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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:15:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This. Next choice - T-38 / F-5. Then F-22 IMHO YMMV Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: F-16 Like a Ferrari, it looks fast when sitting still. This. Next choice - T-38 / F-5. Then F-22 IMHO YMMV The F-5/T-38/F20 are cool aircraft. I was visiting family near Yuma AZ recently and had a blast watching all the .mil aircraft scooting around. I loved seeing the F-5's zipping around. I spent more time sitting outside than in the house just to watch the aircraft. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:16:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F4 is the mom bod of fighter jets Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I like the F4. F4 is the mom bod of fighter jets F-4 is what happens when aircraft engineers are left without a more sensible outlet for urges to do things like see what happens when you somehow cram a V-10 into a Miata. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:17:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like the F4. Second post nailed. Science has been settled. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:19:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F-4 is what happens when aircraft engineers are left without a more sensible outlet for urges to do things like see what happens when you somehow cram a V-10 into a Miata. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I like the F4. F4 is the mom bod of fighter jets F-4 is what happens when aircraft engineers are left without a more sensible outlet for urges to do things like see what happens when you somehow cram a V-10 into a Miata. True statement. The F4 is what happens when the “no replacement for displacement” gearheads graduate from aeronautics engineering school. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:19:12 PM EDT
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A-4
F-15 F-14 Mig-29 Harrier AV8B |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:20:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:20:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F4 is the mom bod of fighter jets Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I like the F4. F4 is the mom bod of fighter jets I sat in one a couple times. I would never call it pretty. Scary looking, like a flying house of doom! |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:22:20 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:31:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: About $100k+ a pop. ETA: AIM-120's are around $1,000,000 each. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 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. I thought the same initially. If one included the build cost of the airframes, and all costs associated with training the pilots, one ends up adding a few zeros to that total. Maybe that is what he meant? |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:33:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Quote HistoryQuoted: I really like the F-4 but the best is the F-14 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/F-14A_VF-84_at_NAS_Fallon_1988.JPEG/1200px-F-14A_VF-84_at_NAS_Fallon_1988.JPEG This right here |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:33:42 PM EDT
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Imaging your day starting by walking up to this knowing you’ll be in the air shortly.
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:34:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I sat in one a couple times. I would never call it pretty. Scary looking, like a flying house of doom! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I like the F4. F4 is the mom bod of fighter jets I sat in one a couple times. I would never call it pretty. Scary looking, like a flying house of doom! The F-4 is proof that with enough thrust you can make a shithouse fly. I knew a retired AF guy that flew F-4s among a ton of other AF aircraft, he was a real hoot to bs with. He jokingly said to me one day while we were eating lunch... "Do you know the real reason there is shoulder belts in the F-4?" I looked at him a bit dumb founded and said, "well... Safety" He laughed and said.. "well, ok.. But seriously.. When you cut the throttle in that thing the drag slows it down fast enough to make you kiss the instrument panel like a bug on a windshield". He loved the ugly old F-4. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:36:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I sat in one a couple times. I would never call it pretty. Scary looking, like a flying house of doom! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I like the F4. F4 is the mom bod of fighter jets I sat in one a couple times. I would never call it pretty. Scary looking, like a flying house of doom! It's like the muscle car of fighters. Great lines, big, heavy, and fast in a straight line. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:36:22 PM EDT
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This is the answer. You can lock this thread now.
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:37:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryPlease, please can I get a test ride with this.  Attached FileBig hair is best hair, jus' sayin' |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:38:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:43:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI have always liked the lines of the Mig 29 and some of the Su fighters. They aren't ugly. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:51:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like the F4. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:54:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What will really bake your noodle is why is it the F-35? And not say the F-25? All the numbers in between are "UFO's". TicTac is the F-87. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 3:59:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is the answer. You can lock this thread now. Somebody on the design team had to have been a Disney fan.  Donald Duck - The Plastics Inventor |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 4:21:09 PM EDT
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Su27
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Posted: 11/25/2022 4:46:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 4:53:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryFavorite Russian paint job? |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 5:17:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is the answer. You can lock this thread now. https://www.thedrive.com/content/2022/02/Boeing-X-32B-1.jpg?quality=85&auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1440 If it wasn’t for the big gaping hole in the front, you’d think it was amphibious. The Boeing design team gave a short presentation/Q&A session to my class in the late 90’s and some of the Q’s were pretty brutal. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 5:18:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 5:23:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 5:32:27 PM EDT
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F-22
SU-30 F-15 |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 5:48:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 5:55:48 PM EDT
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Always loved the F9 Panther! |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 6:18:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2022 6:27:17 PM EDT
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Dassault Rafale
   
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Posted: 11/25/2022 9:12:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOver 70 years later, and it still looks futuristic. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 9:19:31 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 |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 9:40:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://i.imgur.com/NU5m75O.jpg Very very frightening! No love for the classics? I'm also partial to the 109, 190, and Spitfire. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 9:58:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Reread the title, but slower and pay attention.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: https://i.imgur.com/NU5m75O.jpg Very very frightening! No love for the classics? I’m also partial to the 109, 190, and Spitfire. Reread the title, but slower and pay attention. No matter where you go, there is always one. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:03:55 PM EDT
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 Cool... If your into one way trips |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:05:43 PM EDT
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F-15C
But I am biased, grew up at Tyndall. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:12:20 PM EDT
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Old school F-4
 
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:34:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54198/5379DC1A-942A-499D-88F2-8688893F939C-781653.jpg Cool... If your into one way trips Technically, that is a guided missile, not a jet fighter. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:45:54 PM EDT
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This is hard, because each era of fighters has its own practical aesthetic.
I like f14, yf23, and for. Basically all stealth fighters look sexy except the Boeing guppy and Russian and Chinese knock off attempts. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:49:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Technically, that is a guided missile, not a jet fighter. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54198/5379DC1A-942A-499D-88F2-8688893F939C-781653.jpg Cool... If your into one way trips Technically, that is a guided missile, not a jet fighter. The Ohka is a rocket. Not a jet. 
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:50:52 PM EDT
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 I know you said jet fighter but can it get any sexier than this? 
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:56:43 PM EDT
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Always liked the Century Series.
F-104 Honorable mention - F-102 & F-106. IMHO, YMMV, yada yada yada... |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 10:58:35 PM EDT
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F-16 has always been my favorite.
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Posted: 11/25/2022 11:00:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Ohka is a rocket. Not a jet. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54198/5379DC1A-942A-499D-88F2-8688893F939C-781653.jpg Cool... If your into one way trips Technically, that is a guided missile, not a jet fighter. The Ohka is a rocket. Not a jet. Yes, not a jet, and not a fighter. It had no guns, no bombs to drop, no detachable weapons of any kind, and no landing gear. It was an air-launched guided missile, using a kamikaze human as the guidance system. There were plans to build rail launched versions (similar to how the Germans launched the V-1s) with greater range, but the war ended before they were developed. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 11:02:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://hars.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Hawker-Hunter.jpg Lots of sexy aircraft in this thread. For me, aesthetics only...it has to be The Hawker Hunter. How the Brit’s could design a gorgeous aircraft like the Hunter then, turn around and produce a godawful design like the English Electric Lightning is beyond me. The lightning is butt ugly from every angle in every configuration. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 11:08:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How the Brit’s could design a gorgeous aircraft like the Hunter then, turn around and produce a godawful design like the English Electric Lightning is beyond me. The lightning is butt ugly from every angle in every configuration. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: https://hars.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Hawker-Hunter.jpg Lots of sexy aircraft in this thread. For me, aesthetics only...it has to be The Hawker Hunter. How the Brit’s could design a gorgeous aircraft like the Hunter then, turn around and produce a godawful design like the English Electric Lightning is beyond me. The lightning is butt ugly from every angle in every configuration. You can find examples where US companies (individual companies, not the US industry as a whole) could crank out a great design and crank out something horrid, with not much time between them. Part of it is design requirements (what the military was asking for, at the time). Part of it is developing technologies. |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 11:08:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F22 This one!!! |
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Posted: 11/25/2022 11:09:26 PM EDT
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F-14 Tomcat
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Posted: 11/25/2022 11:20:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryIt was called “The Gutless” for a reason. The “Ford” was gorgeous…  Attached File Attached File |
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