This week, I got to go to my polling place to vote, which means that I had to drive past the F-4 Phantom jet at the local museum to get there, something that always makes me happy. Maybe it’s the delta-wing design, maybe it’s the novelty of living so close to an air museum, but for some reason that fighter plane always makes me happy. It’s right up there with the F-14 I loved as a kid, thanks to G.I. Joe’s Skystriker, or Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing, leading to today’s aeronautical query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) thinks that people who worry about the ‘sitting duck’ comment miss the fact that the Rebellion of a galaxy, far, far away clearly uses a modern English alphabet, asking: What’s the coolest fighter plane/ship of all?
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I know I am in the minority here, but the B-Wing is a neat ship.
X-Wing has tight competition from Supermarine Spitfire & Mitsubishi Zero.
The Gunstar from The Last Starfighter.
The Defiant from DS9
It’s hard to narrow that one down. WWII, I am fond of the Flying Tigers version of the P-40 War hawk. Modern would be the A-10 Warthog. Movies, would be the X-wing, of course.