The best looking aircraft of all time…

[Nuno Pinto 1,413]

My favourite is the McDonnell-Douglas MD-11. There's nothing like it.

[anden145 2,299]

Boeing 747-series in my book!
Boeing 747-400 is probably my preference. 

[Lonesome Cowboy Burt 170]

If I was to restrict myself to Airliners I don't think anything can touch the VC10

 

Lets face it when put against this model of elegance an A380 looks like the fat girl you had to sit next to in school

Edited April 11 by Lonesome Cowboy Burt

[threexgreen 3,156]

Airliner: 707

Biz: Falcon 8X

[Delta111 29]

Rockwell B-1 Lancer

[BillW 212]

F-16

[Nicholas Jackson 39]

Military TSR2

Commercial Boeing 757

[james42 260]

Tupolev Tu-144. 

[chris_eve 14]

For pure aesthetic attraction ... I really do like several older De Havilland designs, the pre-war DH88 Comet Racer, the DH104 Dove, the original DH106 Comet (despite it's design faults) and the DH114 Heron all appeal to my eyes 🙂

 

[bluescast 19]

F-111?

[Luis Hernandez 586]

727-100 for me, please. That's the plane that made me fall in love with aviation.

Edited April 11 by Luis Hernandez

[fppilot 4,391]

7 hours ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

edit...also a bit puzzled where the number 8  and 4 on each side comes from?

 

I was regarding the B36 as having three radials and one jet engine on each side.  Did not realize it was actually two jet engines on each side.  BTW, an uncle of mine was a flight engineer on a B36 that was converted into a mid-air refueler near the end of its service.  He later was one of the initial crew members on C5A's at its outset.

"Beginning with the B-36D, Convair added a pair of General Electric J47-19 jet engines suspended near the end of each wing; these were also retrofitted to all extant B-36Bs. Consequently, the B-36 was configured to have 10 engines, six radial propeller engines and four jet engines"

[dmwalker 612]

31 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Did not realize it was actually two jet engines on each side.

"Six turning, four burning."

[martin-w 3,258]

Surprised nobody has mentioned the Vulcan. And of course, as Ray will know, same engines as Concorde.

 

 

 

[martin-w 3,258]

I really like Alice, and I've told her so.  😉

 

 

 

F22 looks stunning of course.

 

Edited April 11 by martin-w