Name your 3 favourite planes

[PFC]

P-51 Mustang
Ju-87 Stuka
Me-262 Schwable

[Cpl Rootes]

The Big 3:
Avro Lancaster
Ilyushin Il-76
Hawker Hurricane

Mentioned in Despatches:
Me 262
Harrier Jump Jet
Sopwith Camel

[cash_13]

WW2

1) Mosquito

2) Lancaster

3) BF109G

Cold war era

1) Concorde

2) Vulcan

3) Lightning

Lancaster
Mosquito
Hurricane
Vulcan
Concorde
Harrier JumpJet
Eurofighter (saw it at 2 air shows. FUN!)
Nimrod.
Sopwith Camel
Tigermoth
Dragon Rapide (cos I've flown in one)

*Does a quick count*

yep, thats my 3.

[stevew]

Lanc
Concorde
Spitfire

[Gotthard Heinrici]

Originally Posted by PFC

P-51 Mustang
Ju-87 Stuka
Me-262 Schwable

The JU-87, now thats an interesting choice!!! Is there any still flying??

[Kyt]

Originally Posted by Gotthard Heinrici

The JU-87, now thats an interesting choice!!! Is there any still flying??

None flying but a few preserved:

http://www.geocities.com/hjunkers/ju_mus5.htm#m_ju87

Any contemporary pictures that may show a flying example are the 3/4th replicas

[adrian roberts]

My choices:

1] Spitfire - not very original I know, but for combination of beauty and function and legend, for an Englishman nothing comes close.

2] Boeing 747 - the aircraft which really shrunk the world into a global village: plus if like me you live in a major city where they descend towards the airport, if you look up in the early morning as the dawn sunlight reflects off one, its a beautiful and majestic sight.

3] Any modern high-performance sailplane such as the Schepp-Hirth Nimbus - without unnecessary encumbrances such as engines, the purest form of flying machine there will ever be.

I seem to have defined favourite by looks - if we were asked to choose five I would have added the Hunter, and LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin"

[Cpl Rootes]

Having had several PM's on why I chose the Ilyushin Il-76 for one of my 3 fave aircraft I have the following explaination:

The Ilyushin Il-76 is a incredable aircraft. It has a payload of about 3x more than the west's Hercules and when inside it the noise is much lower (as people who have flowen in a Herc will no doubt attest, the noise is dredful).

It can land in very bad weather and on very short and harsh runways. My Dad's company has landed them on a 3,000m ice runway in the middle of Antartica (which is no mean feat).

It is multi-roled and is a good all-rounder.

[spidge]

Originally Posted by adrian roberts

My choices:

1] Spitfire - not very original I know, but for combination of beauty and function and legend, for an Englishman nothing comes close.

2] Boeing 747 - the aircraft which really shrunk the world into a global village: plus if like me you live in a major city where they descend towards the airport, if you look up in the early morning as the dawn sunlight reflects off one, its a beautiful and majestic sight.

3] Any modern high-performance sailplane such as the Schepp-Hirth Nimbus - without unnecessary encumbrances such as engines, the purest form of flying machine there will ever be.

I seem to have defined favourite by looks - if we were asked to choose five I would have added the Hunter, and LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin"

I have been waiting to see if anyone would get near my combination before I posted and Adrian has been the closest.


Spitfire
Boeing 747
Short Sunderland - U-Boat Patrol, Air Sea Rescue, Long operational life, the Flying Porcupine was multi functional and a great asset.