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Posted on 05/21/2005 8:22:31 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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 Thanks to PAR35 for today's suggestion. We'd also like suggestions for other persons, places, and things you would like to see discussed in this new Saturday forum, the Foxhole Saturday Symposium. sym·po·sium : a social gathering at which there is free interchange of ideas So now let's get on with the discussion. Pull up a chair or grab a spot on the floor around the virtual Foxhole Cabin and let's chat about "What is the Best Looking Airplane Ever"?      |
I don't know what we are talking about today bit I will give it a Bump from the ol salt mine.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
((HUGS))Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Foxhole.
Dang nabit, here I am at work and can't access my FTP server, AEROPLANE pictures no less, sheeesh
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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Best looking modern aircraft, the A-10 Thunderbolt II
My favorite fighter,the FW-190
The Mossie is a really good choice, especially in the Fighter Bomber configuration
Overall - Constellation
Passenger/Cargo - Constellation
Fighter - Spitfire
Bomber - B-47
LOL. We'll still be here when you get home. Lord willing and the creek don't rise. ;-)
As if there were any doubt!
No contest . . .
I like the "Cripes A'Mighty"!
((Hugs))
LOL. Great picture of the ducks miss feather.
Thank you PAR35, for the suggestion and the pics.
It's a beauty.
LOL. I could live in that!
You're welcome, but I didn't put up any pictures. Sam posted some to match my suggestions.
That's P.E.'s car from when he was a zoomie :-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
The B-17 is a nice looking plane, but the tail has always looked a little too large for aesthetic perfection. It looks like they were more interested in function than form when it was designed. I'd give it no higher than 3rd for bombers, behind the B-47 and the B-2.
Also got to sit in the cockpit of an A-26, which I had always thought of as nothing more than a modified B-25. There are similarities, but some big differences also, as the caretakers of that beautiful plane explained. The one they had on display today was actually attached to the 9th Air Force in the ETO during WW II.
Got a little sunburned, but it was well worth it!
Working on the premise that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I've always been partial to the JU 87B Stuka. But I can live with the Supermarine Spitfire or the P 51 Mustang
I am very attracted to the Rutan launch aircraft, White Knight. This is a machine that is all business, but not warfare.
From the front the straddling booms with landing gear, tail planes, etc. are are so narrow they disappear. The machine is, I understand, difficult to land because it has very little drag until it stalls.
The pictured flight is in 1913. Always liked this one.
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on May 21:
0427 BC Plato (Aristocles), Athens(?)
1471 Albrecht Dürer Nürnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
1527 Philip II King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
1633 Joseph de La Barre composer
1780 Elizabeth Fry Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
1796 Reverdy Johnson representative (Union), died in 1876
1822 Dabney Herndon Maury Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
1825 George Lafayette Beal Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 Newton Martin Curtis Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1860 Willam Einthoven Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)
1865 C J Thomsen Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1872 Henry Warren Boston MA, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss US, inventor (hydroplane)
1898 Armand Hammer New York NY, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
1903 Manly Wade Wellman Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
1904 Fats [Thomas Wright] Waller New York NY, jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
1904 Robert Montgomery Beacon NY, actor/director (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
1909 Guy de Rothschild French banker
1916 Harold Robbins New York NY, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)
1917 Dennis Day New York NY, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
1917 Raymond Burr New Westminster British Columbia Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
1921 Andrei Sakharov Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
1935 Terry Lightfoot clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
1941 Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
1942 Robert C Springer St Louis, Colonel USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
1943 Hilton Valentine rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1945 Ernst Willi Messerschmid Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
1947 Richard Hatch Santa Monica CA, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1948 Leo [Gerard] Sayer Shoreham-on-Sea England, singer (When I Need You)
1950 Roger Hodgson London, rocker (Supertramp-The Logical Song)
1951 Al Franken comedian/writer/actor/loser (Saturday Night Live, Stuart Saves His Family, Air America)
1952 Mr T [Lawrence Tero] Chicago IL, actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
1955 Stan Lynch Gainesville FL, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
1959 Nick Cassavetés actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool)
1970 Dorsey Levens NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 Roman Turek Strakonice Czechoslovakia, hockey goalie (Team Czechoslovakia Republic, Olympics-98)
1978 Kandy Marshall Miss Virginia Teen USA (1996)
1985 Frustaci Septuplets California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
In my (not so) Humble Opinion, What Is The Best Looking Airplane Ever?
Simple, the last REAL jet dog fighter the F-86 Saber!
Wow!
Nice plane. Hi Grzegorz.
Hindenburg
Doctor Hugo Eckener, the greatest name by far in airship history, thought the Nazis a hopelessly vulgar and bloody minded bunch and had to
split for Switzerland very early. Eckener figured the Nazi captain conning Hindenburg that day at Lakehurst caused the wreck.
Stupid, arrogant, ignorant, vulgar, uncultured, etc. etc., I mean, Eckener really did not approve.
Speaking of Zeppelins, the Maybach Zeppelin DS8:
Here's a twofer, a Spit and a Jag, ooow
Sorry my collection of B-47s is not very good, :-(
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Here is a rather colorfull Phantom for ya ;-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
:-) Good Choice
LOL! IS that Snippy up front?
Clinton's new home?
Yupper I think so!!! LOL
Good choices.
the P-51 is a classic design and the Phantom just looked "mean"
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