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Here's the results as they stand currently...
Posted by Lynn with the latest update on Wed Feb 20, 2002 06:02:10 PM
In reply top Vote For Your Favorite Aircraft posted by Mike Henniger on Wed Feb 20, 2002 12:42:44 PM
1. Bombers
27.23% Avro Lancaster
9.69% Boeing B-29
9.75% Consolidated B-24 Liberator
11.96% de Havilland Mosquito
41.37% Boeing B-52
2. Fighter/Attack Aircraft, Piston
39.64% Spitfire
43.63% P-51 Mustang
5.73% Messerschmitt Bf.109
6.90% Lockheed Lightning P-38
4.11% Mitsubishi Zero
3. Fighter/Attack Aircraft, Jet
30.47% British Aerospace Harrier
36.51% General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
10.53% North American F-86 Sabre
15.52% McDonnell F-4 Phantom
6.97% Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
4. Flying Boats and Float Planes
8.81% Grumman Goose
53.73% de Havilland Beaver
19.50% Consolidated PBY Catalina
6.92% Martin 130 China Clipper
11.05% Lake Buccaneer
5. Helicopters, Military/Civilian
29.43% Bell Model 47
34.22% McDonnell-Douglas AH-64 Apache
11.98% Sikorsky S-61
20.54% Bell 204 (HU-1) variant
3.83% Boeing Vertol 114 (Ch-47 variant)
6. Light Utility Aircraft
13.12% Piper Super Cub
58.02% Cessna 172
5.71% Piper Comanche
3.62% Beech Bonanza
19.53% Learjet
7. Training Aircraft
23.80% de Havilland Tiger Moth
5.12% Boeing/Stearman Kaydet
15.73% de Havilland Chipmunk
31.10% North American T-6 (Texan/Harvard)
24.25% Northrop T-38 Talon
8. Transport, Military
13.12% Douglas C-47
52.89% Lockhead C-130 Hercules
4.35% de Havilland Caribou
14.96% C-5 Galaxy
14.68% Antonov 225
9. Transport, Civilian
7.90% Boeing 707
24.79% Douglas DC-3
4.92% Lockhead Constellation
44.81% Boeing 747
17.58% Concorde
10. Special Purpose Aircraft
10.21% Wright Bros. Flyer
20.51% NASA Space Shuttle
13.79% Bell X-1
2.82% Scaled Composites Voyageur
52.68% SR-71 Blackbird
Just goes to show you can't account for taste, I s'pose. Naturally, I threw my vote to the 109 since that was the plane which raised the bar for everyone at the time of it's inception, but it's not exactly a widely accepted notion, especially as it carried those funny black crosses... ;)
Lynn