The most beautiful jet fighter ever made
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Always loved the classic canard/delta wing Dassault Rafale - despite the fact it's french :>
or without armaments
or without armaments
I work at TUL, see F-16’s day and night from the N’Guard base across the runway - Meh. We see F-5’s from The Sun Downers and other commands on occasion - totally makes my day. On very rare occasions I’ve see a couple of F-15’s, I don’t know if they stop by to remind the Viper drivers what real aircraft look & sound like or maybe they’re just slumming. I do seriously miss the Tomcat D, big & bad, able to loiter for 3-4 hrs with one engine shut down and those wings out loaded with 8 Phoenix missiles.
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Always remember... the USA would be British... if not for the help of the French. Viva La France.
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And the French would be speaking German if not for the USA so turnabouts fair play, but yeah the French people are great people.
How about an Avro Vulcan?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil..._-_Last_Flight_over_Farnborough_(cropped).jpg
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Mine are better
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The Rafale is not a bad fighter, it's just that it really brings nothing new. It's not stealth, it doesn't really have the datalink that the F-22 or F-35.
I'm not a fighter guy, I know we have a few here. I hope they will chime in. The Rafale is not really better than the F-15/F-16/F-18.
I'm not a fighter guy, I know we have a few here. I hope they will chime in. The Rafale is not really better than the F-15/F-16/F-18.
Patisserie.
i'm still hooked on the Blue Angels planes
I have a connection to it being a former McDonnell Douglas employee.
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After the F104, I am partial to the Saab Draken
I think this might be a redundant post from me, but I gave up looking after several pages.
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i'm still hooked on the Blue Angels planes
As a navy aviation maintainer, I can say with assurance that underneath all that fancy paint are jets that are barely one step away from the scrap heap. The Blues get non-tactically capable aircraft to use up and throw away. When they get them, they only fulfil the the big three requirements (they'll Aviate, they'll Navigate, and they'll Communicate), but they won't do much else!
Didn't they just switch over to the Super Hornet in the last couple of years?
I think I might have posted this three or so times in this thread (the older bit), but here it is again (at least I'm consistent):
Vought F-8U Crusader. It's been one of my favorites since I was a pup...
Vought F-8U Crusader. It's been one of my favorites since I was a pup...
Sorry, one more... It just looks so cool in this paint scheme! 
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My grandparents worked at Convair/General Dynamics so I always had a soft spot for their jets.
F-102:
F-106:
F-111:
F-16:
Then again, Convair was a strong contender for the “Producer of the ugliest-looking rejects” award.
ZXF-81:
XF-92:
F2Y (later F-7):
F-102:
F-106:
F-111:
F-16:
Then again, Convair was a strong contender for the “Producer of the ugliest-looking rejects” award.
ZXF-81:
XF-92:
F2Y (later F-7):
F-111:
Love a good Aardvark pic.
Of note: "When they went to dismantle the fleet of Aardvarks, they encountered a dangerous, potentially deadly hazard in the materials used to build the airframe. The fuselage of the Aardvark was built out of bonded panels, and the adhesive used to bond those panels contained asbestos." *
The RAAF buried the decommissioned airframes for that very reason.
*https://www.wearethemighty.com/migh...-of-its-old-f-111-aardvark-tactical-aircraft/
I would have said the F-111 was one of my favorite planes. But I don't think of it as a fighter. The only time I saw Sidewinders on them was when they went to Saudi for Gulf War 1. The 111 was one of the fastest aircraft we had. In the first Gulf War, other than the F-117, it was the only aircraft we had capable of dropping LGB's IIRC. A lot of the F-117 pilots were former F-111 guys. The Tornado's used the laser designator of the Buccaneer, a British Naval strike aircraft. We have a VHS tape with most of the F-111 drops in Iraq that was prepared for Dick Chaney. With sound it was classified. We have one without audio.
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