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Let's talk about planes, helicopters and other vehicles, that soar in the sky.
Even fictional aircraft are acceptable.
Now let us begin!

The ugly knows no bounds.

If I may ask, what kind of aircraft is this? It looks like it's having a big grin.

Boeing X-32

American experimental jet fighter.
It was a competitor to x-35 (experimental version for F-35) for the Joint Strike Fighter contest.
It lost. And it is one of the uglier planes out there.

i never thought kym would have a plane thread. Also, the FA18E/F superhornet sucks.

Best plane coming through!

@YART

Real planes would do.

Also it's very helpful to name the planes you like because we know what it is.

I can see everything!

Take a look at this thing.

This is Ho 229.
This is thing was build 45 years earlier than B-2. But unlike B-2 it was never used in combat.
This thing was a B-2 before B-2 even existed.
There is only one original airframe of this aircraft now.

Pretty biased towards the F4 because my dad flew these back in the day.

X-02A Wyvern from the Ace Combat series.

>aircraft general
>not mentioning tank-ship-planes

WAT R U CASUL??
In all serious though, I gotta go with the old Spitfire, I really like its design.

Can't get enough of that 30 mm GAU cannon.

Get on my level.

This fella looks familiar.

The perfect Aircraft

AC-130H BADASS AIR SUPPORT INBOUND!

Largest airplane out there, An-225.
Look at its sheer size.
And VERY heavy.

Oh boy, so many military airplanes. But how about a passenger plane? Especially one as sexy as the Concorde?

@Terring

I'm going to quote you

" sexy as the Concorde? Seriously if I could, I would make sweet love bah puttin' mah dick in dem hot engines."

The Harrier Jump Jets were always my favorite.

Fucking Soviets built all sorts of crazy shit. TB-3 for example; carried tanks across the landscape and allowed for light fighters/biplanes to take off from it.

Let's not forget they wanted "flying" tanks.

Dassault Rafale.
Very elegant airplane (not surprising since it is French)

I see no love for support planes

E-3 Sentry

E-2 Hawkeye

gatta see em to shoot em

KC-135R_Stratotanker

and can't fly a plane without fuel!

The USS Macon (ZRS-4) recovering its F9C-2s.

An F9C-2 docking and being stored in the Macon's hanger bay.

>tfw we'll never have airborne aircraft carriers again
Why even bother living?

THE MIGHTY HINDENBURG!

Oh yeah, that's right.
( ;_;)7

I don't know, I think it lasted longer than the Titanic.

2 more sexy ladies that turns the skies on. Beech 2000 Starship (above) and White Knight One carrying the SpaceShipOne (below).

Also how could we forget helicopters?

I love the Huey, and the "twin" variant is pretty sexy


The really beefy designs are really nice, like the Chinook

And how could we forget the Sea King, which has the honor of transporting the POTUS?

Su-47 Berkut.
On of the coolest looking Sukhois of all time.
Still in development.

Grumman X-29.
I'm a sucker for forward-swept wings and experimental aircraft.

More experimental aircrafts.

Bell X-1, the first aircraft that broke the sound barrier.

Bell X-5, the first aircraft with variable geometry wings.

North American X-15, The first manned hypersonic aircraft. For those who are not familiar, the term "hypersonic" has generally been assumed to refer to speeds of Mach 5 and above.

SNECMA Coléoptère, famous for its annular wing.

ivan to make shootings of air from tank yuo make tank the air

Aerocar

Moller M400 SkyCar

The RAH-66 Commanche

Experimental helicopter with stealth capabilities. Sucks that they canceled it…

VZ-9 Avrocar.
This was a legit thing.

XB-70 Valkyrie.
This thing would have been a hypersonic, nuclear-armed, stealth bomber. That's just fucking badass!

>"Even fictional aircraft"

Beware the invisible!

F-117 Nighthawk

B-2 Spirit

Looks like China is getting into stealth lately.

J-20.
One cool looking jet, even if it resembles another plane.
But that is not all.

J-31.
Similarities between J-31 and F-22 are undeniable.

Russia has a stealth plane too.

Sukhoi "T-50" PAK-FA.
Neat.

Northrop YF-23.
This stealth fighter design was the experimental competitor of the F-22A Raptor. It was faster and stealthier than the F-22, but less agile. I personally like it more.

Northrop YB-35.

Northrop YB-37, jet powered successor prototype to the YB-35.

Northrop Grumman B-2, first flown 43 years after the YB-35's first flight.

It depends on how you look at it. The Titanic sank in the early hours of the morning on the fifth day of its voyage, whereas the Hindenburg crashed on the third day of its voyage. However, the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, whereas the Hindenburg had made a single round trip across the Atlantic before its destruction. Thus, while the Titanic survived longer on its final voyage, the Hindenburg had greater total travel time.

Also, on the actual thread topic:

The Spruce Goose, bitches. Largest wingspan of any aircraft ever made, capable of landing on water, and made mostly from wood.

ADFX-02 Morgan, the predecessor to the ADF-01 FALKEN.

No love for cargo and passenger planes? Well, let's change that.

Handley Page H.P.42

De Havilland Comet

Boeing 314 Clipper

Tupolev Tu-144, also known as "Concordski"

Airbus A380

Mil V-12, the largest helicopter ever made

Cargo planes you say?

Airbus Beluga.
This thing scared me when I was a kid.