ChrisL – I agree RE Jaguar, fabulous thing.

However, after seeing a French(?) one make an emergency landing in the field behind my house, when I was about 15 years old, a Harrier will remain cooler than a penguins pocket.

Does Ling do finance on them….?

F-35, better screens for watching Netflix on

‘Alexa, show Top G…. oh, right, yeah’

@bensales – that’s no good unless you can think in Russian !!

The plane I want is the one there are no pictures of. 😆

Just think where plane development might be now if some hadn’t been cancelled.

F4 Phantom for me.

I’d have the bottom one, higher resale value.

Top one is in service and doing good stuff. Bottom one is still ironing our the wrinkles. I also designed one of the bits in the top one.

Now – Typhoon.

5 years time – probably F35 but it would cause me great mental anguish.

YF-23 Black Widow(if it wasn’t a gate guardian). Supposedly faster and stealthier than the Raptor but lost out due to some clever marketing and politics by the F-22 manufacturer.

Su-35 for me.

Not enough love for the F-4 Phantom…..or indeed the Lockheed Starfighter. Looked fantastic to my young man eyes.

I’ve actually owned 2 jets, this F3 Tornado which I kept at RAF Leeming…

I used to let mates have a mooch.

& this old F4G that I had down at Alconbury…

(I accidently tore the photo up cos it was amongst some others I was chucking out. Till I realised)

Not enough love for the F-4 Phantom.

The F4 is probably my fave, meanest, nastiest looking jet ever!

In order of planes mentioned in this thread –
SR71 – fastest is fastest
Harrier – VTOL FTW
‘Phoon – spangly modern G-mentalist

The F35 makes the typhoon look old, design wise. Such is the nature of fighter aircraft life cycles.

F35, because we make them (well electronics for them anyway)

No your all wrong

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm hot russian ladies.

id take the one that has done the most missions with the highest kill count. people talking about looks!! if some anti aircraft gun was shooting at you why would you care what the thing looked like. you’d be looking the one that can get your ass outta there the fastest and evasive.

Spitfire it is, then. 🙂

Spitfire it is, then.

Yeah, they’re ok, fun to fly 8)

I’d have a Concorde.

ah ha but how would the spitfire fair nowadays? not too good. something more modern, whats been the latest successful jet?

ah ha but how would the spitfire fair nowadays? not too good. something more modern, whats been the latest successful jet?

How do you define successful?

Baddest-ass of all

Vongassit: don’t be a flanker….

The F35 is awesome…when it works.

I’ll take a Typhoon please!

One of these. But only because there are bits of one to be found in a bog not far from here. Rumour has it there may even be some unaccounted for depleted uranium shells up there too. Not fast, not pretty, but decidedly efficient in what it was designed to do.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm hot russian ladies.

That plane is a) Ukrainian, and b) very, very similar to an F-15.

EDIT: Okay, with respect to point ‘b’, not as much as I thought.

F-15:

Sukhoi
sukhoi.org/eng
The JSC Sukhoi Company is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, and designs both civilian and military aircraft. It was founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau. The Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.

Maybe not so much on point a either 😉

Point taken! I was thinking of the markings, though… 🙂

Oh, and midlifecrashes, good call on the Arrow. Fantastic plane!

Thats just her best outfit 😀

Hot Ukrainian ladies?

Ah Miss Monique.

If we’re adding Sukhoi jets to the options:

The Spitfire might have been sexier, but it didn’t have the most kills.

Battle of Britain I think you’re right aracer, overall WW2, I’d not be so sure

the future is pilotless and drone shaped