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Thanks. That puppy is a beauty.

F-14D Super Tomcat; absolutely one of the most awe inspiring experiences one can have is to see, hear & FEEL a F-14 go full burner vertical.

But the coolest ever still has to be the P-51.

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F-14 Demo by Dale Snodgrass

I hope these pics show up. This is my son standing in front of a couple of nice ones at the Fairmont Ne air show in 2009 I believe.

F4U, Spitfire, P-51, ME-109, B-52, A-10, F-14, F-14, SR-71.

Ed

B-29 and F-111

I thought we were judging on aesthetics and design, not dirty deeds.
I think a lot of German and Japanese civilians don't like the B17 or B29.
OK I will change my choice to Air Force One w/Obama on it.
How is that for ruining a beautiful airplane.

It was just meant as a humorous comment.

My apologies if it gave offense.

My apologies. 8 hours in the Phoenix heat every day shortens my temper.
No offense taken at all.
I like any and ALL planes and make a point to stop whatever I am doing to enjoy their beauty.

Take care,
Brad

LMAO
That's funny ....!

I like the Chance Vought F4-U Corsair

I also must add the C-46 as Dad was a radio operator on it as well as a B-29 during WWII. Carrying twenty-two 55 gallon barrels of gas in a C-46 while flying over the "Hump" was spooky to him for good reasons. They were constantly on the lookout for Jap fighters.

Albatros-D-111 but it has to be painted red.

C-119 Flying Boxcar. She wasn't pretty, but she was a worker. My dad was FE during the Korean War.

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F-15E



Few years ago in an unfriendly country. The Hindu Cush does have some nice mountains.



Current trip at a location much nicer.

These two twin-engine fighters were among the best of WWII, and among my personal favorites. I'd give my left nut to fly either of them...

P 47D and P 47N Thunderbolts for Army Air Force...

F4U-1C and F4U-4 for Marine Corp, Navy

FW 190 for the Luftwaffe

Spitfire & Mosquito for the RAF....

Early war 'soldiers'.. Hurricane and P 40

World War 1:

Sopwith Camel...




Fokker TriPlane for Germans: Verner Voss's Fokker TriPlane



Americans & French: SPAD

America's Greatest WW 1 Ace: Frank Luke

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.





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.

I'll be damned. According to that tail number, I worked (okay, cleaned and waxed - a lot) on that N.A. P-51D in the mid 80's. N51 Echo Hotel. It had stars and bars then. It was purchased IIRC from the Dominican Republic Air Force. In return for my expert schlepping, I would get rides in the very small, actually no back seat - you sat on the parachute - of that old bird. I remember at Oshkosh (the one time that he took me) everyone was leaving Sunday afternoon. There must have been 50 planes in que. My buddy radios the tower "we're running hot", up to the front we go and take off. The tower asked for a fly by. He dipped his wings and banked east towards home. That was very cool.

He sold the P-51 to get an L-39C Albatros and flew it back to the States with Bob Lutz, at the time the CEO of Chrysler, who bought one too. Sadly, my buddy, the plane's owner and pilot, died taking off in his L-39 in Alabama in the early 2000s.

My dad marched across Africa and Europe in Patton's infantry during WWII, and when asked which Axis plane he feared the most, it was the Ju-87 Stuka. There ain't an infantryman alive that doesn't hate an opposing ground pounder. Dad talked of the dive whistles they had on them which made them scream. Made the men on the ground scream too-it literally drove some of them crazy. When the Stuka's came in, Dad said they'd throw up so much machine gun, AA, and small arms fire, it'd look like you could walk on the tracers, and most of the Krauts still made it through. One didn't-Dad's unit got straffed and dive bombed one time by the Stukas and they managed to knock one down. When the schidt died down, Dad went and found the wreck and pulled a tail light beacon off it. That, and some trench art, a crude ring fashioned out of some fine German tubular aluminum from that plane wreck are two of my most favored possessions.