Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 05 September 2016, 01:28:51 PM
Hercules Transport

Ryan Air for the RAF - never on time and delivers you to a destination somewhere remotely within 300 miles of civilisation

Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 05 September 2016, 01:28:51 PM
Short Sunderland Flying Boat

Oh yes, Sir! Excellent choice. 

This thing.

Cheers - Phil

Yes. Good plane (in fact, there are a lot of great planes mentioned above). Used to play F-117 Stealth Fighter on my old Commodore Amiga. Lots of tense missions and exciting incidents deep in 'enemy territory' plus learned a lot from the nifty Manual supplied with the game on doppler and pulse radars, guided weapon systems and even some dogfighting. The real plane has now been retired.  It has also been said that some RAF pilots flew them .... James Bond stuff, indeed.

Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 05 September 2016, 01:28:51 PM
Short Sunderland Flying Boat

Quote from: fsn on 05 September 2016, 05:29:58 PM
Oh yes, Sir! Excellent choice. 

Thirded

My son recently made up a large scale Sunderland model tied to its buoy as a presentation to a fellow volunteer guide at the Air Force Museum.
He had worked on them during the war and the presentation marked his 90^th birthday

He is pretty active for 90, he had let his pilot license lapse but decided he wanted to fly again so relearned and soloed on his birthday 

I like the Sunderland.  I painted up a H&R 1/300 model.

Nice Flying Porcupine, slugbalancer!

Hurricane...with Harrier very close second.

Nice sunderland!!

Russian Sturmovik 2
German FW 190
British - Mosquito

Two pages and NO ONE has mentioned the TSR.2?!



Like the Lightnings sexier cousin. Although I do like the Lightning. Must have been like riding a rocket!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

Go to Cosford if you want to one in the, errr, flesh. She's lovely up close.

No Lightening - so ugly it's beautiful, and with an exhaust flame longer that the airframe on a burner QRA.

IanS

Has to be the Vulcan. Watched one lazily fly over my back garden at not very much height a couple years ago. Friggin' awesome.

Also second Cosford to see some great cold war kit - also it's free entry, and they have a centurion 

Fieseler Storch at Cosford also, I seem to recall. Having seen it featured in the odd Commando comic, it was quite exciting to see it for real (I know .... I'm a geek  )

The Vulcan is awesome, too. Basically any early to mid Cold War UK aircraft are awesome

Except the Javelin - completely out of proportion, and effectively never finished. Ugly beast.

IanS

Out of proportion, yeah, barely ever actually finished, considerably incapable of its role and outclassed by only marginally newer aircraft, but ugly? I dunno, I rather like the Thunderbirds look!

The Vulcan is certainly my favourite aircraft to LISTEN to... The Vulcan Howl is unique as far as I've heard.

Wulf

 .... and so we get back to the Gripen!     How's this for a great sound?

Sounds like a jet powered kazoo