Topic: Very impressed! (how about planes?)

[Iceman]

I was always partial to the F-14.  but thats just me.

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

Rather than an individual pilot how about a group?  Tuskegee Airmen  aka the Redtails.

The combat record of the Tuskegee Airmen

? Over 15,000 combat sorties (Including 6000+ for the 99th prior to July '44)
? 111 German airplanes destroyed in the air
? 150 German aircraft destroyed on the ground
? 950 railcars, trucks, and other motor vehicles destroyed
? 1 destroyer sunk by P-47 machine gun fire
? Sixty-six pilots killed in action or accidents
? Thirty-two pilots downed and captured, POWs
? NO Bombers were ever lost to Enemy Aircraft while being escorted
? 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses earned
? 744 Air Medals
? 8 Purple Hearts
? 14 Bronze Stars

For aircraft I am rather partial to:

The Mosquito
P-38 Lightning
The White Knight


and of course who can forget the greatest of all?  Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel?  

[KOTH-Steel Claw]

planes - bombers/fighter bombers
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B-24
B-25 (especially ones set up by Kenney in Pacific Theater)
B-26
Lancaster
Ju-88
SBD-2
B-1(Note: look up GO-225 )
Mosquito
He-111
Il-2
Me-410
 

[TheJudge]

F-14.

Of course I got to ride in one, so I'm very partial...


 

[ChrsLWlstr]

Nothing says "Azzkicker" more than the A-10...  

[Verroc]

If you like WWI, then i get highly recommend you get yourself a copy of

"King of Air Fighters: The Biography of Major "Mick" Mannock, V.C., D.S.O., M.C."

Its an awsome book by ira jone's, a great WWI ace in his own right.

Nice page you might like

The Aerodrome

 

[KOTH-Steel Claw]

Thanks!

[Dash Jones]

Hmm, Favorite Pilot...

Chuck Yeager...

Though John Glenn comes in that picture as well...

And favorite Plane

Space Shuttle

I'd say the Gemini, but it wasn't really a plane...

As far as those that couldn't go to space...

Probably the F-15

I also really like

The

F-4
P-51
B-17

and the

F-5

Currently, the F-15 still is used (when the heck is the US going to actually use the F-22, or is that top secret?)

And the F-18 looks pretty nice.

That's for military planes at least.

Non-military, I like the concord (sad about what has happened), also like the Symphony as a small little plane to fly for private, cheap too.

[Zenister]

plane?
 King Air...tiny door, but great time to altitude

SkyVan, loud ugly, but a lovely tail gate... to launch large flowers out off...exits are almost to easy... and hanging from the tail as a large flat formation rolls out is a breeze....

Pilots dave or Jeff...hard flying hard drinking good mates
 

[BortaS]

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plane?
 King Air...tiny door, but great time to altitude

SkyVan, loud ugly, but a lovely tail gate... to launch large flowers out off...exits are almost to easy... and hanging from the tail as a large flat formation rolls out is a breeze....

Pilots dave or Jeff...hard flying hard drinking good mates
 

Which King Air?  The 100 is junk!  200 is good, but that 350 is a monster.  Assuming you like props!

[762]

Coolest plane never produced: the XB-70 Valkyrie.

[Tremok]

 Favorite pilots? Don't particularally have a favorite pilot. That first generation of astronuats and those X-planes test pilots did some amazing things.

Favorite plane? Easy. The Saturn V! I walked around the one at the Johnson Space Center. Impressive and beautiful. A true pity that she never flew as Apollo 18 as planned. Dwarfs the Mercury-Redstone and Little Joe II rockets there to the utmost since of the word.

2) The Space Shuttle.

3) The X-15. Twice as fast as the SR-71.

4) The B-1B Lancer. An incredibly advance monster of a machine that can outrun anything in the world at sea-level. Plus the best looking plane I ever saw.

5) The P-38 Lightning. My favorite WW2 plane.

6) The F-4 Phantom. A brute plane that gets by on power.      

[Zenister]

 

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Which King Air?  

specifically? Mike Mullen's  a 'suped' up 350 its probably the fastest ride to 16k i've ever had...under 5 min and he usually beats the first jumpers down too...watching him barrel roll over and pass you nose down after your head down flower leaves is a thing of beauty.... the man really likes to push his plane..

of course for general day to day operations nothing beats a Super Otter....

[BortaS]

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Which King Air?  

specifically? Mike Mullen's  a 'suped' up 350 its probably the fastest ride to 16k i've ever had...under 5 min and he usually beats the first jumpers down too...watching him barrel roll over and pass you nose down after your head down flower leaves is a thing of beauty.... the man really likes to push his plane..

of course for general day to day operations nothing beats a Super Otter....  

Ever see Bob Hoover's show in his Aero Commander?  Far and away the best display of airmanship you can ever watch!  I have the video of him pouring a glass of Iced Tea while looping!

The fastest climb I ever had was when we took off empty with about 2 hours of gas in a Citation X.  We burried the VSI at 14,000 fpm.  When we leveled off ATC laughed and asked if that was a RATO. (Rocket assist)  I miss that machine!