Best looking airplane in your log book.

Nark

Nark

Macho Superpilot
A toss up for me:
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I don't have a pic, but I've always been partial to a little red and white 140 in which I got my tail wheel endorsement.
 
I was gonna talk some poop about "good looking" airplanes and the nancies who fly them. But I confess, hacker wins, and I'm green with envy. Although I still contend that the stang would look better with some oil leaks, kill decals, and 20mm holes from the dern naaaazis.

PS. You'd be even cooler if it were a Jug. Six Mas ain't enough...I want EIGHT and a RADIAL.
 
Boris Badenov said:
I was gonna talk some poop about "good looking" airplanes and the nancies who fly them. But I confess, hacker wins, and I'm green with envy. Although I still contend that the stang would look better with some oil leaks, kill decals, and 20mm holes from the dern naaaazis.
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Well, if you're looking for a real war horse, then there's always this beast (during OIF 2007):

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I don't know, I was going to say Hacker but AMG fly's Hornets and of course we have our resident A-10 driver in MikeD but no sure if the 10 is cool, ugly, or just bad-a$$. However, I forgot I logged 6.5 hours, though in the back seat, of the TA-7C with VA-122 many years ago. Being the A-7 Corsair II, it could technically go in the ugliest plane you've flown but for me, I love Vought products and I think it's a thing of beauty.

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Hacker15e said:
Well, if you're looking for a real war horse, then there's always this beast (during OIF 2007)
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I don't think there's anything left to say. I mean I could pull some poop out of my nether regions about how the A-10 is the spiritual descendant of the Original Hog, but I'd be talking poop above my paygrade, even for me (and that's saying something). That's a beautiful killing machine right there, if such a thing exists (and I fear it does).

But you know I won't leave without a parting shot, just not in me. If you read the abstracts, the later model 47s would eat the later model 51s' lunch, properly handled. With God knows how many inches of supercharged Uhoh, the Hog would outclimb the Pony at altitude, and while they sustained a turn about as well as a shopping cart full of lead, they had a fearsome instantaneous turn, firepower that would make Michael Wittmann weep, and since they weighed about as much as an aircraft carrier, they could dive away from a stang if they were low on energy and pull out while the stang pilot was learning what "mach tuck" meant.

I think what I meant to say is that I like round engines.
 
My favorite but no picture was the turbo seneca I flew over the summer with the classic red "shaggin wagon" interior...
 
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