Best Looking Fighter of All Time .

Dammit, that'll teach me for posting on a Friday afternoon. You're quite right - mislabelled photo and I didn't catch it. Actual P.1081 for you...
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I have to say that the Fiat G55 is the best looking of the single-engine Daimler-Benz V12 powered fighters.

Just look at these beautiful lines....

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Compared to this...

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Though I have to admit the Bf109 looks better than the DB-powered Ki-61. There's something off with the tail.

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I like all three.
 
I know it was useless in a turning fight and started off with concrete for radar, but I've loved the look of the Tornado ADV (or F3) since I first saw it.

With its eventually good radar, extreme endurance, heavy armament and twin engines, I think it would have been great for Canada's NORAD commitments.

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Tomcats are nice too, but IMO there is no prettier swing wing fighter.
 
The only thing as quick as a Tornado F3 at low level was the MiG 23 and the Tornado was a smidge quicker.

I read an account of a low level interception of a formation of B1B's on a NATO exercise, the Tornado's chased them down and killed them all.
 
The only thing as quick as a Tornado F3 at low level was the MiG 23 and the Tornado was a smidge quicker.

I read an account of a low level interception of a formation of B1B's on a NATO exercise, the Tornado's chased them down and killed them all.

It's a shame for the Tonka that the upgrades (mostly data sharing and similar) that made it one of the premier fighters in Europe came when it only had a few years of service left rather than in the 1980s or early 90s.
 
You are all forgetting Germany`s last fighter of WWII
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Behold the Messerschmitt 262 .Possibly the best looking of the early Jet powered fighters .

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WW 1 the Albatross, WW 2 have to go with P-51. I see no love for the F-102 or F-106. F-5 always thought it a sweet little plane.
 
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