[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".

[Nowhere Man]

Since we are posting pics of classic aircraft, ome of my favorites has been the Avro Arrow and the Avro CF-100 Canuck. I'd like to toss in the F-105, F-4 and A-5 Vigilante.



The Arrow is in the foreground and the Canuck is in the background. A cool page to go to is: http://www.spitcrazy.com/avroarrowpage.htm

[Atchafalaya]

Ahhh, we think alike. No other plane looks as good as the Starfighter.