Top Ten Fighter Planes of All Time

The Military Channel | multiple contributors

[wagglebee]

From Tibbets's website, it would appear that they have events planned for the 60th anniversary this summer, but it's hard to say.
http://www.enolagay.org/events.html

[Pharmboy]

Number 8

[Pharmboy]

Number 7

[Pharmboy]

Number 6

[Nowhere Man]

Wish the Avro Arrow was made, that would have made the list for sure. I have a soft spot in my heart for the CF-100 "Canuck" that you see in the background. B-)

[F14 Pilot]

F-14 is the best fighter jet ever created.

[Pharmboy]

Numbers 5

[Pharmboy]

Number 4

[onyx]

I saw where you managed to find the BRA thread, but not this one!

[Pharmboy]

Number 2

[Pharmboy]

Number One

[SunkenCiv]

"The F-4's performance in combat was too spotty for it to be #3, imo. However, it's versatility and long service do earn it a place in what should have been the lower reaches of the top 10."

Wasn't the F-4 a big fave at one time with the Israeli airforce? Maybe heavily modified, or copied (Kfir was a copy of the Mirage I think). Perhaps that was also considered by that author. Paint a blue star of David on the side of it, and pretty much any plane in the sky will cause skid marks in robes all over the middle east. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

Waggs, I love your sense of humor. More dead time in Purgatory for laughing at that one though. ;')

[Oztrich Boy]

Underrated: Messerschmidt 262

F-86 had a rockin' kill ratio, and was strong in every other category save innovation, as it ripped off the ME 262 in several ways.

The only way the F-86 "ripped off" the Me-262's "innovation" was an axial-flow engine, which was one of the Me-262's worst features: low-life, high-maintainence, unreliable, bad throttle response.

And the Me-262's kill ratio was scored against the bomber stream. If it had to match against a contempory or near-contemptory jet like the Gloster Meteor, Lockhheed P=80, or deHavilland Vampire (even with their "old-fasshioned" centrifugal-flow engines) it would have been toast.

[F16Fighter]

Whoops!

(In my defense,[IF you noticed] I made NO mention of the bra, OR it's contents :-D)

[F16Fighter]

Agreed...

The P-51 Mustang was dominant at the time.

[onyx]

Well, ok, but you were talking sausages and I can't imagine the relevance. Maybe you can explain? *wink*

[F16Fighter]

"Maybe you can explain? *wink*"

Yes I can.

First I was talking salamis, and secondly I was hungry, and thirdly stop getting me in trouble ;-)

[Pharmboy]

As my friend from Georgia would say: "Not anyone's pretty child," but very very effective.

[Rokke]

Obviously this list is all screwed up. All real fighter pilots KNOW the only true fighters have one seat, one tail and one motor. The correct answer is:
1. F-16C
2. F-16A
3. F-16D
4. F-16B
5. F-105
6. F-8
7. Mig-21
8. P-51
9. P-47
10. F-4U