What is your all time favourite airplane? Mine is the Blackburn Skua closely followed by Harrier GR7
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Gotta be the Avro Vulcan.......awesome.
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My all time favorite is the P 51 from WWII. My second is also a WWII plane the P 38. My third is the B2 bomber, the stealth.
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Hands down, the SR-71 Blackbird. An engineering marvel. Essentially designed in the 1950's, built in the 1960's and to this day still holds the world record for fastest aircraft with air-breating engines. http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/sr-71/ Second favorite would be the Japanese Kyushu J7W1 Shinden. This was an advanced canard design (tail first) with radically forward swept wings and a tail mounted 6 bladed prop. It was in development and flight testing phases at the very end of WWII. Here are a couple links: http://www.eagle.ca/~harry/aircraft/shinden/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJs1O2HSosE
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A bit about the Skua... It was the first carrier-based Aircraft to ever sink another ship (It was the German light cruiser Koenigsberg during the invasion of Norway) http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/Skua.htm I think we all know about the Harrier. And how it is a British invention, not American!
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