I guess while in flight.
The speed and performance do not really matter, just your favorite.
2007-08-03 09:37:10 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
the one that lands safely!
2007-08-03 09:39:48 · answer #1 · answered by mailbox1024 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Beechcraft stagger wing is a good choice, and the XB-70 got some well deserved votes, but the best looking airplane of all time has to be the Curtiss P-40 with a Flying Tigers paint job.
2007-08-06 09:51:58 · answer #2 · answered by mjmayer188 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
P-38, Supermarine Spitfire, Lockheed Constallation, T-28 Trojan
2007-08-04 09:21:43 · answer #3 · answered by pick013 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brewster Buffalo
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h97000/h97540.jpg
2007-08-03 13:52:05 · answer #4 · answered by Baron_von_Party 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Avro Lancaster.
It was deadly, could carry a heavy bomb load, went pretty fast for the time, maneuverable like a fighter, had decent range (but not enough to save the Poles during the Warsaw uprising), and was apparently a pleasure to serve in. The pilots regarded the Lancasters as women, knowing if they treated her well, she would do her best to get them home. They could make it all the way back from Germany on two engines and could make it back from France on one engine.
I like the versatility too. The Avro Lancasters were involved in bombing, sub hunting, transport (Operation Manna, where the RCAF saved the Dutch from starving to death during the winter of 1944-45), maritime patrol, arctic patrol, search and rescue, etc... If it was possible to do it, a Lancaster was used in that way. The only thing they didn't do, to my knowledge, was fly as fighters. The Avro Shackleton (the Lancaster's grandchild) did though.
If I had a time machine, I would go back to WWII and serve as a tail gunner in a Lancaster. It would scare the sh## out of me, but it would also be an experience of a life time.
2007-08-03 09:54:23 · answer #5 · answered by James S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a toss up between the SR-71 Blackbird and the 747-400.
2007-08-06 01:35:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lockheed Martin F/A 22 Raptor
2007-08-03 10:51:27 · answer #7 · answered by Gandalf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always loved the B-17 Flying Fortress. Any plane that could take the beating it took and still make it back to base is a beautiful thing.
2007-08-03 11:05:16 · answer #8 · answered by IFlyGuy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
XB-70 Simply a beautiful airplane
2007-08-03 18:14:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me... it is the PA-28-180
(Piper Cherokee) in Hangar xxx at the airport.
I can (wx permitting)
go fly it any time I desire, Moonlight pleasure flights are my favorite!! Nothing like it!
Of course if I had P-51 I would say it was the most beautiful plane....or a cub or a
Tiger, or a Pitts, or a .........
2007-08-03 12:00:43 · answer #10 · answered by cherokeeflyer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Northrop Gamma
2007-08-03 11:25:52 · answer #11 · answered by Mark 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋