What do you think is the best looking jet ever made?

[Eric Mc]

I can sense a Donald Runsfeld moment coming over me.

[annodomini2]

F86 for me

[Alan Alan Alan]

SR-71 as mentioned.

Gloster Javelin.

[XJSJohn]

odyssey2200 said:

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I concur, There is no other answer but Concorde for this!!

My second place will go to the Canbera though,

[RizzoTheRat]

I always though the lopsided cockpit on the later PR9 let the looks down a bit though.

[Eric Mc]

It also featured on the B(I)8.

[skyslimit]

RizzoTheRat said:

I always though the lopsided cockpit on the later PR9 let the looks down a bit though.

Guy who examined me for my CPL skills test was an instructor on those.
He has some great stories of his time on them.

Me, jealous? Nah, not much

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

It also featured on the B(I)8.

Could have sworn that the prototype B-47 had double blown canopies and side-by-side seating (a bit like the PR-9 but mirrored), but then they changed to tanden seating and a central canopy?

Can't find any reference to it at all online though. Maybe I'm thinking of some other aircraft?

[Slagathore]

perdu said:

it was F22 on PC

for some reason it fails to load now

never mind hey

but I did enjoy the old fly about "missing everything" fun of it all

(can you tell I wasnt very good with it?)

That's the one.

You can download the Demo, can't remember the website, but it comes up in Google.

It's not as good as I remember it being

[Eric Mc]

Could be the Douglas XB-43 Mixmaster

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

Could be the Douglas XB-43 Mixmaster

Could well be.

[skyslimit]

Mixmaster?!!?

Massive bag of wrong more like.

What the hell was it, a test bed, or an operational aircraft?

[dr_gn]

dr_gn said:

Eric Mc said:

Could be the Douglas XB-43 Mixmaster

Could well be.

Yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XB-42_Mixmaster

Single canopy substituted after first flight.

Cheers!

[norby1]

For me, TSR 2, anything from the early 50's F9F Panther, F105, F102, F106.

Also like F15, B1B, C17 and the CH53E. Will put up some pics later.

[Nick_F]

Javelin - like a small boy's drawing of a 'jet'. Perfect.
Jaguar - proportions just so.
B1-B - see Javelin, only 30 years later.
MiG 31 - still looks like it means business when it's half-buried in Iraqi sand.

[Kays vRS]

Hunter gets my vote

[Eric Mc]

Regarding the B-42 "Mixmaster", there was a bunch of various jet bombers built just after the end of WW2 for the USAAF. They are sometimes referred to as the "Class of '47" and, by coincidence, the design that stood head and shoulders above the rest (and was ordered into production) was the Boeing B-47 Stratojet - and lovely they were too.




The other contenders were -

Douglas B-43 Jetmaster - a development of the B-42



The North American B-45 Tornado



The Convair B-46



Martin B-48



I think you can see why the B-47 was chosen.

[eharding]

Eric Mc said:

I think you can see why the B-47 was chosen.

Yup. Patently obvious. Even to me.

The B-47 was available in technicolor, and all of the others were only produced in monochrome.

[dr_gn]

Kays vRS said:

Hunter gets my vote

Ahhhgggh, my eyes, Jeeesus

[eharding]

dr_gn said:

Ahhhgggh, my eyes, Jeeesus

Actually, I rather like it.

At least you can see the blighter.

When we had the Yak repainted, the majority of the group wanted a historic russian camouflage paint scheme, whereas I was in favour of painting it bright red and putting a great big sod-off smoke system on it.

The majority prevailed. You have to say, whoever the russian bloke was who designed the original paint scheme, he deserved a medal, because the bloody thing is practically invisible. Not great when the judges at an aerobatic competition can't actually see you though.

On the plus side, it does make it registration exempt.