"Your top 5 Jet Age aircraft!! " Topic

I just picked up Check your 6 Jet Age and I have jets on the brain so what are your 5 favorites?

Mine F-104 Starfighter (the coolest name?)

Mig-21 Fishbed

B-36 Hustler (maybe I have a thing for delta wings)

The A-10 Thunderbolt II (warthog)

F-16 Fighting Falcon (viper)

English Electric Lightning
Harrier Jump Jet
Meteor
Phantom
Sabre Jet

Does this give my age away ?

Don't have a top five but I will give you four.

F-86 Sabre
F-4 Phantom
F-16 Falcon
A-10 Warthog

F-15 Eagle
A-10 Thunderbolt II
F-4 Phantom
A-6 Intruder
GR-4 Tornado

Hawker Hunter
Vulcan
Vampire
Canberra
Me262

Mig-25 Foxbat

- symbol of the Cold War, re-defined how you designed your fighters

MacDonald-Douglas F-4 Phantom

- tough, durable and a great all-around platform

A-10 Warthog

- so, so tough – so ugly – what a great plane for chewing ground-pounders to bits

F-86 Sabre

- got the US and NATO back in the game; great plane

Hawker Harrier

- who could not love a jump jet?

F-105 Thunderchief
F-16 Falcon
F-86 Sabre
A-6 Intruder
B-47 Stratojet

Hawker Harrier
Avro Vulcan
A10 Warthog
B52
F15 Eagle

1) F-86 Sabre
2) F9F Panther
3) MiG 17
4) Mirage III
5) A4 Skyhawk

1) F7U Cutlass

2) De Havilland Sea Vixen

3) F-101 Voodoo

4) Supermarine Scimitar

5) F-89 Scorpion

I can't get my pretty pictures to work!

F-100 Super Saber--just looks cool

F8-Crusader, last of the gunfighters

Sea Vixen in its navy blue-gray was just an elegant lookingplane

F-14 Tomcat was peerless

MiG-21 and all its variants.

Lightning
Vulcan
Phantom
Harrier
F-18

All the best,

John.

Boeing X-32
A-10 Thunderbolt II
F-20 Tigershark
YF-23 Black Widow II
F-15 Eagle

A-10 Warthog ---After watching one at a air show they scared the hell out of me
f-104 G --G for germany
harrier vtol
f15 eagle

Panther, Hustler, F-4, Warthog,SR-71

Cutlass
Hustler
MiG-21
Bear
Draken
-Kle.

B-2 Spirit,
F-4 Phantom,
A-10 Warthog,
SR-71 Blackbird,
F-15 Eagle

F-14
F-86
F-105
A-6
A-10

F105--handled 3/4 of the bombing of North Vietnam
F4--handled the rest as well as many MiGs
F86--a 14 to 1 kill ratio
A10--impressive to watch a B25 size bird work that aerobaticthat close to the ground
B52--exceedingly awesome!

Mig15-Doesn't deserve its NATO codename
F85 Goblin-designed by goblins for goblins
F20 Tigershark-Used this in a Airpower game, loved it!
F7U Cutlass-only works in the Battletech universe
B49-all jet Flying Wing

F-104
Avro Vulcan
MiG-21
J35 Draken
F-14

F-15: The Man!
Vulcan: love the pulp SF look
Jaguar: is there a prettier jet?
MiG-19: if the Soviets had worked out the kinks in this fighter, it could have been the ultimate gunslinger
F-16: when I hear the word "dogfight", the viper is what first comes to mind.

Hoser

XB70 Valkyrie
Convair Hustler
The British V Bombers

I suppose the F-22 hasn't made anyone's list because it is so much newer? Really, it can take on 6 or more F-15s and come out winning. Truly a major game changer that other countries will have to catch up to.

F-16 is an amazing plane and still relevant.

F-15 is still relevant and for many years has been so. Quite versatile.

If we go backwards in time more, I would have to agree that the F-100 was a major game changer.

The SR-71 still gives me chills on sheer performance.

Can't comment on the Soviet aircraft other than the ones that gave us fits. But they didn't sustain as we developed planes that outclassed every one of the Soviet planes.

The F-4 performed its function very well. But it was effectionately known as the flying brick. Not the plane to take in a maneuver dogfight but I suppose its missile armament and ruggedness made up for its lack of maneuverability.

Ah, how could I forget the F-86. Before my time but man what a plane!

The A-10 as an air to ground and support vehicle has very few peers. If you are on the wrong side of one of these babies, you won't live to tell about it.

B52 – Longevity
A4 – Far exceeded all expectations.
Harrier – Only practical VTOL jet ever IMHO
F16 – Super pipsqueak fighter
A10 – Best at what it was designed to do.
My favorite fighter – the F14, I loved to watch them fly, they looked like they were alive.

ME-262
F-14 Tomcat
F-86 Sabre
XB-70 Valkyrie
F-15

Me 262
Ar 234
He 162
Meteor
Vampire

WWII on the brain

Fs 4 and 14
A6
Mig 25
F111

Never cared for jets. They always hurt my ears when they flew over.

In no particular order:

F-16 Fighting Falcon
F-14 Tomcat
F-86 Sabre
MiG-17 "Fresco"
Hawker Siddeley/BAE/McDonnell Douglas Harrier

F-22.
That's about it.

Lightning
Buccaneer
Harrier
Vulcan
Hunter

English Electric Lightning (brute thrust and utilitarian beauty in one package)
Harrier Jump Jet (the ingenious solution)
F-86 Sabre (just so iconic)
Mig 15 (sorry, you just can't have the Sabre without the mig)
Mig 21 Fishbed (looks like its going at lightspeed just sitting on the tarmac)

F-4 Phantom II (protoype flew in 1958; F-4s are still in service today)

F-5 Freedom Fighter (prototype flew in 1959; F-5s are still flying today)

A-5 Vigilante (gotta love a bomber designed to shoot a nuke out of its butt.)

F-101 Voodoo (designed to carry, among other things, the MB-1 Genie unguided nuclear air-to-air rocket – now there's a concept!)

SU-47 Berkut (I don't know if it's any good but it has to be the meanest-looking thing in the air)

LT

F-14 Tomcat
A-10 Warthog
F-15 Eagle
F-18 Hornet
F-16 Falcon