What's your favourite military aircraft?

[DanJ]

My favourite of the V Bombers was the Victor, classic 1950's design, looks like it came straight off the pages of the Eagle comic.

[fsn]

Vulcan, every time.

[oldblindjohn]

A1E Skyraider. It had a two hour loiter time on target. Your best friend in viet nam.

[skywalker]

I have a few.
WW2:
Spitfire
Mosquito
Ju 52
Post War:
VULCAN
Harrier
F4 Phantom
C5 Galaxy................mainly because size does matter

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Comment at Fairford many years ago - "In the event of foul weather the Moroccan air force will perform inside the C5"  - they were flying small prop aerobatic machines.

IanS

[mlr314159]

A10 - warthog

[urbancohort]

F4 Phantom in SE Asia livery of USN, white/grey, and Bristol Fighter as a neighbour when I was a kid had been an Ace in WW1

[nikharwood]

A10 - warthog

Yep - agreed:

Big fan of the Osprey too:

[Roy]

Anything with Muttley on board!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Anything with Muttley on board!

It'll NEVER fly.....

[d_Guy]

It is also very hard not to like the many aircraft of Hayao Miyazaki

[fsn]

The Goblin, a parasite fighter designed to be carried in a B36 bomber.

[FierceKitty]

Explanation?

[fsn]

The B36 was a long range bomber. The Goblin was designed to fit in the B36 and offer fighter support. It was swung out and in on a descending arm.

The project was killed off basically by in-flight refuelling of conventional aircraft, but they did manage to launch and retrieve aircraft from a B36.


Those were the days when science meant science.

[FierceKitty]

No WW I fans? When it was Biggles and Algy and Snoopy, not all this quadratic equations and afterburners?