What is your favourite combat aircraft?

**AntRobertson** · 19-09-2009, 10:05 AM

^Yep, still got the singe marks on my hair from the blast of that Harrier taking off.

(Actually no, just Googled mine

)

**patsycat** · 19-09-2009, 10:15 AM

I kinda guessed that!! Sorry in a rather pissed state.

**PlanK** · 19-09-2009, 10:19 AM

^
That's the best state to be in.
Unless you're a Yank. In which being pissed is not good.

**robuzo** · 19-09-2009, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Plan B

^
That's the best state to be in.
Unless you're a Yank. In which being pissed is not good.

Not to mention being pissed while pissed, which is a state of mind to avoid. I often hear Brits using "pissed off" to mean "angry," and it leaves me feeling somehow disappointed, like they might feel hearing a Yank say "bloody."

Back to da planes. Best dogfight ever: Werner Voss in a Fokker Dr. I

vs. eight Brits in SE5s

Nicely depicted in CG in the History Channel "Dogfights" show. Has everything- courage, honor, talent, tragedy. 20 years-old, immensely skillful, died young, stayed pretty. What a display of heroics, and what a waste.

**Looper** · 19-09-2009, 04:51 PM

Mk V

Mk IX

Mk XVIII

Mk XIX with clipped wings and counter rotating props.

**tsicar** · 19-09-2009, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

^Yep, still got the singe marks on my hair from the blast of that Harrier taking off.

..............and the skid-mark in his underpants!

**patsycat** · 19-09-2009, 06:04 PM

Why aren't the pilots waving at the camera?

**patsycat** · 19-09-2009, 06:05 PM

Sorry, off out to buy another bottle of inane drivel wine...

**Looper** · 19-09-2009, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by patsycat

Why aren't the pilots waving at the camera?

The pilot of this Royal Thai Air Force Albatross is not waving at the camera because he is still in bed since he was at the karaoke lastnight

Or maybe he is just bending down to change the Thai music CD? Either way, good luck to the navigator in the back seat.

**DrivingForce** · 19-09-2009, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by Muadib

Experimental Ruskie SU-47 that never quite made the grade... X-Wing fighters are the shizzle...

yeah.....I'm kinda partial to this one myself..

**Looper** · 19-09-2009, 09:44 PM

America's first fighter jet, the F-80 - victor of the first ever all-jet dogfight (with a MIG-15).

The swept wing MIG was a better plane though and the US quickly designed the similar but sturdier Sabre (background) to more consistently outdo the MIG (foreground).

**DrivingForce** · 19-09-2009, 09:52 PM

^Well even having a Ferrari doesn't quite cut it as it still comes down to the drivers skills as a driver like Luca Badoer will attest too...

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 20-09-2009, 11:24 PM

I think they are a waste of money.

**DrivingForce** · 21-09-2009, 12:06 AM

^What?? Ferrari's??........I agree...

**Looper** · 22-09-2010, 08:02 PM

One of these beauts was plying lazily back and forth across a clear blue sky today as if it was part of an airshow.

3 times it thundered directly overhead not more than 300m above the beach.

yes they were used by the military

Truly a thing of majestic beauty and the kind of elusive charm that cannot be matched by anything from a contemporary design shop.

**Marmite the Dog** · 22-09-2010, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by Looper

Truly a thing of majestic beauty and the kind of elusive charm that cannot be matched by anything from a contemporary design shop.

Are you blind? It's bloody ugly.

**Moonraker** · 22-09-2010, 08:19 PM

^

It has a lovely personality.

**Looper** · 22-09-2010, 08:21 PM

Well I thought it was beautiful. I actually stood up and waved like a 9 year old as it swept past

...then unconvincingly tried to make it look like I was just scratching my head when I realised some folk were looking at me...

**Norton** · 22-09-2010, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

It's bloody ugly.

Commonly know as a BUFF in military. Big Ugly Flying (or Fat) Fucker.

**Norton** · 22-09-2010, 08:38 PM

Still BUFF at 50 years old. Ugly to some but to others, awe inspiring.

**Looper** · 22-09-2010, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

Still BUFF at 50 years old

Maiden flight was nearly 60 years ago. Amazing that there are so many still in active service.

Another BUFF...

Flying Fortress

If you want ugly we have ugly

Handley Page Victor

**Happyman** · 22-09-2010, 09:19 PM

My all time favourite is the DH Mosquito !

But there is a personal downside.
As a DH apprentice in the 50's we had to clear one of the flight sheds which had 6 mothballed Mozzies in it .

We stripped out the engines and other mechanical bits and BURNT the fuckers down the back of the airfield

As we did it over a weekend we got time and a half for the saturday and double time for the sunday !!!!!

**socal** · 22-09-2010, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by Muadib

The F-22 Raptor is one sexy biotch... Thrust vectoring is the shizzle... Unlikely it will reach full production due to budget cutbacks and the advent of UAV's...

I like the Russian SU 35 with the thrust vectoring. I like the low stance. It looks better then a Raptor.

The Euro typhoon also looks bad ass, especially when its all loaded up.

**DrAndy** · 22-09-2010, 11:33 PM

Originally Posted by Happyman

My all time favourite is the DH Mosquito !

But there is a personal downside.
As a DH apprentice in the 50's we had to clear one of the flight sheds which had 6 mothballed Mozzies in it .

We stripped out the engines and other mechanical bits and BURNT the fuckers down the back of the airfield

As we did it over a weekend we got time and a half for the saturday and double time for the sunday !!!!!

you bastard, you heathen, you philistine, you.....

**Thormaturge** · 23-09-2010, 09:28 AM

Curse that Red Baron!!

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