Fighter Jets both old and new - A picture thread...

That's straight out of starwars. Is that really a fighter?

It is! It's the P-61 Black Widow which I was looking for a good picture of :)

What a perfect name. Have a good day all!

http://www.ricsartshop.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/Black%20Widow%20P-61_053.jpg

Gotta rep Candialand here - our greatest (and possibly ONLY) contribution to the world of airborne military hardware. I present, from the 1950s, through scandal and mystery (Dan Akroyd was in a film about it), the AVRO ARROW:

http://gateway.uvic.ca/schoolnet/digicol/gp-images/gpdetail/d83-188.1.4.19.jpg
http://www.robertvanderhorst.com/artwork_images/The%20AVRO%20Arrow.jpg
http://www.wingweb.co.uk/img/aircraft/Avrow_arrow_rollout_top.jpg

yeeeeeah!

Looks nice man! Very like the Dassault Mirage. Was there some kind of tidal shift that said "Hey, let's make 'em all look like paper aeroplanes!"

http://www.histoiredumonde.net/images/20_eme_siecle/avions/mirage3/intro.jpg

This thread rules!

How bout some avro vulcan? http://quicklink.all.googlepages.com/avro_vulcan_04_04.jpg

goose, you are gone but not forgotten...
http://www.conservativethinking.com/files/f-14.jpg
f14 tomcat

-- Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre

Okay, best user name in a LONG while.

http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/mig21.jpg

Mig-21. Still my favourite.

As long as we're thinking in Russian:
Mig-31 FIREFOX!
http://www.brain-tuning.de/images/firefox1.jpg

That's from Gundam, dude.

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you guys might like Jets'n'Guns

ha i'm gonna de-lurk for this one...

ACHTUNG!

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/YankeeAirMuseum2006/Highlights/SpitfireCloseup.jpg

http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/935206089-00.jpg

http://www.przygodoskop.pl/024/inne/adventurer02.jpg

http://www.oldtimerfan.nl/wp-content/galerij/gloster/meteor-f8/024dbdaabdb020423cccc415f716ee20_n.jpg

if this were an animal it'd be in a specimen jar on some victorian amateur scientist's shelf...

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/NorthAmerican/Aero37G7.jpg

http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/~mohamadi/dasilvaweb/A10.jpg
A-10

xpost-What is that? A De Havallend or sommat? Time to step it up with this bad boy:

http://robocat.users.btopenworld.com/Images/f117a.jpg

http://robocat.users.btopenworld.com/Images/f117a.jpg

xpost x2 even.

it's a canberra mr aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

this isn't:

http://www.spyflight.co.uk/images/jpgs/buccaneer/buccs%20in%20echelon.jpg

naw mine was a meteor. canberra is big plane.

The thread title specified jets, but screw that...

Sopwith Camel

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/images/sopwith_camel_original_500.jpg

Fokker Triplane

http://www.airtoair.net/store/cw2/Assets/product_full/10sport-fokkera.jpg

Fokker D.VII

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/WWI_Combat/AP4G6.jpg

So many choices for WWII (personal faves - the P-47, F6F Hellcat, and the Mark V. Spitfire) but this may be the overall best:

The Mitsubishi Zero

http://www.orgsites.com/ca/cafsocalphoto/zero.jpg

Northrop XP-79

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/P79-1.jpg

Fighter version of the Flying Wing. Wasn't designed with any armaments, but with a magnesium leading edge. The idea was to ram through the tail section of your opponent with the fortified wing.

So much of my childhood was devoted to fighter plane lust. I love the A-10. Hands down my favorite airplane ever. I was also big into WWII ones, but never really liked the early US / Soviet cold war planes - all those 50's and 60's jets never really did it for me.

Other favorites:

P-38 Lighting:
http://www.kelleycows.com/images/p38.jpg

Messerschmitt ME 109:
http://www.zap16.com/images/ME_109.jpg

B-25 Mitchell:
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis2005/Highlights/NellisB25From2oClock.jpg

And not a plane, but the most awesome helicopter ever = The Mi-24 Hind:

Oops

http://www.isra.org/drawing_a_bead/mi24-hind-helicopter.jpg

F-100

http://home.worldonline.nl/~hsc/F100/F-100%20ThB.jpg

I believe this was the first operational supersonic fighter.

P-26. One of the only fighters built by Boeing.

http://www.air-and-space.com/19780903%20Chino/31%20P-26A%20N3378G%20left%20front%20l.jpg

These fockes were Messerschmitts! </stan boardman>

Messerschmitt Bf 109
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/BF109BLACK6.jpg

(bah xpost, duplicate Messerschmitt)

Northrop built some wacky stuff. Here's the XP-56

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Northrop_XP-56_238353.jpg

These Fockes aren't Messerschmitts!

Focke-Wulf Fw 190
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Fw_190As_in_flight.jpg

high-altitude phallic symbol

http://www.espionageinfo.com/images/eeis_03_img0989.jpg

http://lynchmob.freeyellow.com/02-john-h-p-51.jpg

p-51 mustang

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s-3b/images/S3Viking_1.jpg

S-3 Viking, AKA the plane Dubya got to play soldier on. Mission accomplished, indeed.

F7F Tigercat

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/F7F-3P_Tigercat.jpg/250px-F7F-3P_Tigercat.jpg

F8F. About as badass as you can get.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/F8F1boxeroversf.jpg

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-189588-1165803100.jpeg

f-111

skua

http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/pictures/jpg/blackburn%20b24%20skua%20I.jpg

XB-70. Everything else can fuck off.

http://www.kheichhorn.de/assets/images/north_American_XB70_Valkyrie.jpg

P-40 with the Flying Tigers

http://www.walnutridge-aaf.com/P40a.jpg

scratch one Italian battleship

http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/media/July-2.jpg

Oh man, I spent countless hours as a kid reading about military aircraft. Here's Romania's lone WWII fighter, the IAR-80:

http://www.casusbelli.com.ar/aire/2gm/otrasnaciones/IAR_80.jpg

ripped from today's headlines

http://www.jetfly.hu/rovatok/repules/katonai/hirek/topten_bombers_070518/Tu95_V.jpg

The incredibly ungainly-looking Saab Tunnan:
http://avions.legendaires.free.fr/Images/Gj29.jpg

Messerschmitt Me-163. Scary scary scary. Five minutes of rocket fuel and a 50% chance of exploding on you.

http://www.kheichhorn.de/assets/images/me163b-1a_takeoff.jpg

I see your Bear, and raise you one Peacemaker

http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/b-36_1.jpg

(always a favorite of mine, due to stories about them from my grandpa)

the f22 is so good that the f35 just looks like a malformed pygmy
pak-fa rly nice too, although more classicist with hints of the b2 and various 4th gen aircraft
nothing beyond aesthetic considerations naturally

First person view of everything required to fly the P-51
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-amazing-first-person-view-shows-every-move-it-take-1698638721

Neither fighters nor jets but I was out walking yesterday and a B-17, a B-25, and a C-47 all flew overhead.

Were you somewhere in... the past ??
I may have said it already but the opening picture of this threas is great.
I've always found the F4 so cool and massive.
As for the Mig21, I remember a few years ago at Hanoi international airport : parked on the side they still had Mig21s !
Surely they're not in service anymore but then why were they in their individual hangars and seemingly operational...

I live not far from what was a huge bomber plant in WWII (where apparently none of these were actually produced) and it was VJ Day so I’m guessing the historical plane nerds got together for a ride.

They were LOUD in a way I’m not used to hearing

Really ? not louder than modern jets, surely ?
I've always wondered how loud/impressive those WWII bomber operations including hundreds of planes must have been...

I literally can't imagine what this must have looked/sounded like !

"On the morning of March 18, 1,329 bombers and 733 fighters of the US Eighth Air Force formed up over England and set a course for northern Germany. The target for 1,221 of the bombers was Berlin. This mission, the largest wartime raid on Berlin, was intended to support the Russian advance by attacking rail stations and tank factories in the city."

I have friends who live close to the Minneapolis airport and definitely not as loud as jets right overhead.

But they were flying kind of low and I don’t know if I’ve ever heard a prop plane with more than one engine before - they were sort of buzzing in and out of tune with each other so very droney

Speaking of F4s, due to the situation between Greece and Turkey , I've learned that the Greek AF still has around 30 F4s in service !

As for the sound of modern jets, since my parents live near the Bourget airport, near Paris, where there's an international air show every two years, I'm quite used to see/hear them fly over and they're noisy af !

TOMBOT to thread, kinda curious about his take on the f-35 debacle, where the money went, and if it's a good plane

I don't have a lot of good insight into how the F-35 went so wrong, other than collusion between parts of the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin to force the DoD to put all its eggs in one basket.

Here's a decent piece on what might ought to happen to avoid repeating those mistakes in the future: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-air-force-could-avoid-f-35-trap-47737

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35947/navy-f-a-18-squadron-commanders-take-on-ai-repeatedly-beating-real-pilot-in-dogfight

Fun read.