Got my plane-nerd helmet on today.
Behold the most beautiful Hawker Hunter to have ever existed.
Hunter F.58 N345AX aka. MISS DEMEANOUR.
She used to do bombing-run displays at the air show I used to go with my folks to.
She was one no-one wanted to miss.
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One of my absolute favorite things is early, pre-WWI aircraft where they were clearly still figuring out what worked for artificial flight and what didn't. My favorite example thereof is the Etrich Taube (Dove). Like... That's very clearly just a bird with an engine (though the wing shape was apparently based on the seeds of Alsomitra macrocarpa, otherwise known as the Javan Cucumber)
Ironically, and perhaps sadly for a plane named "Dove", it's main claim to fame is being the first aircraft to drop a bomb in anger. It was used in the Battle of Ain Zara in 1911 to bomb a Turkish military camp, and was also widely used for observation in the early stages of The Great War.
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McDonnell Douglas F/A-18D
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Douglas SBD Dauntless piloted by American Lt. George Glacken with his gunner Leo Boulange. New Guinea, April, 1944
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