What's your favourite jet fighter
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Attleborough, Norfolk
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.
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.
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.
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 
Perhaps I'm a little biased though as I was born in Linköping, the hometown of the SAAB aircraft factory !
love all, the above jets , especially the Saab Viggen.......superb photos 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 :cpilot:buzyg said:The vampire wins for me.
I used to walk past one, parked in some blokes garden, on my way home from junior school. 8)
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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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For me, it's gotta be the F111, when it came out it looked so damn futuristic.
Well I don't like any of them (except the lovely Diane) as all of the modern ones keep 'practicing' their flying skills directly over my house and they are fecking noisy and annoying.
I live about 8 miles from the mouth of the 'Wash', where there is feck all for miles. So why do the jets insist on doing their 'manouevres' directly over the town? If it is to make us feel safe, then it ain't working. When the feckers climb vertically with their afterburners on, it rattles my windows and I can't hear the telly, or anything else. This is almost an everyday occurrence (except if the weather's bad). It was interesting for the first few days, soon gets old TBH. And the vast majority are yanks which is even more annoying!
Let's just hope the Russians of Chinese don't invade on a rainy day, eh? :roll:
I live about 8 miles from the mouth of the 'Wash', where there is feck all for miles. So why do the jets insist on doing their 'manouevres' directly over the town? If it is to make us feel safe, then it ain't working. When the feckers climb vertically with their afterburners on, it rattles my windows and I can't hear the telly, or anything else. This is almost an everyday occurrence (except if the weather's bad). It was interesting for the first few days, soon gets old TBH. And the vast majority are yanks which is even more annoying!
Let's just hope the Russians of Chinese don't invade on a rainy day, eh? :roll: