[zarf]

The F-16 and the B-1 are still the sexiest planes in the air. The 22 looks like the bastard child of the British Tornado and the F-18.

[okie01]

The F-16 and the B-1 are still the sexiest planes in the air.

My vote would be the P-38. But I don't believe there are any "in the air" anymore...

[joem15]

I love the F-16, I made a good part of my living selling components for the F-16 in the early 1980's. At the same time it is still, now, a NATO plane, built in Europe for European pilots. The technology of the F-16 goes back to 1970's. It was a single engine,good for defense, airplane. The F-22 is a totally kick A** airplane that has moves and grooves that we will never know about. It will take any existing, or future, aircraft, Russian, French, European, what have you, DOWNTOWN! The USA rules the sky with this airplane.

[Cobra64]

The F-16 and the B-1 are still the sexiest planes in the air.

I agree. But I also hold a warm part of me for the A10. Comparing the F-16 to the A10 is similar to a contrast between an Aston Martin to a Mini Cooper. Both work extrmely well given their tasks and capabilities.

[VaBthang4]

Yeah...IMHO the F16 is the baddest looking plane....running a close second would be any platform with US or Evil Jew insignia.

[johnb838]

The F-16 and the B-1 are still the sexiest planes in the air

Stealth is sexy.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

The F-16 and the B-1 are still the sexiest planes in the air.

Perhaps--in the air today. And the F-22 is certanly technologically advanced.

But if you give points for being "ahead of its time", I say no aircraft will ever be "sexier" than the F-104, designed 50 years ago.

This Lockheed fighter was designed by the famous Skunkworks under Kelly Johnson at Lockheed. Its famous wing (or lack of; it was so thin it was like a knife) and technological breakthroughs made this aircraft a quantum leap ahead of others in technological advances. And it looked damned good to, nicknamed officially the "Starfighter" but known to pilots as the "missile with a man in it".

[King Prout]

ah... but then you see it fly, and your jaw clangs soddenly to the turf.

[fire_eye]

You need to look at the profile as viewed by a rug pilot who just cranked his neck around and checked 6:00 and noticed it riding his ass.

It looks just fine from that perspective.