What's your favourite jet fighter

TOMGREEN413 · Post by **TOMGREEN413** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:13 pm

Gotta be the Mach 2.2 lightning that could go supersonic I'm a straight climb from take off, climb to 88,000 feet and go from runway to 30,000ft in under 90 seconds

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buzyg · Post by **buzyg** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:32 pm

The vampire wins for me.

I used to walk past one, parked in some blokes garden, on my way home from junior school.

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enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:39 pm

Sorry it's not quite a fighter, but the 'mud-mover' Tornado GR1/4 came into service about the same time I did and it went out when my lad was working on the same airframes that I did.
So no contest for me I'm afraid.

In it's defence, climbing wasn't it's forte, but nothing could stick with it at 50 feet or less through the valleys.

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:43 pm

And if we're talking altitude then there was the famous incident where the Americans presented NATO commanders with a photograph of Russian defences taken from a U2 and an RAF officer quietly slipped in a photograph from a Canberra, looking down on the U2 as it took the photos.

buzyg · Post by **buzyg** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:58 pm

enuff_zed wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:43 pmCanberra

Oh the WB57s.

I would love to know what altitude the two photos were taken from. I guess we never will though.

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 3:03 pm

For me it would have to be ME262. If it had come out 12 months earlier in sufficient numbers who knows what the outcome would have been.

https://youtu.be/_vndZPvj9cQ?si=ZFz15DdGGjapwzXI

Still looks modern today.

Tim.

patriot66 · Post by **patriot66** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 3:41 pm

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Wow ! That's difficult to narrow it down to just one but I really admire SAAB aircraft. The J35 Draken, J37 Viggen and J39 Gripen in particular. My favourite is perhaps the Viggen. How Sweden with a population of just 10.5 million can design, build and develop machines like this completely 'in-house' is truly amazing

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Perhaps I'm a little biased though as I was born in Linköping, the hometown of the SAAB aircraft factory !

TOMGREEN413 · Post by **TOMGREEN413** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:27 pm

love all, the above jets , especially the Saab Viggen.......superb photos

TOMGREEN413 · Post by **TOMGREEN413** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:31 pm

buzyg wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:32 pm The vampire wins for me.

I used to walk past one, parked in some blokes garden, on my way home from junior school.

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Would love to own a 50s jet and stick it in the garden.......I think I'd enjoy sitting in the cockpit with a beer

Pondrew · Post by **Pondrew** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:03 pm

This one:

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pvr · Post by **pvr** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:13 pm

I bet she could kill Russians easily

Nanu · Post by **Nanu** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:58 pm

Thumbs up for Pondy's suggestion, my fav Jet also by far

TOMGREEN413 · Post by **TOMGREEN413** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:55 pm

Nictrix · Post by **Nictrix** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:57 pm

The Vulcan for the sound alone

TOMGREEN413 · Post by **TOMGREEN413** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:59 pm

I should have started the topic as favourite military aircraft.....so seeing as we're going to include bombers here are a couple of my favourite ones even if they were both designed and flow in the 1950s...

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