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Least favourite aircraft?

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by the concerned » Mon May 21, 2018 7:18 am

Mine has to be the mig 29. It may provide a exciting airshow peace but from a tactical point of view it is absolutely useless.

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by jem60 » Mon May 21, 2018 8:02 am

Why on earth did they built it if it's so useless??? :S

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by Snoop 95 » Mon May 21, 2018 8:15 am

Have to agree with IanM that the Boeing X32 was an example of 'if it don't look right, it an't right'. Ugliest plane I ever saw. Looked like a frog with a dinner plate in its mouth. Was very releived when it came second in the two-horse race!

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by TankBuster » Mon May 21, 2018 9:44 am

I don't have a least favourite aircraft. The only thing which I used to dislike was Royal Netherlands Air Force helicopter display team, The Grasshoppers. Now they were boring!

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by a321 » Mon May 21, 2018 9:50 am

Mine has to be the Alpha Jet slow and boring, and why buy one when you could have bought a Bae Hawk. A321

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by acw367 » Mon May 21, 2018 11:42 am

Gazelle and F-27 Friendship. The engine noise is too annoying, a very high pitched whine on both.

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by trotsenstein » Mon May 21, 2018 12:14 pm

Tucano. Dull as dish water
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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by toom317 » Mon May 21, 2018 12:16 pm

Grob Tutor. Most boring aircraft I have ever seen displayed at an airshow.
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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by Mark » Mon May 21, 2018 12:21 pm

Tucano or Tutor, can't decide which...
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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by Surrey Sam » Mon May 21, 2018 12:58 pm

Anything that has a RAF 100 sticker on it.

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by jem60 » Mon May 21, 2018 1:04 pm

PZL M-15 Belphegor.Fell off some obscure designer's top shelf and hit every drawing board on the way down!!.

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by quid21 » Mon May 21, 2018 1:12 pm

F-16 seen one, you seen em'all!

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by FAlcons » Mon May 21, 2018 1:15 pm

Green helicopters in general, but If I have to choose only one: AH-64 Apache.

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by yellowcake-uf6 » Mon May 21, 2018 1:42 pm

P8 Poseidon... just looks like any other 737. Or the Phenom 100...it's too squashed up and stubby. Yeuch!

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by slogen51 » Mon May 21, 2018 1:59 pm

the concerned wrote:
Mon May 21, 2018 7:18 am
Mine has to be the mig 29. It may provide a exciting airshow peace but from a tactical point of view it is absolutely useless.


What!

I must be in the wrong hobby

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by mike.p » Mon May 21, 2018 2:06 pm

I would definitely nominate the F-35 especially the b version. I would like to nominate the name '' ugly duckling'' for them. Why would any designer allow an aircraft to take off with an [ effectively] air brake out.
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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by paddyboy » Mon May 21, 2018 2:43 pm

Blackcat1 +1 ;)

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by Bushpilot » Mon May 21, 2018 2:54 pm

Got to be the Phenom - looks like a badly rearranged transformer.
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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by The Phantom » Mon May 21, 2018 5:39 pm

Blackcat1 +2

The thought of Europe being awash with those in a few years is puke inducing!!

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Re: Least favourite aircraft?

Post by reheat module » Mon May 21, 2018 6:32 pm

I don't dislike the Hawk, as it's kept me from a number of "Blank" days in the loop.
However, when it's red, part of a nine-ship millstone which is seriously outdated, performing laboriously distant manoeuvres, then I know it's toilet-break time.
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