Mossies are lovely aircraft.

Otherwise, the various X-craft, just for being totally off the wall in terms of pushing the bounds of possibility....

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"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
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Any kind of Cesna. I live dangerously. ;)

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> Mossies are lovely aircraft.
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> Otherwise, the various X-craft, just for being
> totally off the wall in terms of pushing the
> bounds of possibility....

Assuming you mean the X-Men X-craft and not the Williams x-jet then I especially like the Blackbird - probably because it looks like the SR-71 on steroids!

The Mossie is certainly sleek and a thing of beauty but I mention (again!) the DH Dragon Rapide as an example of 1930's (art-deco?) design.

Would it be too bizarre to mention I have a Christmas tree full of airplanes (hot air balloons, helicopters and more flying machines)? Hallmark has made 13 planes so far in their "Sky's the Limit" ornament series, they make excellent scale models.

Fell in love with the Gee-Bee during the Rocketeer movie. It's such a distinctive little plane.

The Blackbird is like the Darth Vader of jets - I'm both in awe and fearful of it.

Are our answers earth-bound? My honey flew the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on its journey to Mars.

Wow! that makes your honey an almost astronaut (astronaut by proxy?) Deep envy here.

The Gee Bees are cute, but killers. I would love to see one in real life, although I did build a radio control model. (It lasted one flight of less than 20 seconds as the R/C models have similar control stability as the real thing and I ran out of talent before it was even airborne.)

The only time that I saw the SR-71, airborne it was perfection, on the ground it was a bit saggy and a leaky old thing, but I still love it!

We are on page 2 of this thread: even if the anyone insisted that the thread was earthbound it is about time to go off-topic. You may have noticed that only the game threads and of course the no-speaking in the treehouse are treated with any respect, thank goodness:)

The Blackbird looks pretty awesome at the National Air and Space Museum.

Probably the most amazing flight I've witnessed is the B2 Stealth Bomber. They've flown at low altitudes across the Rose Parade route a few times. You feel it shuddering in your lungs. Something that looks like a kite shouldn't make such noise! LOL.

Pity about your r/c Gee Bee. Was it salvageable in form if not in ability?

The r/c gear was reusable, but the Gee Bee airframe was reduced to shards of fibreglass and wood.

I meant these. Mostly for sheer cool.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

One plane I would like to see flying, probably I only see video, is the Northrop Flying Wing, built about 1948/50. 4 engines, turboprop I think, no tail- turned by airbraking using opposed flaps on the inside wing.

I have an article in a flying magazine which has travelled in boxes with me for 30 odd years and I think it is a quite amazing machine.

Pity jets came in, as also like the Constellation/ Super Constellation/ Viscount/ Brittania/ DC3/ Gypsy Moth/ etc.

This one's alright too

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(my best so far, 48.492 meters, and ranked 78124)

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(make that 19209 meters, and 77877, too much time on my hands? Me?)

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I always wonder what happened to the British aerospace innovation? We seemed to produce some truely iconic aircraft post wwII and now we have to outsource to the french to design??

Back on topic can you beat the Vickers C-type bomber?