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WRESTLINGFAN

03-10-2007, 07:26 AM

Past or present. My fav is the A-10 Thubderbolt aka the Wart hog. It doesnt have the looks of a fighter jet like the F-15 its big ugly and slow but very powerful. They were used more during the 1st gulf war, they were often referred to as tank killers <img src="http://content.clearchannel.com/Photos/military/air/a-10_warthog_GI34.jpg" border="0" alt="a10" title="a10" width="210" height="210" />

This message was edited by WRESTLINGFAN on 3-10-07 @ 11:31 AM

mdr55

03-10-2007, 07:28 AM

Snoogans

03-10-2007, 07:29 AM

I was always an F-15 Eagle fan growin up:<img src="http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/f15/f15_12.jpg" border="0" width="550" height="558" />

hafast

03-10-2007, 12:56 PM

I've always been a big fan of the A-10, too, nothing like a flying tank.  However, the F-22 is rapidly becoming my favorite.  We had a few at our base last year, and they did a demo for the air show.  The friggin thing can do backflips!  I could not believe the things they were doing with it.  I like most of the fighters, like someone once told me, they're like 3D sports cars.

Crispy123

03-10-2007, 01:00 PM

I am a little biased bcause I flew on them for 10 years but the mighty battle herk is my fav <img src="http://members.aol.com/samc130/kc130.gif" border="0" /> Warthog is my 2nd fav, which the Marine Corps had some 

This message was edited by CPW3 on 3-10-07 @ 5:01 PM

Landblast

03-10-2007, 01:03 PM

AH-64D Apache Longbow<img src="http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r37/pbrstreetgang1/AH-64DApacheLongbow.jpg" border="0" width="384" height="480" />

El Mudo

03-10-2007, 01:25 PM

Spitfire <img src="http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/types/uk/supermarine/spitfireI-III/spitfire-X1.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="218" />    Corsair <img src="http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/corsair%20Boxer.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="345" />  The F4 Phantom (for saving so many asses in Vietnam) <img src="http://www.avion-de-combat.com/Combat_small/F4-Phantom.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="153" />    And, the C-47 <img src="http://www.airshows.org.uk/2005/airshows/dunsfold/photographs/c47_1.jpg" border="0" width="620" height="434" />

El Mudo

03-10-2007, 01:27 PM

Can we do Tanks too? I vote for the T-34 <img src="http://www.europa1939.com/tanques/tanques/t34-7.JPG" border="0" width="554" height="352" />

johnniehardrock

03-10-2007, 01:28 PM

AC 130 is BAD ASS<img src="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9gnMiKrMPNFoVYBbxijzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN 0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=12goh2prv/EXP=1173652011/**http%3A//www.milavia.net/aircraft/ac-130/gallery/ac-130_12.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="385" />

ralphbxny

03-10-2007, 01:29 PM

anyone protecting us!!

PapaBear

03-10-2007, 01:33 PM

WRESTLINGFAN wrote: Past or present. My fav is the A-10 Thubderbolt aka the Wart hog. It doesnt have the looks of a fighter jet like the F-15 its big ugly and slow but very powerful. They were used more during the 1st gulf war, they were often referred to as tank killers <img src="http://content.clearchannel.com/Photos/military/air/a-10_warthog_GI34.jpg" border="0" alt="a10" title="a10" width="210" height="210" />This message was edited by WRESTLINGFAN on 3-10-07 @ 11:31 AM Ditto. They are fun as hell to watch fly. They completely defy the laws of physics.

sr71blackbird

03-10-2007, 01:39 PM

furie

03-10-2007, 02:10 PM

the B-17

http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/images/b-17_n.jpg

TooLowBrow

03-10-2007, 02:20 PM

<img src="http://www.1stcavmedic.com/glossary-files/B-52-dropping_bombs.jpg" border="0" width="480" height="287" />

This message was edited by toolowbrow on 3-10-07 @ 6:21 PM

donny

03-10-2007, 02:22 PM

TheArchies

03-10-2007, 02:39 PM

I may be biased, as my Grandfather helped design these planes and get them into the Air Force, but my favorite planes are the f-111 aardvark, and the B-52. He told me a story about the testing of the BUF. They actually looped one. Problem is that the engines are gravity fed, and the wings looked like old people elbow on landing. <img src="http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/f-111_1.jpg" border="0" alt="f-111" title="f-111" width="455" height="328" align="middle" /><img src="http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/B-52-1.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="310" align="bottom" />

This message was edited by TheArchies on 3-10-07 @ 7:14 PM

A.J.

03-12-2007, 04:40 AM

Here I am!  Rock you like a hurricane!<img src="http://www.telcom.es/~jcastjr/aviones/harrier.jpg" border="0" width="496" height="456" />

Knowledged_one

03-12-2007, 05:01 AM

Well i worked as a flight test engineer on this one, and actually walked on top of them saw missiles loaded and a bunch of other cool tests, not to mentino being cockpit qualified this is the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet:<img src="http://www.navy.mil/navydata/aircraft/fa18/f18comp.gif" border="0" width="610" height="438" />I then moved onto the Firescout which is an unmanned helicopter and in the new vein of inmanned aircraft<img src="http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_on_9_5_2003_16_48_20/firescout2.max_thumbnail1.jpg8572EF89-C2E1-91EC-17BC9B72CDE6CCCB.jpgLarge.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="400" /> I am now working on the Vanebox for the JSF the next generation fighter and have done work on the first working flight test models as they are currently assembling them now<img src="http://www.forces.gc.ca/admmat/dgiip/grfx/jsf_image004_lrg_e.jpg" border="0" width="744" height="558" />

Golfman

03-12-2007, 05:07 AM

F/A 22 Raptor.  Bar none.  One bad ass piece of machinery.  My old time favorite is the SR-71 Blackbird.  Shear intimidation and power!

Knowledged_one

03-12-2007, 05:14 AM

Do you know how many piolots have died flying the Raptor?  That thing is dangerous

Mike Teacher

03-12-2007, 06:03 AM

furie wrote: the B-17 <img src="http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/images/b-17_n.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="200" /> Last month I got to fly one of the 14 remaining B-17s. <img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m110/MizzleT/B17_05a.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="334" />It was amazing that they had this huge 'hole' behind the radio compartment that was completely open; if I was insane enough, I could have crawled right out of the plane from here; my hand is holding me up as I try to snap away in a 120 mph wind; we were warned anything hot securely in our hands would be sucked right out.<img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m110/MizzleT/B17_08.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="600" />Sitting in the Bombadier's chair; you feel life you're not in the plane, your surrounded by plexiglas; sitting in a chair on a board that hold the Norden Bombsight. Imagine sitting here, youre flying the plane on the bomb run, and Me-109s are coming at you straight on firing away, as the flak explodes around you.Someone asked how many pilots died flying the Raptor; my guess is a tiny tiny fraction of pilots and crew who died flying these; they number in the thousands.

OneEyeJack

03-12-2007, 06:27 AM

the sopwith camel from ww1 and the one the red baron flew, the fokker and of course snoopy in his flying dog house

BACH16207

03-12-2007, 07:15 AM

sr71blackbird wrote: <img src="http://www.feenixx.com/usaf_bombers/3-view/SR71_Blackbird_3-view_poster.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" /> <div>I concur, plus it was way ahead of  its time as well</div>

Cleophus James

03-12-2007, 07:19 AM

PapaBear wrote: WRESTLINGFAN wrote: Past or present. My fav is the A-10 Thubderbolt aka the Wart hog. It doesnt have the looks of a fighter jet like the F-15 its big ugly and slow but very powerful. They were used more during the 1st gulf war, they were often referred to as tank killers <img src="http://content.clearchannel.com/Photos/military/air/a-10_warthog_GI34.jpg" border="0" alt="a10" title="a10" width="210" height="210" />This message was edited by WRESTLINGFAN on 3-10-07 @ 11:31 AM Ditto. They are fun as hell to watch fly. They completely defy the laws of physics. DITTTTTO.  these things would fly over my head whenever i was fishing down in toledo bend.  sky horses!

BACH16207

03-12-2007, 07:24 AM

I am surprised no one mentioned the God Father of all Military Aircraft: <img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c351/rzagzanza/AFO.jpg" border="0" width="511" height="303" />  

This message was edited by BACH16207 on 3-12-07 @ 11:25 AM

weekapaugjz

03-12-2007, 07:27 AM

ESDsucks@life wrote: PapaBear wrote: WRESTLINGFAN wrote: Past or present. My fav is the A-10 Thubderbolt aka the Wart hog. It doesnt have the looks of a fighter jet like the F-15 its big ugly and slow but very powerful. They were used more during the 1st gulf war, they were often referred to as tank killers <img src="http://content.clearchannel.com/Photos/military/air/a-10_warthog_GI34.jpg" border="0" alt="a10" title="a10" width="210" height="210" />This message was edited by WRESTLINGFAN on 3-10-07 @ 11:31 AM Ditto. They are fun as hell to watch fly. They completely defy the laws of physics. DITTTTTO. these things would fly over my head whenever i was fishing down in toledo bend. sky horses!  i agree with the A-10 as my favorite.  they did a fly over at a bills game i was at a few years back.  it was fucking awesome.my second favorite, from watching the history channel and stuff on vietnam so much, the F 86 Sabrehttp://www.constable.ca/f86_3.jpg

ChimneyFish

03-12-2007, 09:37 AM

<img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/flightpod_box.jpg" border="0" width="355" height="458" />But seriously  folks........<img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/mi-24.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" />

Cannon

03-12-2007, 09:50 AM

<img src="http://www.cloud9photography.us/mf/MF97_Grumman_F-14_Tomcat_VF-84_ProducerPeterJMancus.jpg" border="0" />*><div> </div><div> Can't believe there hasn't been a Tomcat posted yet. Sure "TOP GUN" may be played out, but the F-14 is still the baddest Mofo the air has ever seen.ÿ*> The Spectre is a close second for me, gotta love teh concept of strapping a battleship gun to a cargo plane.</div>

This message was edited by Cannon on 3-12-07 @ 1:51 PM

JPMNICK

03-12-2007, 10:10 AM

F/A 22 Raptor<img src="http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/f22/f22_schem_01.jpg" border="0" width="450" height="579" />

Mike Teacher

03-12-2007, 10:59 AM

I forget who had a pic up of Air Force One; I believe that's a civilian Jumbo Jet, but hey, maybe it has lasers and throws out Chaff and has anti-missile missile; I hope it has an escape pod like Donald Pleasence used in 'Escape from NY'I live for this stuff, and I see why others have, the peeps who have flown and/or maintained these aircraft; it's a weird double-edged sword for me; these are machines of death and destruction, yet for me they are the most gorgeous things, some of the most amazing creations, imo, humans have ever created. I mean, imagine flying the SR-71 so high you can see the curve of the earth, you are *in* space by almost every definition, and you're traveling at a speed that could get you from NY to LA in an hour; I bring up Wolfe's 'The Right Stuff' by he discussed this at length, how test pilots really did think they were the hot as the sun, the real Top Guns, as they flew supersonic miles above the ordinary boring lackluster non-important [in their view] lives of the civies on the ground. The climb up the Ziggurat begins.Just saw a docu on the X-15; flying that is beyond surreal, and how sad is it that the Speed and Altitude records for aircraft are 30+ years old and still standing, that we havent continued past the X-15, such that hypersonic flight should be ordinary today. I mean come on, they were hitting Mach 6 in what, the 60s? 70s? Too lazy too google.Why I live for this shit: I mention ad nauseum my dad flew for the USMC in the Korean War [almost all helis] and then he was a Capt. for NY Airways, shuttling IIPs [Incredibly Important People, this was a real designation above VIPs] between the different heliports, airports, flying around the skyscrapers. Then he turned 30.<img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m110/MizzleT/usmc2b.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="321" />USMC photo: Landing troops under fire in Korea, 1952. Pilot = Dad at age 22.Sorry if it all sounds like a brag it's not its more like its a friggin miracle I exist, and how little Ive done in my life compared to some others.

mdr55

03-12-2007, 03:32 PM

ChimneyFish wrote:  But seriously folks........<img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/mi-24.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" /> Sweet. I was looking for a pic too but most of them had bad angles or were on the ground. <img src="http://www.warmachines.50g.com/_framed/50g/warmachines/helicopters/mi-24/mi-24_3.jpg" border="0" width="798" height="629" />

tele7

03-12-2007, 04:12 PM

The P-40 Warhawk.  <img src="http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/fly-by-P-40.jpg" border="0" width="470" height="263" />

TheArchies

03-12-2007, 04:48 PM

P-40. Weren't those planes flown by those crazy pilots for Nationalist China back in 1939? Owned by the Chinese government, flown by boys from omaha. They wrecked havoc on zeroes and were a thorn in the side of the Japanese for years.Gotta love that plane. Good choice telestar.

hedges

03-12-2007, 05:56 PM

B-17. I built a model of one when I was a youngster.

hedges

03-12-2007, 05:57 PM

B-17. I built a model of one when I was a youngster.

CaptClown

03-12-2007, 06:18 PM

ppanda

03-13-2007, 06:38 PM

Lockheed SR-71A  What a beutiful machine...exceeds mach-3 and its technology is still somewhat classified.  If Darth Vader had a jet he would have an SR-71<img src="http://www.marchfield.org/sr71_oct2004.jpg" border="0" width="985" height="439" />

ppanda

03-13-2007, 06:47 PM

I always loved the P-38 lightning too- Cuz my gramps flew one and told me about all his war stories.  The doule fusilage made it very nasty looking.<img src="http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/98112.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="431" /><img src="http://home.worldonline.dk/winthrop/topp38.gif" border="0" width="300" height="206" />

This message was edited by ppanda on 3-13-07 @ 10:48 PM