To: Cobra64
Sexiest airplane (no longer in the air but you can walk up and touch one) has to be the SR 71 and its predecessors. We saw the M-21 and its drone, the D-21B at the Museum of flight in Seattle over Christmas. This airplane was designed in the late 1950s and had some of the first stealth technology.
73 posted on
01/08/2005 7:13:17 PM PST by
Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
When I was a kid back in the late 1950s, I liked the F86 because it was small and fast (as I was as a youngster). As a bomber, I was fond of the B-58 Hustler. The B-52 was impressive, but never stirred me up.
As I'm 55 years old though the B-52 has a different perspective, since still active for almost 60 years.
79 posted on
01/08/2005 7:22:30 PM PST by
Cobra64
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To: Eric in the Ozarks; All
SR-71 = THE sexiest aircraft to date, bar none.
B2, F22, f16 don't come close.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Sexiest airplane... has to be the SR 71 and its predecessors. Hard to argue with that; the Blackbird is indeed a beautiful piece of work. I once saw an SR-71 drop in on the Belle Chasse, Louisiana Naval Air Station back around 1988-89. I was in the right place at precisely the right time, driving along a highway near the Naval Air Station, when that unmistakable black shape glided overhead, its landing gear just beginning to lower. I was happy for a week. :-)
Wish this plane (which also rates a spot on the "sexiest aircraft list") had seen a production run; betcha it was really something to see in the air:
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