A long overdue awesome aeroplanes thread!

Starting with a Beechcraft Staggerwing.

Sunshine Clipper

The De Havilland Mosquito

The most awesome…

Ekranoplan:

Is that a Caspian Sea monster?remember learning about them during my electronic warfare training in the navy.

Saunders-Roe Princess

Yes, there were a bunch of different types built.

Nice choice Stewart, though I prefer it with this paint scheme!

Theres something about the Sea Fury Chris (but the tone tone color scheme is better ;), very beautiful plane.
For function above looks I’d go for the Transavia PL-12, its still pretty awesome.

or

Love the Staggerwing, beautiful little aeroplane!
Sea Furies are ace, just about the most perfect development of the single engined piston engine fighter. Not for nothing are they used for desert pylon racing.

For me its simple

EDIT dirk beat me to it.

Although, if you want awesome that’s truly scary in its approach to uncompromising, I present the Gee Bee R1

Just like a bumble bee, there’s no logical reason for the damned thing to actually fly, other than sheer brute force!
Which leads directly to:

How do you obtain a Starfighter? Buy an acre of land and wait…

I would like to fly this.

De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter

Best scheduled flight in the UK.

The Barra Twin Otter

X-15

If the guy in the picture looked any cooler he’d freeze to death.

X-15

If the guy in the picture looked any cooler he’d freeze to death.

Then you’ve the Tupolev ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky” that looks like a 1930’s American burger restaurant with wings.

Sadly, it also flew like one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_ANT-20#1935_Maxim_Gorky_crash

Pitts Special, for (sort of) inventing the small aero bipe

Flying luxury hotel for 10 people, so awesome in a slightly different way to most on this thread (G650):

For the record picture taken from google

XB-70 Valkyrie

Mach 3+, designed to ride on it’s own shockwave.

I think our company planes are pretty cool. I am biased though…

Morning inspection by jwrfooo[/url], on Flickr

Take off by jwrfooo[/url], on Flickr

I like this thread

Pilotless, its how things are going, Taranis is one of the first stealth efforts

and for all of the former Air Cadets, this is probably why you like this thread

or

or for the youngsters

Handy they didnt have these at the start FW190

Please name your planes as I dont know lots of them, thanks 🙂