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Sean Trane 
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 Posted: September 10 2012 at 04:22 |
built!
 
Don't know if they were all that good planes, but the Saab Drakken and Viggen were some of the best looking
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 10:10 |
 Sean Trane wrote:
built!
Don't know if they were all that good planes, but the Saab Drakken and Viggen were some of the best looking
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I would have given my sex life away to lyany one of these babies. i have talked to some guys who have flown them and they said it was better than sex. Only the Draken was exported to Denmark and Austria ( pictured ) The canard wing configuration enabled the to operate from improvised runways. The Viggen was even tested on a grass strip!
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Snow Dog
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 10:18 |
Vulcan has always been my favouirite
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Snow Dog
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 10:19 |
Sean Trane wrote:
built!
Don't know if they were all that good planes, but the Saab Drakken and Viggen were some of the best looking
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Yep. Iwas going to post these two as well...especially the Viggen
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Snow Dog
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 10:23 |
And iof course I love the Spitfire
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 10:34 |
 Many Spit pilots I have spoken with say that this is not really Spit because it was not powered by a RR Merlin. It had a more powerful Griffon. But it still kicked ass. One story I heard was that it was flown against a BAC Lighting and freaking won. The lightning couldn't out turn it! The Spit litterally flew circles around the lighting. In order to stay airborne and effective the Lightning had to maintain a higher speed. The reason for this test was because the Lightings were being flown against piston engined fighters in the far east. Found this on thge web. You will notice that this was a Griffon powered Spit.
Edited by Vibrationbaby - September 10 2012 at 10:35
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Tapfret
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 14:29 |
I'll be on one of these little punks tomorrow. Canada Regional Jet 700, leg room of an elementary school desk. 
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dwill123
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Posted: September 10 2012 at 17:26 |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 10:46 |
Vibrationbaby wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
built!
Don't know if they were all that good planes, but the Saab Drakken and Viggen were some of the best looking
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I would have given my sex life away to lyany one of these babies. i have talked to some guys who have flown them and they said it was better than sex. Only the Draken was exported to Denmark and Austria ( pictured ) The canard wing configuration enabled the to operate from improvised runways. The Viggen was even tested on a grass strip!
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Yikes... I may just have to give my pacifism to try and fly these!! 
One legend I did fly (as a passenger of course) is :
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Slartibartfast
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Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 11:35 |
I was going to say a Telefunken U-47 but it turned out to be a microphone... 
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Atkingani
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 22:13 |
No one mentioned the most famous IMO warplanes of the XXth Century's second half:
McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom II & Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21
Edited by Atkingani - September 11 2012 at 22:15
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Atkingani
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 22:19 |
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Guigo
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Atkingani
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 22:20 |
Another favorite: Airbus Beluga
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timothy leary
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Posted: September 14 2012 at 11:20 |
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Looks like a flying whale or dolphin......beluga
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Dean
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Posted: September 14 2012 at 11:51 |
Only its mother could love that. 
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What?
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: September 14 2012 at 12:23 |
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I looks like someone tried to make the plane look smart by cartoonishly enlarging its cranium.
Edited by Equality 7-2521 - September 14 2012 at 12:23
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Padraic
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Posted: September 14 2012 at 12:29 |
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Sagichim
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Posted: September 14 2012 at 14:36 |
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I work at the airport, and I must say the russian planes are always the weirdest. I'll try and picture some next week if anything will come here.
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dwill123
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Posted: September 14 2012 at 18:16 |
Atkingani wrote:
Another favorite: Airbus Beluga
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It looks like the "Flying Guppy"
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tszirmay
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Posted: September 27 2012 at 13:49 |
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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