Post your favorite airplanes

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Modern..


F-22 Raptor:

A10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog)

 

[Doughie99]

jesus christ lol

that engine did not like intruders

the guy actually survived with realtively minor injuries. His helmet and coat got suked in and shredded but he someone got jammed in front of the blades and survived. Ridiculously lucky. He would've been pulped.

 

[Nok Su Kao]

Tuskegee Airman "Red Tail" P-51 Mustang

Sexy!

 

[Nok Su Kao]

Modern..


F-22 Raptor:

A10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog)

Nice lineup!
I would add the P-38 lighting

 

[flashNsmash]

the guy actually survived with realtively minor injuries. His helmet and coat got suked in and shredded but he someone got jammed in front of the blades and survived. Ridiculously lucky. He would've been pulped.

insane... yeah the helmet probably gummed up the works enough. i'm sure everyone on the flight deck thought he was a goner

 

[DanSavage]

P 47 ‘Juggernaut’

FWIW, the 'official' name assigned to the P-47 was "Thunderbolt."

The "Jug" nickname was given to it by the pilots and crew because they thought the airplane looked like a milk jug laying on its side.

 

[Padre]

Went to an airshow when I was a kid, and one of these did a fly by. Nobody said a word while it was flying over, it was almost eerie.

 

[William Huggins]

As a kid I used to think the B-17 was the most badass plane ever, but as an adult I realized it was just a death trap. As a kid I used to think the Mosquito was boring AF, but as an adult I realized the Mosquito was actually the most badass plane around

It had about the same bomb weight capacity too....

 

[milliniar]

Much better than the sequel.

 

[William Huggins]

English Electric Lighting



BAC TRS2

 

[HindustaniKush]

 

[Thai Domi]

F14 was the best, jet blast area so big that no one could escape when you turned one on someone on deck, flap your arms, tuck and roll.

There was a kid on my ship nicknamed Tumbleweed for this very reason
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[AGGAMEMNON66]

FWIW, the 'official' name assigned to the P-47 was "Thunderbolt."

The "Jug" nickname was given to it by the pilots and crew because they thought the airplane looked like a milk jug laying on its side.

I know, but it’s known as the Jug just like the A10 Thunderbolt II is known as the ‘Warthog’

Edit:

I’d add that it was also know as the Juggernaut which gets shortened and confused with its ‘milk bottle’ moniker too.. but they were actually separate nicknames. But when shortening it to ‘Jug’ it can be confused to mean one or the other. However, it’s worth noting that Brits didnt refer to ‘jugs’ at that time in the same manner we in the states would -they’d call that a ‘churn’.. so ‘Jug’ in this planes case is short for Juggernaut, which is in reference to how tough and overly large the plane was combined with its dive speed.


The confusion comes in when the 4th fighter group started referring to them as ‘7 ton milk bottles’


I know wiki says different -but I have a collection of printed WWII Aviation books that were printed in the 60’s through the 80’s that explains all of this. Wiki is incorrect here

 

[BangBang]

 

[SKZR]

There was a kid on my ship nicknamed Tumbleweed for this very reason
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lol jet blast is something special

 

[Tone C]

Much better than the sequel.

Shirley not.

 

[DanSavage]

I know wiki says different -but I have a collection of printed WWII Aviation books that were printed in the 60’s through the 80’s that explains all of this. Wiki is incorrect here

I didn't use wiki for this reference.

 

[flashNsmash]

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English Electric Lighting

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BAC TRS2

*TSR-2

the lightning was notoriously difficult to work on with the vertically stacked engines, but quite the interceptor for its time

 

[genecop]

Cadillac of the Sky, for the time, this was it…

 

[genecop]

Let’s not forget what started it all..