J4CKO

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Anyone would think that only one plane has ever been built, I dont want to take away from the acheivement but I would like to know what planes other people have a soft spot for ?

My personal favourites are,

Airliners

Lockheed TriStar (first plane I ever went on)
Boeing 747SP (The baby Jumbo)

Millitary

Vulcan
Tornado

LeeMac

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got back from hols in December at Manchester and on landing the plane turned round where Concord was and got a good look at it, dosent look very big but looks top, shame it couldn't continue.
Not a good flyer myself.

Dont have any faves but am amazed how they get up there.




[Edited by LeeMac - 1/14/2004 9:23:02 PM]

Brun

SR71 Blackbird

XT

Airliners

Boeing 777
Airbus A340


Military

F-4 Phantom (what a sound OMG)
F-14 Tomcat (love the shape)
F-104 (not for boys)

ALi-B

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Concordski.....

Just for the blatant cheek of the thing!

[Edited by ALi-B - 1/14/2004 9:23:19 PM]

mart360

commercial

concorde no contest


military

in addition to

vulcan

a10 tankbuster

sr71 blackbird

starfighter

seen all of em flying... !!


mart

Freak

F18 hornet
And F14 tomcat
Topgun

[Edited by Freak - 1/14/2004 9:27:06 PM]

jamin

Commercial - 747, despite sitting in cattle class all the way to Oz in one

Millitary - F-16, Used to love the Iron Eagle Films when I was a nipper and still think they look mean as you like

J4CKO

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Its funny, was never really bothered about planes, passing interest, little more but over the last couple of years I have been looking on the web and borrowing books from the library, who knows in a couple of years I will be at Manny Airport with my airband radio, thermos and egg butties with the other spotters, at least plane spotters see themselves are more racy and dynamic than train spotters.

Not really !

FlightMan

Commercial
Concorde
747-400

Military
SR-71
F4
Russian Backfire. OMFG Wot a noise. This thing make Concorde seem quiet!

mj

I hate airliners, there are too many other elements in charge of your destiny for my liking.

I also dislike foreign cheapo med holidays, and airliners are
usually involved, hence the problem, though if I had to choose a
favourite, it would be one one I was sat in about 2 minutes after
landing.

Call that a soft spot if you will



Military planes - somewhat more interesting:

oldies:





Bad *** award:





creative:





the daddy :






The business, and my personal favourite :






mj, ( not a plane spotter, honest )



[Edited by mj - 1/14/2004 10:18:14 PM]

XT

mj, we don't take kindly of plane spotters where my mum comes from

XT

also one of my favourites





What a bomber should look like





Lovely shape





MY favourite colour scheme ever

mj

tell her to get a house further from the airport then

mj

XT, paah....

..apart from the russian entry, you have a penchant for pants planes.


.....whats "thrust vector" then?

carl

Personally I'd go for:

A4 Skyhawk
F5 errr... Tiger I think
Hawker Hunter
F104 -- The Widowmaker
Saab Viggen or I might be thinking of Gripen
Never liked any of the French ones with canards -- now the bloody Typhoon's got them!
MiG 15
MiG 25 Foxbat
Vulcan (who made these -- Avro?)
De Havilland Vampire
...and ooh, the thrust-vectored F16 test aircraft has to be worth a mention

[Edited by carl - 1/14/2004 10:48:02 PM]

mj

my old man did,- years ago, when he worked at Avro's

XT

carl, is this the vulcan? It's an avro, but i don't remember which one.

mj

B1

XT

i thought rockwell made the B1, plus i posted the pic in the other post.

mj

how piddly are those engines?

XT

Lol, a bird in one of the B1's engines was enough to take it down.

mj

Owned!

You are officially a geek.

I knew that, ask me another.

XT

LOL

XT

Among my collection of airplane related pics stolen from internet sites, i found this




[Edited by XT - 1/14/2004 11:21:42 PM]

mj

ok,[slaps XT firmly roung face with some flying gauntlets]

what percentage of it's full fuel load did the SR-71 loose prior to take off?

to the nearest ml please..

XT

the full fuel load was 80,000lbs

take off load was 45,000lbs

Gus M

Great photographs MJ and XT. That Corsair is amazing.

carl

Yes, XT, that is a picture of the Avro Vulcan. And a fantastic noise it used to make, too.

They also used it as a test bed for the Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus engines used on the Concorde.

Daz34

What have Port Stanley & Mrs Spock got in common?