I personally think the Spitfire was the prettiest one ever made but the Messerscmidts, Lightnings, Mustangs, Focke Wulfes, and even the Zero and Thunderbolt were also works of art.
Yeah, I'm weird that way too. I'll admit to getting a lump in my throat when I see color film of B17's going out on a raid.
One day in the mid 90's I got the shock of my life. The place where I worked was right under Farmingdale's final approach. I was used to all manner of engine sounds during the work day- Jets, turbojets, radial etc. One day I go to the john and I'm about to do my business when the walls start to vibrate, the floor (which was a massive industrial construction) follows suit. I feel the engines in my bones! The note has a lor roar that I'd never heard before I said out loud: 'what the hell is that'? I step over to the window, and there, so close I can almost touch it is that utterly distinctive four engine front silhouette COMING DIGHT AT ME!I never in a million years expected to see that particular sight.
Later I saw it, barely 200 feet over St Charles cemetery, do a STEEP turn. It seemed to just hang there, it's wing tip closer to the ground than is healthy in a plane that size. But it was empty with all four engines gunned, so no prob!
My favorite plane of that era is the De Haviland Mosquito.