While we all wait for show season 2022, I wondered what people think are the meanest and friendliest looking aircraft they can think of.
I will start;
Meanest - B1
Friendliest - Super Guppy
What do we all think?
A silly thread for the off season
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Meanest:
Rotary - Apache
Fixed Wing - A10
Friendliest:
This little chap:
20170604 (2)_Unknown_Smiley_Aeroplane by John Dixon, on Flickr
Rotary - Apache
Fixed Wing - A10
Friendliest:
This little chap:
20170604 (2)_Unknown_Smiley_Aeroplane by John Dixon, on Flickr
Re: A silly thread for the off season
Awe he's cute! Lol.
Re: A silly thread for the off season
Helicopters:
Meanest: a Mi-24/35
Friendliest: a Whirlwind
Fixed wing:
Meanest: depends on various configurations and stuff, but with its undercarriage as it is, I always found taxiing Jaguars (with air brakes out etc) sort of predatory - like an insect waiting on some unwitting prey.
Friendliest: that parachute door at the back of a Phantom, or maybe an F-16 with that big buck-tooth grin of an intake.
Meanest: a Mi-24/35
Friendliest: a Whirlwind
Fixed wing:
Meanest: depends on various configurations and stuff, but with its undercarriage as it is, I always found taxiing Jaguars (with air brakes out etc) sort of predatory - like an insect waiting on some unwitting prey.
Friendliest: that parachute door at the back of a Phantom, or maybe an F-16 with that big buck-tooth grin of an intake.
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Re: A silly thread for the off season
It's an aircraft I have a lot of affection for as one of my grandfathers worked on the production line at Shorts, but I always thought the Sunderland had a real mean look to it. A big bruiser of an aircraft.
Re: A silly thread for the off season
Meanest-- Rotary- Mil Mi-24 Hind
Meanest -- Fixed---------Tornado GR4 ,just looks like it means business
Meanest -- Fixed---------Tornado GR4 ,just looks like it means business
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Don't know about those jets ,they spoil a very nice place
Re: A silly thread for the off season
Friendly - Saab 340B
Mean Rotary - Mi-24
Mean Fixed - it must be Il-102 (not my photo)
Mean Rotary - Mi-24
Mean Fixed - it must be Il-102 (not my photo)
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I think I want to change my fixed wing mean-looking aircraft, on reflection the maximum unsubtlety, brutishness and aggression must belong to the Hawker Typhoon?
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Meanest fixed wing: A dirty, fully loaded, shark tooth painted Tornado /Smokey B-52.
Rotary: MH-53. Has a proper heavy school boy bully look to it. Or the Mi-38
Friendliest: Boeing X-32
Rotary: MH-53. Has a proper heavy school boy bully look to it. Or the Mi-38
Friendliest: Boeing X-32
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Mean:
Friendly:
Friendly:
And as the smart ship grew,
In stature, grace and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the iceberg too....
In stature, grace and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the iceberg too....