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Quoted: This. Next choice - T-38 / F-5. Then F-22 IMHO YMMV View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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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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Quoted: 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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Quoted: About $100k+ a pop. ETA: AIM-120's are around $1,000,000 each. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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Quoted: I sat in one a couple times. I would never call it pretty. Scary looking, like a flying house of doom! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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Quoted: I sat in one a couple times. I would never call it pretty. Scary looking, like a flying house of doom! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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View Quote I have always liked the lines of the Mig 29 and some of the Su fighters. They aren't ugly. |
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Somebody on the design team had to have been a Disney fan. Donald Duck - The Plastics Inventor |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/367483/F5CE5F79-600D-45B8-B0E9-2E6669FF06EE-2613422.jpg View Quote Favorite Russian paint job? |
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Quoted: 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 View Quote 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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Quoted: Horton 229 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/540579/7508D112-7FD0-402A-B695-4F3FB7EA1DEE_jpe-2613575.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/540579/0BC25319-B6AF-44F8-A82D-CFB2FF3E3118_jpe-2613576.JPG View Quote Over 70 years later, and it still looks futuristic. |
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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. View Quote |
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Quoted: Reread the title, but slower and pay attention. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54198/5379DC1A-942A-499D-88F2-8688893F939C-781653.jpg Cool... If your into one way trips View Quote Technically, that is a guided missile, not a jet fighter. |
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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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Quoted: Technically, that is a guided missile, not a jet fighter. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes 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. |
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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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Quoted: 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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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. View Quote 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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Quoted: 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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View Quote It was called “The Gutless” for a reason. The “Ford” was gorgeous… Attached File Attached File |
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