Favorite plane?

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Nope... new favourite..... only cause , i pick up some experience with Light planes is.
A Fokker Eindecker modern made ultralight ... probably be the best fun hobby plane you could have.
And a very early adopter of a monoplane Wing design for early Aerial combat. And it Wing design, made it look like it was inspire by the Gothic culture. Or a Bat .?....

The first plane I flew as P1

My favourite plain in the Nullarbor

I'm not that up on planes, but a while back I fell down the "weird bombers of WWI" rabbithole and found Italy's Caproni Ca. 4 series at the bottom. They were twin-fuselage triplanes, with the pilot and forwards gunner sat in a central nacelle that also held a rear prop.

Just Love the real Weird looking ones....kinda reminds me of a Box kite.

This one's for Jakki.
The Blohm and Voss BV141

^^^^Thats a great oddity.. the Germans made some real oddities ...made their stuff interesting to figure out ...
but am amazed somebody would want to be willing to fly that one.
Then, looking this thing up, gound the Me 163.. a rocket plane that the motor only ran for a short burst..I think ?
Then glides at high speed. Not exactly good if your flying into combat ,? perhaps
Then found a Dornier Single Engine Turbojet engine whose intake was directly above the Pilots canopy .Made of Plywood or something ? Hope the pilot would never have to eject or bail out of that plane..Get sucked right into the intake

Ty that was a rare burd ..

Cartesian

For a while I had a picture of a German (WWII) ME109 as my desktop

One year late hubby gave me a artisan model of glass and some colour of a SuperMarine WW2 Spitfire in a wood based glass bubble..about 6 inches wide , if a glass model of ww2 fighter plane could look pretty ,that was it..
It was my birthday.

Why would fly an ME 163?

If they landed successfully there was still a chance the ground crew could crack the canopy and find the pilot dissolved by a fuel leak.

had not read that yet...poor pilots...dissolved by fuel is even a aweful way to go, even for a Nazi ...

Yeah, some expiremental plane pics give you a headache just seeing them because their looks defy logic. Here is a later day American example from well-in the jet age. A jet with swept forward wings. The onboard computer had to correct its flight direction a zillion times a second (imagine throwing an arrow backward).

For what it's worth, the X-29 needed constant correction because it has 'relaxed stability', not because of the forward-swept wings.

The F-16 and Mirage 2000C also feature relaxed stability and require fly-by-wire to constantly monitor and adjust their control surfaces too.

Meanwhile the Hansa Jet has a FSW and doesn't require fly-by-wire because it's inherently stable.

Russia also built a FSW demonstrator, although theirs seems like it might have had greater ambitions based on it's weapons bay.

Yes..Yes.. defying logic....certainly..you gotta sometimes wonder if the Engineers onsite at the time . Must either had too much time to be lazy at their jobs...or possibly, what were they drinking when they made these designs....?. .

Nah, they just understood that forward swept wings avoid some problems associated with traditional swept wings. The main downside is that they're subjected to strong twisting forces that made them not really an option without modern composites, without those materials the weight would be too high.