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From: kastin@aecom.UUCP (Steven Kastin)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Re: Most beautiful aircraft
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Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 13:18:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 23 13:18:13 1985
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> >So, while on the subject of beautiful aircraft, what are the net nominations
> >for "most beautiful aircraft"?
> >
> 
> My votes for 'Mostest Niftyest and Beautiful Airplanes'...
> 
> WWII Hardware:
> 		Gotta be the Spitfire!
> 
> WWI Hardware:
> 		Nieuport (I hope I spelled it right!)
> 		...and almost anything else French!
> 
> Current Military:
> 
> 		Who Cares?
> 
> Commercial:
> 		Boeing 747
> 		(Sorry, the Clunkord doesn't look enough like an airplane!)
> 
> Airplanes That A Guy Like Me Could Own:
> 
> 		Falco	(Italian designed kit aircraft)
> 		Christen Eagle (Biplane)
> 
> Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep Award:
> 
> 		DC-3 or Grummond Goose
> 
> 	

 WHAT???  What do you mean "Who Cares?" for the 'current military'

   category?  These are among the most beautiful aircraft flying!

 EVER HEAR OF THE SR-71 BLACKBIRD?  It is easily the most beautiful

 thing ever to fly (and that includes birds!)  F-16's aren't bad

 either.  Military jet fighters have always been designed to be

 sleek, and more often than not, excite the imagination (as well

 as the enemy.)


					 Steve Kastin,
					 AECOM Aerospace Medicine Soceity