OFF - Big nasty planes

[bart]

> About the comment that the B2 was the scariest aircraft someone had seen.
> When I was younger I used to live with the bottom of my garden backing
> onto a RAF camp, and they had one airshow there where they had a Vulcan
> bomber turn up and do some manoevres. One of these was (and I'm sure it was
> pretty illegal as was way too low for flying over a residential area) to stand
> on end and go straight up right over where I was standing in my garden. The
> noise was HUGE.

The coolest big plane has to have been the Valkyrie. What a bummer the
prototype crashed - that was a real Gerry Anderson design :-)

But enough nerdy tech appreciation for this list.


Tim


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