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May 20th, 2009, 05:39 PM
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Low level nuclear strike
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Top 5 best looking airliners!
What are everyone’s top 5 best looking commercial airliners? I know this isn’t exactly military aviation, but I thought it would be fun and I didn’t know where else to put it.
1 – Vickers Super VC10  2 – Convair 990 (looks like it could be a bomber)  3 – Hawker Siddeley Trident 3 (great arrangement of 4 engines)  4 – Lockheed Super Constellation  5 - Tupolev Tu-154  Mentions to the Bristol Britannia, DH.91 Albatross, DH.89 Dragon Rapide, Ilyushin Il-62, Concorde, Boeing 757-300, Airbus A321 and Boeing 767-300/400. 
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May 20th, 2009, 05:50 PM
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Excellent choices James
 1. Concorde - flying sex?  2. Comet  3. BAe 146  4. Tristar  5. Sukhoi Superjet - Yes it's Russian, but there's something about it I find excellent 
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May 20th, 2009, 07:03 PM
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My Mind Has Left My Body
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I always really loved the look of the DC-10
 My favorite still is the 747  Boeing 757 
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May 22nd, 2009, 05:13 PM
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Low level nuclear strike
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I also forgot to mention the Sud SE-210 Caravelle, with its triangular windows!
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I said that the F-35B was wrong for the UK! "All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR.2 simply got the first three right." - Sir Sydney Camm "Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result" - James May |
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May 24th, 2009, 12:05 PM
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I love those crazy dutch
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A380
 Ilyushin Il-96  Short 360  Douglas DC-3 
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May 24th, 2009, 01:19 PM
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No 1, 2, and 3:
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May 24th, 2009, 05:44 PM
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Prepare to die.
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I got to fly on Concorde back in the 1980s. Beautiful aircraft.
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July 15th, 2009, 03:12 PM
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Bossman
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July 15th, 2009, 04:11 PM
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Low level nuclear strike
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TallBox, you sound like a man who likes tri-jets! Do you also like T-tails?
Anyway, always preferred the 767 over the 777, and A330/A340s over the 777 too. I just don’t like the A380 – to me it doesn’t look right. A bit like the A318, which has to be the most out of proportion aircraft flying – its back end is too big.  Airbus' best looking aircraft is the A321. No question (especially in the Lufthansa retro design). I'm with Sydney Camm - if it looks right, it'll fly right. With his work on the Hawker Hunter, he should know.
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I said that the F-35B was wrong for the UK! "All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR.2 simply got the first three right." - Sir Sydney Camm "Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result" - James May Last edited by TSRJames; July 15th, 2009 at 04:16 PM. |
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May 24th, 2009, 05:54 PM
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May 25th, 2009, 09:44 PM
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Fear me
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June 8th, 2009, 09:21 PM
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 I've also always had a soft spot for the DC8. 
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May 25th, 2009, 10:37 PM
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Concorde
 747  A330  757  DC10 
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June 10th, 2009, 07:38 AM
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June 11th, 2009, 04:39 PM
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Low level nuclear strike
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Easily the best looking paint job goes to Lufthansa and their 'retro' jet. It's just first class.
  Which you can now buy in 1/144 kit form (i'm a 1/72 man myself). 
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I said that the F-35B was wrong for the UK! "All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR.2 simply got the first three right." - Sir Sydney Camm "Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result" - James May Last edited by TSRJames; June 11th, 2009 at 04:47 PM. |
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July 15th, 2009, 01:25 PM
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In addition to those posted above, some of which are my favourites:
A340-500 (cos i prefer the look of the RR Trent engines to the nacelled-CFMs) DC-10 Tristar Concorde Comet Il-96 B747-400 I'd also like to throw these into the mix: Embraer 170/175  MD-11 - I love the look of McDonnell Douglas cockpits from the outside  B777-200LR 
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May 25th, 2009, 11:40 PM
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Simples
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The BAE 146 is such a nice little plane
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May 26th, 2009, 02:12 PM
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Proponent of Leeds
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 Courtesy of www.panamair.com I love the image of the Boeing 314 'Clippers' which were so advanced and glamorous for their time, introduced in such an exciting era for travel. They offered the first scheduled trans-atlantic services in 1939 as well as trans-Pacific services, and were the last word in luxury travel. Their premature retirment in 1946 was only due to the rapid advance of larger land based airliners.  They were operated by BOAC as well as PanAm. The British equivalent at that time was the Short Empire flying boats, which were more succesful commercially with a much larger number built. These were all operated originally by Imperial Airways, later with BOAC and Quantas, and they helped to link the various outposts of the British Empire in the 1930s/40s.  Courtesy of www.airwaveyachts.com.au  Courtesy of the Google LIFE gallery  Courtesy of the Google LIFE gallery Not the most elegant looking aircraft ever built, but clearly effective and advanced for their time. The last two images shows one comandered for war time use, and the basic design was developed into the famous Short Sunderland.
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Visit Leeds on Skyscrapernews.com Last edited by Rob; May 28th, 2009 at 05:47 PM. |
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May 26th, 2009, 02:51 PM
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My Arse is Grass!
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All the pics are already here, but:
1)Comet 2)Concorde 3)A380 4)VC10 5) everything else
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June 4th, 2009, 11:10 AM
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Clearly the British made the best looking airliners
Concorde  DH Comet  VC10  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yEan...eature=related DH Dragon Rapide  Junkers 52 
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