In creating our list of the 25 Most Beautiful Airplanes ever there were a number of contenders that just missed the cut. And by just missed, I mean that some actually made it onto the original list only to be bumped off by others. If there’s an airplane you thought should have been included that wasn’t, chances are it would have been on a list of 30 or perhaps 35 most beautiful aircraft.
Two airplanes that were never given serious consideration but which easily could make anybody’s Most Beautiful list are models we wrote about in our last eNews issue: the Gulfstream G650 and Dassault Falcon 8X. It was Marcel Dassault who famously proclaimed that for an airplane to fly well it must be beautiful. He would undoubtedly be very pleased with current state of design at the company he founded. The 8X, a stretched version of the Falcon 7X, is a stunner.
