Is anyone else on here a fan of military helicopters and planes? Which ones are your favorites? My favorite helicopters are:

Kamov Ka-52 Alligator
Hughes AH-64D Apache Longbow
Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche
Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk
Sikorsky MH-53J Pave Low III

Planes:

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Boeing B-29/B-50 Superfortress (especially after Fallout: New Vegas)
North American P-51 Mustang
Northrop B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
British Aerospace Harrier GR.7
Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II A.K.A. "Warthog"
Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

How do you double post a friggin' topic of all things?! Were you just hitting 'post' like a spasming monkey?

Anyhow. Yes, I adore the Thunderbolt. Titanium bathtub go!

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
How do you double post a friggin' topic of all things?! Were you just hitting 'post' like a spasming monkey?

Anyhow. Yes, I adore the Thunderbolt. Titanium bathtub go!

I tried to fix it. Damn! >.< Yaaaay! A-10 <3

JoeX said:
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Just these. I'm not really an enthusiast, but I like these. I made (with a lot of lack of skill) a model of the SR-71

A-10 warthog, no contest.

Princess_Celestia said:
A-10 warthog, no contest.

Aww, yeah. I knew someone else out there loved the A-10, other than EB up there. :)

I enjoyed flying the BF-109 Messerschmitt in Il-2. Too bad it's real life counterpart has problems with take-offs and landings. For more modern military planes i'd say either the A-10 or the F-22. I don't know a lot about choppers, except that they are way cool.

Weird topic, but what the hay.

- Anything WW1, particularly the usual Sopwith and Fokker suspects. For the Biggles thing, and because that's when tactics were being made, and because it's a bloody wonder the things stayed together in flight.

- Crazy-arse huge Russian ground effect prototypes on the Caspian sea.

- The Bell H-13 / 47G for M*A*S*H reasons, because it sounds like what a chopper should sound like, and because it did well as a civvy helicopter.

Anomynous said:
Weird topic, but what the hay.

- Anything WW1, particularly the usual Sopwith and Fokker suspects. For the Biggles thing, and because that's when tactics were being made, and because it's a bloody wonder the things stayed together in flight.

- Crazy-arse huge Russian ground effect prototypes on the Caspian sea.

- The Bell H-13 / 47G for M*A*S*H reasons, because it sounds like what a chopper should sound like, and because it did well as a civvy helicopter.

Ah yes, the Bell H-47 Sioux. A great helicopter for a simpler time. Thanks for posting.

Hughes OH-6. For being less armored than the people riding in it.

Lockheed P-38J. Because it was a crazy idea that actually worked out very well.

Oh, the Lightning. Lovely design; 1942 was a fun little game.

Forgot to mention the de Havilland Mosquito in my list. For the sheer variety of random crap they managed to shove into the thing over the years, being made out of balsa and plywood, and famously annoying Göring.

I've always been a Starscream fan. :P

Okay, in all seriousness: The Lightning and the Fokker Dr.I are my favorites.

Whatever the ones in post #41929 are.

More seriously, the Blackbird is an amazing feat of technology, and it just looks incredibly cool.
The A-10 ("Warthog") is badass. Amazingly tough, and it will fuck up just about any ground target.
I'm also fond of the AC-130 (you got your artillery in my air support!).

Snowy said:
Whatever the ones in post #41929 are.

More seriously, the Blackbird is an amazing feat of technology, and it just looks incredibly cool.
The A-10 ("Warthog") is badass. Amazingly tough, and it will fuck up just about any ground target.
I'm also fond of the AC-130 (you got your artillery in my air support!).

Those are MiG-29 "Fulcrums." You have an excellent taste in military aircraft, my friend. ;)

Quick response:
Rotory wing: mi24d in polish livery.
Agusta aw139
Eurocopter bo105
Bell uh1y Venom
Aerospitale Alouette iii
[Best looking Helo of all time: Eurocopter EC135]

Fixed wing: C130 (all variants)
c5 Galaxy (Mesmorized by the sound)
Lockheed S3 Viking
Grumman e2 Hawkeye
Boeing ac47 Spooky
Casa CN235/295
[Best looking plane of all time: Dornier 328]

Bell AH-1z. It's so damn slender and I love its forward profile.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/-YPT4MwrB0nw/SksP4aWleCI/AAAAAAAATXg/RcyJmGHcvXU/ah-1z.jpg

I'm in agreeance with most of these aircraft, but one that hasn't been listed that could have changed an entire war is the German ME-262 jet fighter. I have huge respect for the German military during WWII for their technological advancements. :)

xb-70 valkyrie

My fave has always been the F-4 Phantom II. At one time, this used to be the workhorse of all branches of the military and was the aircraft with the highest production run. I'm not sure if that last is still the case, though.

*nods* to the A-10 and the SR-71 as well.

AVRO Vulcan

JoeX said:
Those are MiG-29 "Fulcrums." You have an excellent taste in military aircraft, my friend. ;)

Late to this party but, actually, the grey one is some version of the F-15 Eagle, and the blue one is what I believe to be an SU-27 Flanker, or something similar.

SSGNovel said:
Late to this party but, actually, the grey one is some version of the F-15 Eagle, and the blue one is what I believe to be an SU-27 Flanker, or something similar.

Holy shit that necro

SSGNovel said:
Late to this party

Bloody oath, ye are.

Hate to push a mega necropost, but I'm in ROTC and aiming to be a pilot myself.