shoelessjoe
Familiar Face
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Lucky Strike said:Obvious choices are often so for a reason.
The Spitfire gets my vote. No contest.
... and arguably, the handsomest plane ... ever.
Lucky Strike said:Obvious choices are often so for a reason.
The Spitfire gets my vote. No contest.
Fletch said:You gotta love an aircraft whose fuel could (and sometimes did) dissolve its own pilot alive.
Mike in Seattle said:What's the old line - any landing you walk away from is a good landing?
Curt Dawson said:Mine is the Gruman Albatross.I first saw one when my Dad was working for IBM.He was in charge of testing all the on board computers in the lunar module at Gruman's plant in Beth Page Long Island.And brought home a brochure of their aircraft.Well I just fell in love with the homely looking old girl.And to this day whenever I see a picture of on or the rare time I see on in the flesh my heart beats a little faster and a subtle smile crosses my face.
Decodence said:I probably love it so much because it reminds me of Norman Geddes flying wing/boat the "Airliner number 4"
Maybe a model... the Bel Geddes/Kuhler design was just too big, expensive and impractical for anyone to buy in, IIRC, kinda like the more recent Boeing "Super Clipper" concept using 747 fuselages as floats.Jerekson said:Did they seriously make one of these?