A silly thread for the off season

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UKTopgun
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A silly thread for the off season

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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?

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Meanest:

Rotary - Apache
Fixed Wing - A10

Friendliest:

This little chap:

Image20170604 (2)_Unknown_Smiley_Aeroplane by John Dixon, on Flickr

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Awe he's cute! Lol.

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Re: A silly thread for the off season

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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.

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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.

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Meanest-- Rotary- Mil Mi-24 Hind
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

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Friendly - Saab 340B
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Mean Rotary - Mi-24
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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

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Re: A silly thread for the off season

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Mean:

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Friendly:

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And as the smart ship grew,
In stature, grace and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the iceberg too....

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