Flying Magazine is proud to introduce Flying's Top 100 Airplanes, a web-based compendium that names the 100 best, most significant and most compelling aircraft designs of all time.
The list of authors who contributed to the project includes test pilot and airshow legend Bob Hoover, golf Hall of Famer Arnold Palmer, Hollywood A-lister Harrison Ford, NASA astronaut Robert "Hoot" Gibson, aviation training pioneer Hal Shevers, former Cessna CEO Jack Pelton, and more.
Click through to check out which airplanes made the list, and which didn't, and in the process fall in love all over again with some of your favorite aircraft of all time.
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"Millions of Hits Later"?
I suppose web projects are graded on number of hits.
Maybe that's why I had to click the mouse 102 just to see the list....lol
I missed Harrison Ford's comments so I had to click back a gazillion times to find it. If the counter consider those individual clicks as unique hits, then I am responsible for the success of this project.
You're welcome.
I'll hold my breath until the royalty checks start piling in.
This is the best drill fighter of all times and peoples. Nikita Khrushchev said: "We will do missiles and aircraft, as sausages, but done with this fuck of American capitalism!"
Fine for an American Magazine. No DeHavilland Tiger Moth...Oh really. No Dehavilland Mosquito...you know the wooden wonder. No Avro Lancaster. No DeHavilland Chipmunk. And you put in a Cessna 177....What a horrible aeroplane.
Come on guys put some more international thought in. The Antonov 225...bigger than anything else. Some more of Airbus products. I'm a Boeing man myself, but credit where it is due...the 380??????
Is it possible that the author of this dismal list has never been to the National Air and Space Museum?
Is it possible that he has never seen or heard of the incomparable Lockheed VEGA?
The VEGA is arguably the most significant and revolutionary airplane ever built.
The Vega held more records for time, distance, altitude and endurance than ANY other aircraft ever built, 72 at last count.
It was flown by a list of aviators which included Wiley Post, Lindberg, Earhart, Capt. Ira Aker, Francisco Sarabia, Glen Kidston, and Alaskan greats Eilson, Cross, and Orville Tosch.
The Vega was the FIRST Lockheed acquired by the U.S. military, and at the time was the FASTEST airplane in the U.S.A.A.C. inventory.
The VEGA is the ONLY airplane that is represented twice in the National Air and Space Museum collection (the great Winnie Mae and Amelia Earhart's Red Bus).
Sooooo, let m see.......... Ercoupe? Cessna 182, 172, 150? Cherokee, Arrow, Aztec? Kit Fox? and the Cirrus?
You have got to be kidding me!!! Spam cans and fiberglass junk. There will not be a person who will remember or care about them fifty years from now.
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