Coolest aircraft ever built?
My faves are:
the Grumman F-14 Tomcat
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Boeing 747-400 series jetliners
Airbus A319(the nicest Airbus I've flown on so far)and A380(I'd love to be a passenger on the new superjumbo!)
North American P-51 Mustang(awesome warbird!)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning(the 'bombers' little friend' to the Allies,
the Japanese called it 'the fork-tailed devil'!)
Messerschmidt ME-262 (even though the enemy used it it's still pretty awesome WW2 technology and a preview of what was to come for most air forces!)
Boeing China Clippers( first true luxury liners of the sky with loads of amenities for passengers and they even had sleeper cabins!)
Harrier jump jet(STOVL/VTOL, very cool)
Lockheed Constellation
Boeing 707(first American-built passenger jet)
Douglas DC-3/C-47
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
C-17 Globemaster II(HUGE)
Antonov AN-225(REALLY HUGE!)
MY GOODNESS, what a plane nut you are, just one thing though, I think it was the Germans that called the P-38 that. Although the Japs may have, after all we shot down Yamamoto with it! I love all the planes you mentioned too. One you didn't mention is the F-16. I just love it's lines. Of course when one is considering "coolest" airplane. I think you have to think of the future JSF, whether it be the F-35 or whatever. Imagine a supersonic, stealth, vertical takeoff/landing, vectored thrust, armament enclosed inside the fuselage to be out of the slip steam fighter aircraft. Only thing better then this might be that fighter on StarGate which can escape the atmosphere. No doubt that's all ready on the computer drawing board. So cool to find a young woman so crazy about planes.
http://www.vectorsite.net/avf35.html
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