Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataio.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!dbp From: dbp@dataio.UUCP (Dave Pellerin) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Re: Most beautiful aircraft Message-ID: <690@dataio.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 11:54:38 EDT Article-I.D.: dataio.690 Posted: Thu Jun 27 11:54:38 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:32:17 EDT Reply-To: dbp@dataio.UUCP (Dave Pellerin) Distribution: net Organization: The Boneless Chicken Farm Lines: 21 Keywords: Blood, Sweat, and Pistons > > EVER HEAR OF THE SR-71 BLACKBIRD? It is easily the most beautiful > > thing ever to fly (and that includes birds!) ..... > > Steve Kastin, > AECOM Aerospace Medicine Soceity Oh, come on - the SR-71 doesn't look like an airplane, it looks like an oil soaked dead duck that just washed up on the beach!! I afraid I'm just a sucker for the bone-jarring sound (feel) of a big radial engine, the broad-shouldered look of a WW2 fighter, the way a real elevator (in the back, thank you!) feels during a full stall... Modern day mega-death aircraft just don't excite me in the same way. Dave Pellerin ...uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!dbp