What's your favorite fighter aircraft of all time?

It gotta be the A-10 baby!

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Just invading my own poll...
Oh well. My favorite aircraft is the SR-71B.

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Gotta go with the penultimate fighter from the Grumman Iron Works, the F-14 Tomcat. It's big, it's beautiful, and it's a movie star. What more could you ask for? (Other than the F110 engine as opposed to the TF30, but I digress.) Runners up include the F-104 Starfighter and F-106 Delta Dart, with a special place carved out for the F-8 Crusader.Black Hawks, Thunderbolts, and Blackbirds aren't fighter aircraft by the way. A relative of the SR-71, the YF-12A, was a proposed fighter, but Robert S. McNamara seems to have killed it in favor of the F-111 and other things, such as Lyndon's Excellent Southeast Asian Adventure.

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Thats not the only thing missing, where's the F-15 Eagle!?!?!?

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The RS-71 isn't a fighter. The A-12 was.My favourite is the F-104C."The F59PHI and Genesis are the lamest excuses for locomotives Amtrak has ever operated - accept it and move on. Hug an F40 before it's too late!""To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
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LAST EDITED ON Dec-17-04 AT 05:55 AM (EST)

Where's the P-51's,Fw-190's and Spitfires?And the F-86's and Mig-15's?

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K -- First offSR-71 ? Fighter ? You have actually seen pictures of it right ? -- Second offBlackhawk ? Fighter ?I believe it falls under the catagory of HELECOPTER !! -- Last but not leastWHERE'S THE FREAKIN F-15 ?? ( C - D or E )Oh well ... From your list above I chose the F-16 as it is FAR more superior than anything else in that listLaterTim Kent – 96th_Malice - Winnipeg CanadaProud Member of the NO TRAIL CN SD-60 Club

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Tim has a point: where is the F15? Here are some pics if you are not sure what an F15 looks like:The last shot is my little tart in a short frilly skirt Sukhoi 33: the business!Mike

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And oi!Where's the F-15????

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Here it is!Mike

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What!! No Super Sabre!!

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I would say it would be a tie between the F-14 and F-15 (if they were on the poll). Of course if you are going to have the Mig-29, need to have the SU-27!Mykel

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Yeah as was said beforeThe SR wasnt a fighter, the A-12 was the interceptor varient, but even then it wasnt successful.The Blackhawk is a chopper, the A10 is a GA and CAS plane.and you left out the F-8, F-4 and the century series of jets as well.

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LAST EDITED ON Dec-24-04 AT 11:29 PM (EST)

Naw, the YF-12 was the interceptor variant. The A-12 was used for a lot of things that the CIA doesn't like to talk about. The F-12 would have worked, sort of, but it was in competition with the F-111. That wasn't allowed in the McNamara DOD, so out it went. A book I've got on Lockheed's reconnaisance aircraft suggests that the F-12 would have been a fantastic interceptor with a fantastic weapon (AIM-47 Falcon) but that keeping them operational as stand-by interceptors would have been impossible. From what I understand, the SR-71/A-12/F-12 family were miserably complex to maintain.

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My all-time favorite is not on the list, and it would be the F-4 Phantom II, arguably the greatest jet fighter produced by the West: not only was it rugged and reliable, but it could be adapted to a huge variety of roles and could carry a hefty payload: It also racked up an impressive combat record in Vietnam and the Arab-Israeli wars. Alas, it's time has passed.Now for new stuff, it'd be the F-22: expesive as hell, but the cost shows, considering the F-22 utterly owns everthing else currently flying...Jonathan Nikiforovs.
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Where's the spitfire?!?

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the SR-71 is a impressive machine... but as mentioned earlier, not a fighter.For me, give me a Mig-29 and Im happy.Matthew Mitchin
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My favorite millitary aircraft isnt a jet. It is the Bell 212 "Huey" chopper. Im sure any Vietnam vets know what these are.

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>My favorite millitary aircraft isnt a jet. It is the Bell
>212 "Huey" chopper.Nitpick: The UH-1 "Huey" is actually the Bell 204. The Bell 212 has twin engines...Jonathan Nikiforovs.
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Well there close.

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