Most beautiful aircraft. Nominate one. Or more.

[SSgt Baloo]

I've been an aviation fan since I was five. Since then I've always had an ever-changing list of planes in mind that I thought were beautiful, at least to my sensibilities.

A few that come to mind (in no particular order) are the De Havilland Comet, the Beech Staggerwing, the SR-71/A-12/YF-12, and the XP-67 Bat.

What are some of your faves?

[Gary]

Profound yeah baby on the XP-67.
Added to that list I would need to include the Diana, Airacobra and the Me-262. There is an elegance to the first two and a purposeful shark like look to the 262. The Hustler is kind of sexy too.

[pyro-manic]

Pretty much anything made by Hawker (in particular the Hunter, Fury, Demon, Sea Fury, Sea Hawk), the Lockheed Constellation, F-14 Tomcat, Sukhoi Su-27/30/etc Flanker, bubble-top Griffon Spitfires, DH Mosquito and Hornet, XB-70 Valkyrie, EE Lightning and Canberra, Avro Vulcan, Avia B.534, and of course, Concorde.

[GTX]

Said it before and I'll say it again: Bugatti Model 100





Regards,

Greg

[Daryl J.]

The Bugatti 100 mentioned above which has been my fave for a decade or better.
Macchi and Gloster seaplane racers from the Schneider Cup (listed as one)
Concorde
D.H. Mosquito
Spitifire

Note, not one Yank machine from this Yank........



Daryl J.

[PanzerWulff]

my choices would be the F-104 in natural metal,Spitfire,Zero,SR-71 & the Grumman F9F-8 Cougar
"Panzer"

[upnorth]

Tough call.

I don't have an absolute favorite, but higher spots on my list are occupied by:

Avro Arrow

DeHavilland just about anything (They made very few things that weren't beautiful)

MiG-21 F-13 (The early Fishbeds had a certain elegance that later ones lacked)

Northrop F-5 family (simply the most aesthetically pleasing combat aircraft to come off a post war American drawing board IMHO)

Bell P-39 Airacobra/P-63 kingcobra

Saab Gripen (Easily the most attractive of the new generation fighters )


As for civilian stuff

Piaggio P.180 Avanti

Beech 17 Staggerwing

Mitsubishi MU-2 Marquise

[ChernayaAkula]

Mirage 2000 , followed by the Spitfire and the Hawker Hunter. 

[B777LR]

Thats tough. Ive been a fan of aviation since i was about 4, and so far my favorites are the:

Boeing 747SP
Boeing 737-500 (no winglets)
Airbus A380-800
Airbus A319
Boeing 737-700 (with winglets)
Il-96-300
Baade 152

[Shasper]

Later mark Scooters, F-20 & F-14 . . . . and the B-1A

Shas

[Spey_Phantom]

my favorites have to be:

-hawker Hunter
-SU-47 Berkut
-F-15S/MTD Active
-Eurofighter Typhoon
-Rafale-M
-Spitfire
-Seaking
-C-17

[Radish]

Spitfire V or IXc....it has to be the high-backed version and preferably the Vb.

Others?

Constellation
DC-3
F-104A/C

[kitnut617]

De Havilland Hornet for me, followed by Late Model Spitfires/Spiteful and Tempest/Fury/Sea Fury and the Martin Baker MB5.  Strangely can't think of any jet that really does it for me though.

[wagnersm]

P-38 Lightning

Steve

[sotoolslinger]

Draken, Flanker, Viggen , Gripen