"Favorite Jet Fighter of the 1950s" Topic

Do you have an opinion?

F-86, though the Hawker Hunter is a close second!

-Will

My personal favorite is the MiG-17. I know I know I should be shot as a traitor to baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet for that remark but has classic 1950's lines and styling as well as an impressive combat record.

I'd love to get a 1/48th scale model of it, paint the upper part of the body in a 50's shade of turquoise green or blue, lower part of the body an egg shell or similar white (both gloss) flat black on the isde of the wing fences and chrome to the outside and on the gun pods.

BAE Lightning.

F-86 and F9F Panther.

Hmm, lots of choices! How about the F-100 Super Sabre.

Damon.

I'm with Big Red: F-86 and F9F Panther.

Sea Vixen

Panther

ŇOh – Sea Vixen, nice.

F-102 Delta Dagger aka lawn dart.

F4D Skyray. Completely underrated aircraft with an insane rate of climb. Little-known because it never saw combat and didn't get glamor deployments. Like all deltas, it suffered almost no drag while turning if you kept your speed up, but became very dragged if you let your speed fall. Rewarded good training.

Probably the Panther but I am a sucker for "The Bridges of Toko Ri" and though very late 50's one cannot forget the F8 Crusader, last of the gunfighters.

Another vote for the Sea Vixen.

EE Lightning. Incredibly impressive plane. Rate of climb with afterburner was like a rocket taking off. Incredible speed and acceleration. Payload was small though, but at least it had guns.

Panther!

F-104 Starfighter…………Missile with a man in it !

Another vote for the Panther, though the F-86 is close behind.

Another vote for the F9 Panther. The very first model kit I ever built. 1960 – Cast in metallic dark blue with raised lines for the decals. I can still remember putting decals on in the bathroom sink.

Torn between a Hawker Hunter and an English Electric Lightning.

F-86 Sabre B

Ditto to Big Red above – F-86 and the F9F.

Avro Arrow

Can't beat the look or name of the Delta Dagger.

Lightning all the way. :-)

F-101 Voodoo, F-89 Scorpion a close second.

My previous post got truncated. Besides the Panther I have to put in a vote for the F8 Crusader the last of the gunfighters even though it was a very late 50s aircraft.

F86 for me, but there's a lot of sweet fighters of that period to choose from.

I don't consider the Lightning a 1950's fighter since it didn't go into service until literally 7 days before the end of the decade. Sure that technically makes it a 1950's fighter, but by the merest skin of its teeth. (It's a sweet fighter, though.)

Sabre jet, you bet.

Yet another vote for Sea Vixen

Toss up between the Cutlass and the Venom, Designed in the late 1940s, saw service in the 1950s.

Too many to choose from, and you can't make me!

I'll add F-89 Scorpion, F3H Demon, and Supermarine Scimitar to the list.

I would like to nominate the North American F4J Fury and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21.

Ron

Sabre for me as well.

Well said DC coltman…!

F-104 Star Fighter.

MiG-21bis

Lighting… Of course

Hmmmm, lots of good choices, like the F-8 Crusader, F-86, F-100, F-101, F-102, F-104, etc., etc.

If I could choose only one though, I guess it would have to be the nuke firing F-106, which squeaks in just under the wire, in 1959, when it was introduced.

Of course, for a dogfighter, I'd have to go with the F-8 Crusader, instead.

Sea Vixen followed by Hawker Hunfer.

Mig-15-23mm goes past your cockpit. 37mm goes under your plane. Good bracketing.

F7U-Cutlass-best looking, lousy engine/landing gear

F86 with 20mm

F104 when I feel the need to kiss the Face of God

Too many great looking planes to really choose.

F-86 if I have to choose.

The Cutlass, as it was the very first model airplane I built.

I'd have to go with the F101 Voodoo.
Mighty big for a fighter!

Hawker Hunter…it's pure aviation sexiness. It was probably the best subsonic jet fighter ever and it just looks gorgeous.

F-89 Scorpion with the Genie nuke missile.

Another Delta Dart fan. Just the "look" of the Fifties

Too many great looking planes to choose!

English Electric Lightning

pilots have described flying it as "being saddled to a skyrocket".

In 1984, during a NATO exercise, Flt Lt Mike Hale intercepted a U-2 at a height which they had previously considered safe (thought to be 66,000 feet (20,000 m)). Records show that Hale also climbed to 88,000 ft (27,000 m) in his Lightning F.3 XR749.

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F-102