Which aircraft will live in history forever?

"Darrell A. Larose" wrote in message
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Scott Ferrin ) writes:

The Hurricane played a big role in the Battle of Britain, and got little
of the glory. The Tempest was a mud mover used in ground attack, it was
the A-10 of WWII. Came after the BoB in about 1944 TOS.


No that was the Typhoon.

The Tempest was its sibling but was mainly used to shoot
down the V1's as it was about the fastest of the piston engined
fighter aircraft and was replaced in RAF service by Vampire
and Maeteor jets.

Keith

I will stick to the famous jets;

X-1 first airplane that broke the sound barrier in level flight);
MiG15 & F-86 (Korea)
Mig-19 (first operational supersonic fighter in the world)
A-12/SR-71 (first operational mach-3 airplane)
MiG-21 (fought almost every war after Korea, over 10,000 built and still in
production in China)
F-4 Phantom II (legend of its own, too many reasons to explain)
EE Lightning (sky dragster! 8-)
F-14 Tomcat (first of 'teen' series, a plane with a character)

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Nele

NULLA ROSA SINE SPINA

DeHavilland Comet (the first jet airliner, marking a new era in
civilian transport)

Carried too few passengers at too high a cost. It was the Concorde of
its day, without the longevity. A conceptual dead end.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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I couldn't remember if the
Battle of Britain fighter was the Spitfire or Tempest :-)

It was the Hurricane, mostly.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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As for rotaty-wings, my vote goes to the UH-1 Huey, for defining
the the role of the helicopter in modern combat and rescue, and
for beeing perhaps the most famous helicopter of all times.

Yes, definitely the Huey. I spent as many Huey hours helicopter skiing
in Canada as I did hitchhiking around Vietnam, but it is the heat and
the rain forest that give me a flash when I hear the whump-whump of
those Huey rotors overhead.

Speaking of longevity -- surely an important factor in living in
history -- the army has just ordered a new iteration of the Huey. Or
so I recall from a recent Aero-News email.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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Except for the fact that the X-1 was NOT the first manned aircraft to
break the sound barrier, it was the F-86 that broke the sound barrier
first. One of the great myths in aviation lore is that the X-1 was first.

Oh God. Here we go again.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Cub Driver" wrote:
| DeHavilland Comet (the first jet airliner, marking a new era in
| civilian transport)
|
| Carried too few passengers at too high a cost. It was the Concorde of
| its day, without the longevity. A conceptual dead end.

"longevity"
The RAF's HS.801 Nimrod was a Comet 4C conversion.

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Which ones?

Wright Flyer hands down.


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"Darrell A. Larose" wrote in message
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ArtKramr ) writes:
Which ones?

Wright Flyer

Agreed

Douglas DC-3 opened air travel for many

Yes

Boeing 707 First practical Jetliner

The Comet should get that despite it's initial problems.

Boeing B-52 seems like it'll fly forever

Skipping the Mustang and Spitfire?

Lockheed C-130 Hercules 49 years old still in production

So is the FW-190 and ME-262 if you push the technicalities.........

Piper Cub opened general aviation for many

Yup.


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"Darrell A. Larose" wrote in message
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ArtKramr ) writes:
Which ones?

Wright Flyer

Agreed

Douglas DC-3 opened air travel for many

Yes

Boeing 707 First practical Jetliner

The Comet should get that despite it's initial problems.

Boeing B-52 seems like it'll fly forever

Skipping the Mustang and Spitfire?

Lockheed C-130 Hercules 49 years old still in production

So is the FW-190 and ME-262 if you push the technicalities.........

Piper Cub opened general aviation for many

So did the Tiger Moth and Taylorcraft Auster, over here.

Mike
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M.J.Powell