The best looking aircraft of all time…

[TheFamilyMan 280]

9 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

Convair B-58 Hustler

A mean-looking, awe-inspiring sister. Doomsday raw power.

Delivering 3.8 megatons of annihilation at supersonic speed, so glad it never flew its intended mission.  I remember seeing one on the ground at a Mather Field airshow when I was 5.   It proudly wore the SAC emblem and was roped off to close public access.

Edited April 11 by TheFamilyMan

[Fielder 3,696]

My opinion hasn't ever changed since I was kid. The Albatross D.III (the D.II is close but doesn't look quite as predatory).

 

 

[IanHarrison 524]

12 hours ago, trainnut said:

Both hard to work on & unreliable.😁

Which no bearing on their looks.

[Paul K 1,356]

You can close the thread now.

[RichieFly 735]

I'll say F/A-18.

It really captured my imagination when I first saw one and then saw the Blue Angles preform at airshows. To me, the perfect distillation of power and agility.

[dmwalker 611]

I always liked the Handley Page Victor.

[Patco Lch 1,474]

Never saw an airplane that I didn’t thunk was a beauty. Even gangly looking helicopters.

[Paul K 1,356]

35 minutes ago, Patco Lch said:

Never saw an airplane that I didn’t thunk was a beauty. Even gangly looking helicopters.

 

 

Hold my beer.

[Wobbie 938]

16 minutes ago, Paul K said:

 

 

Hold my beer.

Now THAT is stunning!! Guess it's French? Just what we need for our sims.

My tie for my 1st Place is the XB-70 Valkyrie & the Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan.  

[LHookins 3,104]

A lot of gorgeous aircraft in this thread.

For me, the aircraft that looks the most like I think an aircraft should look is the DC-3.  Does it look beautiful, or does it just look right?

Hook

[F737MAX 5,699]

9 hours ago, martin-w said:

Surprised nobody has mentioned the Vulcan

'Head' is too bulbous for me, which is a shame because the design (apart from the cockpit placement) is great otherwise. The H.P. Victor's cockpit is better integrated into the fuselage design, IMHO.

[Fielder 3,696]

Another good one, Lockheed Electra 12A

 

 

[IanHarrison 524]

8 hours ago, IanHarrison said:

Which no bearing on their looks.

*has

[Dominique_K 10,151]

7 hours ago, LHookins said:

A lot of gorgeous aircraft in this thread.

For me, the aircraft that looks the most like I think an aircraft should look is the DC-3.  Does it look beautiful, or does it just look right?

Hook

There are aircraft which don’t need to be good looking, They carry such an emotional load, at least for older people, that they transcend beauty.. The Dc3 has been here for so long, she is a link to our past. And she was a humble but decisive bird of freedom, WW2 , Berlin airlift. I boarded a Dc-3 and a C47 in SE Asia 50 years ago,. I felt I was part of history 😁.

[Dominique_K 10,151]

10 hours ago, Patco Lch said:

Never saw an airplane that I didn’t thunk was a beauty. Even gangly looking helicopters.

You have a point here, anything leaving the ground andmoving through the air all by itself reflects the beauty of the human mind.

 Now about looking gangly, I have a personal fondness for the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady