This are the 10 commercial military aircraft i like the most
Number one is the An-124
Number 2 is the Lockheed L-1011 tristar
Number 3 is the Embraer 145 AWACS
Number 4 is An-71
Number 5 is Lockheed C-5
Number 6 is C-141
Number 7 is the C-17
Number 8 is the A-50
Number eight is the Boeing 757
number 9 is the ASTOR
Number 10 is the VC-10 tanker
Yep. Accentuate the negative!
It happens sometimes ugliness and power combined result in a weird beauty.
In the 1990s we saw the tendency towards stealth and more canards
From that decade i like mostly only the Eurofighter, F-18E/F, Su-33KUB, Su-34 and F-22, however there were more aircraft flown, i will tell you what aircraft i feel were the 10 most beautiful aircraft in the 1990s
Number one is the F-22 that first flew in 1997
number 2 is the Eurofighter that first flew in 1994
Number three is the F-18E that had its first flight in 1995
Number four is the Su-32/34 that first flew in 1990
Number five is the F-23 that first flew in 1990
Number six is the S-37 Berkut
Number seven is the J-10
Number eight is the X-31
Number nine is the F-2
number 10 is the Su-33KUB
I do agree that SAAB has great aircraft, i am also a fan of swedish aviation, i might not like a lot the JAS-39 but still i think it is a nice looking design, the other SAAB aircraft are okay i feel they are nice looking too.
In Helicopters for example i do like a lot Italian and French helos, Russian helicopters i feel are not as nice looking they might be functional or record holders but few have the delicacy of such designs as the Dauphin, except the Ka-60, few have the beauty of the Augusta A129; the Mi-8 and Ka-32 look more like trucks than delicate flying machines.
The Americans have some nice looking helicopters too but nothing i would call special except the RH-66 Comache.
Here are the Helicopters i like the most
First i will tell you my 10 favorite gunship helicopters
Number one is the A-129 International
Number 2 is the Ka-50
number 3 would be the RH-66
number 4 would be the AH-64
Number five is the Z-10
number six is the Eurocopter Tiger
Number 7 is the AH-1 Cobra
number eight is the Mi-28
number nine is the Ah-56 Cheyenne
and 10 is the OH-1 Ninja
Well, you’re right MiG-23. That’s why i just posted what i thought were beautiful aircraft. And if you noticed the trend, i like the tailless delta design over all others. It just leaves a lot less clutter (and by ‘clutter’ i mean less surfaces, namely the horizontal tailplane). ANY delta usually wins out over other more common shapes to me. It leaves lines a lot more cleaner, which is what i find more attractive. These new generations of canrded deltas don’t cut it for me either. Typhoon is rather ungainly, having an ugly box for an intake slung underneath a deeeeeep forward fuselage and these teeny tiny canards that almost look as if they would serve no purpose. Rafale looks nice, but i liked the prototype better. Gripen is fairly attractive, until it is seen from the front (it’s not the dihedraled canards, it’s again the boxy looking intakes that lose it for me – they should’ve been softer).
And it’s not like i don’t like a bunch of others listed here. Just that i don’t like them as much as the ones i mentioned for the reasons i stated above. I mean, i find the Tu-160 and B-1B attractive – but they’re of a blended body design which i find appealing. A few of the rest you listed (the BUFF, the B-47, the Tu-16) are like taking two sticks and putting them together. That’s not what i find attractive.
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I also like canarded and delta aircraft up to a point, delta wing tailess designs are sometimes quit beautiful the LCA and the Mirage 2000 but i prefer the MIrage 4000 and Rafale over the tailess delta, once i read that aircraft design is a science but also an art, an art because even despite that physical principals and enginering solution are overwhelmingly ruling an aircraft design up to a point it has an artistic input, because you can get several similar solution for one specific problem.
In the 1980s the canard delta configuration became popular, and canards became a fashion that later up to a degree thrust vectoring made it superflous.
In the 1980s the most beautiful aircraft that first flew to my point of view was the Rafale
I guess this has been on of the most beautiful designs ever flown, its first flight occurred on July 4 1986, in Europe canard delta designs have been quit studied. The next in the list is and number 2 as the most beautiful aircraft flown in the 1980s to my taste was the IAI Lavi
It is a fact that as aircraft design became more sophisticated less combat aircraft prgrams were carried out, in the 1950s and even sixties there were more aircraft projects going on, but as aircraft became more complex fewer and fewer programs were financed and even fewer came to fruition as operational aircraft, two of the most beautiful aircraft were cancelled, the IAI Lavi and the Mirage 4000, even the US cancelled the F-20.
number three i would say is the AMX first flown in 1984
number fourth is the JAS-39 first flown in 1988
In the 1980s more Asian designs came to bear fruit among them the exquisitely beautiful Ching Kuo, i feel this is fifth most beautiful aircraft from the 1980s.
in the 1980s aother Asian aircraft was flown, this was in the form of a trainer, it was the T-4 first flown in 1985, i think this is the six most beautiful combat aircraft flown in the 1980s
the seven is another Asian design it is the J-8II first flown in 1984
number eight is IA-63 first flown in 1984
number nine is the F-20 first flown in 1982
and number 10 is the X-29 first flown in 1984
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