This is a beautiful plane

[Virtus_Probi]

Originally Posted By: CT8
I like planes with Bathrooms as I am at that age.


I always make sure I am completely off caffeine when I fly now...think I had to make 5 bathroom trips on a flight from MA to CA when I was hooked and it was embarrassing. I was having 5-6 caffeinated drinks a day at that time, now I shoot for 2 max and 0 ideally even when I don't have a trip coming up.

Funny how I automatically look for a bathroom and make a stop whenever I am leaving anyplace more than 10 minutes from my destination now, never thought about stuff like that when I was young.

 

[wings&wheels]

Pure beauty would either be the Lockheed Model 10 Electra or the Northrup Gamma. Golden Age art deco at its best.

With beauty being in the eye of the beholder, I've always been fascinated by the Handley Page Victor, although bizarre is probably more appropriate.

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi

I bet test pilot Joe Walker would like to have a do over for the last B-70 he ever saw.

 

[brave sir robin]

Originally Posted By: Astro14
I've been partial to a few airplanes...and built models of many...including the SR-71, and 727, which I've always liked...

But my favorite still has to be the F-14 Tomcat.

you got that right

 

[brave sir robin]

the polished Red Bull P-38 is the best looking warbird I have seen

A E S T H E T I C

 

[LoneRanger]

Here's a Beautiful Plane that's attainable . . .

Jabiru J-230D Light Sport. Same airframe and engine as the homebuilt Jabiru J-430 (gross weight 1540 lbs / 698 kg) but restricted to 1320 lb to comply with US regs. Garmin G3X touch screen glass cockpit: 2 axis AP w/ stability ctrl, 2020 compliant ADS-B w/ weather and traffic.

 

[BrocLuno]

Staggerwing Beach

 

[wings&wheels]

Originally Posted By: BrocLuno
Staggerwing Beach

yeah, I'm with you there...plus the Cessna 195. Actually, if you love airplanes they are all beautiful in their own functional way, even the Airtruk

 

[DeepFriar]

I've always had a real weakness for utility airplanes. My wife just looks at me crosseyed when I point one out and say what a nice airplane it is. But the Airtruk...I may have to draw the line. Perfect for a Mad Max movie though. The Polish Mielec M28 "Airtruck" is another one I like. There's no explaining it. I prefer stray dogs too.

 

[BusyLittleShop]

Below are 4 of my favorite aircraft besides the razor back Mustang Betty Jane
Prop hug I'm in love with Betty Jane

1913 Deperdussin Monocoque Racer... Mr.Bechereau's monoplane was the
first to break the 200 kph (124 mph) 'barrier' and was the 'speed
phenomenon' of the years before the First World War... Look closely
and you can see the design trend that all will follow in the years
leading up to WW2...

1913 Deperdussin was not only fast but also the first pure sex with
wings aircraft...

Deperdussin is popular with replica builders...

Italian Macchi Castoldi MC 72... In April 1933 over Garda Lake, in
northern Italy it set a record with a speed of 424 mph. Then, a year
and a half later in the same venue, it broke 700 km/h with an average
speed of 709.202 km/h (440.681 mph) in October 1934. Both times the
plane was piloted by Francesco Agello. This remains today the fastest
speed ever attained by a piston-engined seaplane...

Huges H1 racer...

The Hughes H-1 was a racing aircraft built by Hughes Aircraft in 1935.
It set a world airspeed record and a transcontinental speed record
across the United States. The H-1 Racer was the last aircraft built by
a private individual to set the world speed record; every aircraft to
hold the honor since was a military design. Both the Japanese and the
Germans were inspired by the design... Kurt Tank admits the Focke Wolf
190 was model after the lines H1 but Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the
Mitsubishi Zero strongly refutes the allegation that the Hughes H1
influencing his design of the Japanese fighter aircraft...

Bugatti 100P of 1938. It was soley designed as a racing plane, but was
never flown because WW2 intervened but the French saved the aircraft
and later sold it to the US EAA organization were it rest today...

 

[72te27]

HosteenJorje, I like your suggestion of the Spartan Executive.
When were you there? Were you an A&P or flight student? I instructed at Riverside with Spartan back in the mid '80's.

 

[Reg# 43897]

Oh man... I dunno.

P47N
Ta-152H or perhaps the Fw-190-A8
Mossie, any of 'em.
P51D
F7F
Ho-229

Then the jets...

Vulcan B.2
F14
F86
Concord
B1b
MiG-21

I could do on...

Also think that the Super-Connie is an amazing aircraft.

John.

 

[SEMI_287]

I AM biased though, my first flight was on a US Air 737-300.

 

[Astro14]

Victory 211. Buno 161134

Shown on the cat during Desert Storm.

It has my name on it. And I believe that's me in the cockpit.

A lot of combat missions in that jet and she was fast. Faster than other F-14s. That speed was critical when doing reconnaissance missions over Kuwait and Iraq. She always got me home safe.

Pretty is as pretty does.

 

[wings&wheels]

Found this pic I took while airport hopping in California a while back;

Two workhorses, beauty in functionality

 

[L_Sludger]

Originally Posted By: wings&wheels
Found this pic I took while airport hopping in California a while back;

Two workhorses, beauty in functionality



I love it. In a thread about beautiful planes, you had to post the genuinely ugliest plane unironically and call it beautiful. Yeesh! What's next? Shorts?