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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:32:17 PM EDT
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F-22 is the sexiest, like an Aston Martin Vanquish.
F-14 tickles my nostalgia boner, like a '70 Chevelle SS. F-16 is sleek and sporty, like a Porsche 911. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:37:33 PM EDT
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WARTHOG!
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:37:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I guess there is a degree of fascination of watching trainwrecks, airplane programs or strippers. Ha, I’ll take it. I am growing a little tired of all three anymore. I wish my timeline with the airplane programs was more aligned with yours, maybe even a generation earlier. It’s a depressing world now. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:38:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WARTHOG! Not a fighter. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:42:32 PM EDT
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Me-262. Next question. Shark shaped fuselage, swept back wings, very symmetrical design.
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:43:18 PM EDT
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F104 Starfighter
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:43:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Voodoo had some sexy lines to it. The century jet era was a really cool time for fighter designs! https://heavywhalley.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/f-101-voodoo.jpg |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:44:05 PM EDT
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 Harrier jet shooting up building scene, True Lies (1994) |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:44:36 PM EDT
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Pains me to say this but single seat SU-27 variants are the best looking in my eyes.
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:45:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F104 Starfighter |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:46:31 PM EDT
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F-16 or F-18. I also love the A-10. I was at an airshow when I was a kid and there was a green A10 on display. I told my Dad it looked like a flying tank. He told me it ate tanks for breakfast and I fell in love
 There's a pic of me standing in front of it somewhere at my parents house, but it looked kinda like this: 
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:47:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'm probably a bit biased, but I'm an F-15 guy. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/44525/33fw-f15-eglin_jpg-2612920.JPG I'm biased too. This one was the first one I was assigned to as an ADCC fresh out of tech school in 1995 and then as the DCC in 1998. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54089/272886130_5105270872865754_9042112225163-2612957.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54089/16803_jpg-2612958.JPG I started my F-15 work in the fall of 1975 in the automatics shop at Langley AFB, then as a strength engineer in the production group at McAir where I also supported flight test and the wing for the F-15E (all y'all pilots are flying wings with a main spar I sized) then later in the Advanced F-15 project, and finally a short stint several years later on a first look at extensive redesign to get manufacturing cost out of the aft fuselage. Any F-15 replacement with a LO shape will do very well to copy the fuselage load paths to make a successful airplane. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 12:50:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ha, I'll take it. I am growing a little tired of all three anymore. I wish my timeline with the airplane programs was more aligned with yours, maybe even a generation earlier. It's a depressing world now. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I guess there is a degree of fascination of watching trainwrecks, airplane programs or strippers. Ha, I'll take it. I am growing a little tired of all three anymore. I wish my timeline with the airplane programs was more aligned with yours, maybe even a generation earlier. It's a depressing world now. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:01:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:02:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Here she is … Miss Americaaaaaaa …… http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7Ch4i6oHHFE/UTS4SPr5KJI/AAAAAAAABC4/9R6JM2b3bsA/s1600/x-32.jpg And here's Midcap's choice!  Me I gotta go with the F-22 followed by the F-86. Pure sex. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:05:22 PM EDT
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F16 Viper and its not close.
The F4 does get special credit for looking like it actively wants to hurt something though. I read Skunkworks years ago and the idea that beautiful planes tend to fly well is actually pretty well established. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:07:42 PM EDT
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F14
F16 close second Honorable Mentions to Mig28, F15, and F4 |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:13:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:18:35 PM EDT
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Too many options..
In the modern aircraft I have been torn between the F-16 and the F35.    Vintage.. Again.. So many. But I have always loved the F86 and the variants of it.  
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:20:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I am a bit biased. A Wall of Eagles going to the Merge. Sucks to be you motherfucker https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/98989/f-15-firing-missiles_jpg-2613234.JPG |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:26:40 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryFPNI, without a doubt. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:27:03 PM EDT
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1. F22
2. F/A 18 Super Hornet 3. F14 |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:28:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryFPNI in spades. 
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:31:29 PM EDT
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Quote History |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:31:47 PM EDT
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The look of the Swedish Saab jets is pretty unique and are some of the best looking.
But for me the F-4 and F-14 are the best. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:36:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:37:29 PM EDT
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FPNI
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:46:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Over the years I've learned to revel in pointing out to my trainees the pull start on the front of the engine. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Without regard for modern developments or other details, what comes to mind as simple "the jet fighter" will always be the 262. Over the years I've learned to revel in pointing out to my trainees the pull start on the front of the engine. Feature of the engine, rather than the airframe, as the Arado 234A and 234B used the same engines and also had the pull starter. The pull starter started a two-cycle piston engine, which had a clutch to connect it to the jet engine. Two sets of controls in the cockpit - one for the piston starter engines, and one for the jet engines. The B-57 also had an odd, by modern standards, starting system, but it was apparently based on a similar system that had been used in some radial engine Navy planes.  Canberra Start up As for the thread topic, if I had to pick one jet fighter from the 1940s to now, it would probably be the F-15. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:51:14 PM EDT
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I’m a weirdo.... I like the early straight wing jets.
P-80 Shooting Star F9F Panther F2H Banshee Eta- I guess those wingtip tanks do it for me. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 1:51:25 PM EDT
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F-16B, specifically the B, in a clean configuration
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:09:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F-22, followed by the SU-57 https://wallpapercave.com/wp/rVIUgmv.jpg https://www.gladiusds.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sukhoi_T-50_Maksimov.jpg  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:14:21 PM EDT
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F106 Delta Dart.
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:14:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And here's Midcap's choice! Me I gotta go with the F-22 followed by the F-86. Pure sex. Hey, now - he likes them thicc, not retarded! Edit- my personal vote goes to the later model F-16 |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:16:48 PM EDT
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Tomcat and Raptor
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:17:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F16 Viper /thread This |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:18:45 PM EDT
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Modern: F-16
Retro: F-104 |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:20:07 PM EDT
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F-86, Me-262, Su-47
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:30:13 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:43:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F16>F14>F4>F15>F18 |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:54:06 PM EDT
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The F-16 looks really sharp to me.
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:54:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 2:57:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:01:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That photo cost the taxpayers more than I will make in my lifetime. Quote HistoryQuoted: That photo cost the taxpayers more than I will make in my lifetime. About $100k+ a pop. ETA: AIM-120's are around $1,000,000 each. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:01:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not being snarky - why isn't there an F17? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: F16>F14>F4>F15>F18 There is an F-17, but after the prototypes were built and evaluated by the Air Force, they decided to buy the F-16 instead. The F-17 was then redesigned to make the F-18. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:02:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not being snarky - why isn't there an F17? The F-18 was originally the F-17 when it was competing against the F-16 in the USAF lightweight fighter program. Navy adopted it and changed the name |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:08:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The F-18 was originally the F-17 when it was competing against the F-16 in the USAF lightweight fighter program. Navy adopted it and changed the name Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Not being snarky - why isn't there an F17? The F-18 was originally the F-17 when it was competing against the F-16 in the USAF lightweight fighter program. Navy adopted it and changed the name A little more involved than changing the name, as carrier capability required beefing up various things, and the Navy had different requirements than the Air Force. There was also the change in the manufacturer. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:11:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F-16 Like a Ferrari, it looks fast when sitting still. This. Next choice - T-38 / F-5. Then F-22 IMHO YMMV |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:12:11 PM EDT
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Rafale
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:12:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not being snarky - why isn't there an F17? I'm probably going to be late, but there was. The Northrop F-17. Competed against the F-16. Ultimately developed into the F/A-18. What will really bake your noodle is why is it the F-35? And not say the F-25? |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:13:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like the F4. F4 is the mom bod of fighter jets |
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