Favourite variable geometry winged planes, page 1

posted on May, 13 2004 @ 04:30 PM

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What are you favourite variable geometry winged planes?

I think the Tornado is great because of its low level flying capabilites

Nans DESMICHELS

posted on May, 13 2004 @ 04:37 PM

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I know it's not an officialy existing plane, but a project but :

My favourite one is AX-17 (The black version, not the reversed wings one).

DJDOHBOY

posted on May, 13 2004 @ 06:44 PM

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still love the F14 tomcat

gemron

posted on May, 13 2004 @ 07:47 PM

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You say Tomcat, F-14
I say Aardvark, A-111
Tomato, tomaato,
lets call the whole thing off.

Sterling46

posted on May, 13 2004 @ 08:44 PM

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My favorite would have to be the su-24

Amet Khan

posted on May, 13 2004 @ 09:04 PM

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Hard to pick a single favorite. Here's a few examples

Tu-160

Beech Starship

AD-1

Messerschmitt P.1101

Amet Khan

posted on May, 13 2004 @ 09:07 PM

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Originally posted by DJDOHBOY
still love the F14 tomcat

Yup.

Hard not to like the tomcat! It's almost certainly the most successful operational variable geometry aircraft. There may have been more Su-17/20/22 series built, though, if you're just keeping score by raw quantity.

jetsetter

posted on May, 14 2004 @ 12:41 AM

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I like the F-111. My grandpa used to work on them. When they would fly to Nevada from California at low level the paint would melt off the nose.

Hyperen

posted on May, 14 2004 @ 01:27 AM

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That AD-1 looks unusual. Does it do special things?

gemron

posted on May, 15 2004 @ 01:54 AM

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The AD-1 was a proof of concept plane that demoed the fact that the swept wings of a plane did not have to take on the familiar double sweep that we are accustomed to. I believe that the handle name for this plane was "The Flying Scissors"