it's my favorite but an article in Boy's Life (Flight of the Valkyrie, 1962) inspired my interest in aviation. It was the USS Enterprise of the era.

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Favorite cute-ugly/failure, XF-85 Goblin. I sure as hell wouldn't want to fly one. I saw one on static display at Offutt and I can't imagine that the short coupled little thing could be controlled. All before fly by wire so no computer help no less.

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The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.