> > From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/10/18 Thu PM 08:14:26 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Completely and totally OT: Politics > > On 10/18/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can we talk about the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter? Please Bob? There's a > > plane that is gorgeous. The B-58 Hustler gives me goosebumps too. > > That was the most beautiful aircraft ever designed, IMHO. > > Okay, there's the Spitfire, but it's the most beautiful (and dangerous > looking) jet was (and is) the Starfighter.
It's got some serious competition. From (roughly) the same period the Hawker Hunter, EE Lighting and the Dassault Mirage delta wing come to mind immediately. If you're covering all bases the V bombers are hard to beat, the (fatally flawed) Valiant being my favourite. > > I think I told this story to the list before, but when I was a kid I > lived about a kilometer from the Canadair factory. Canadair, later > sold to Bombardier for a song and a dance was the government owned > aircraft factory that among other planes, built CF 104s in the 60's > for both the Canadian and German airforces. I remember them flying > (literally!) over my house, both taking off and landing (depending, > obviously, on the wind). When those afterburners kicked in, they made > one hell of a lot of noise! > > But it was cool noise to a 10 year old kid... > > ;-) > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
