AIRCRAFT APPRECIATION REBUTTAL BY UNQUALIFIED ASSERTION

The P-51 was the supreme Allied fighter, in function, air-to-air effectiveness, and ineffable nobility, particularly in defeating dangerous matched opponents like the 190 and curiosities like ME-262s, V1s. The Spitfire, unrivaled in aesthetics, and its ugly stepsister the Hurricane, SAVED THE WORLD AT THE ESSENTIAL MOMENT with desparate grace. The Corsair, a powerful fighter, was ungainly, ill-deployed, and late - like a hair band in 1995.

The Curtis Jenny was the DEMOCRATIC HEART AND SOUL of aviation at its most joyful.

Although these flying wings look fun, the flying wing was originally a Nazi design for bombing New York with WMDs. The related Stealth bomber, (directly related as it turns out) you may have read, does not take kindly to becoming WET.

Any airhole could obliterate speed records in an X-15. YEAGER flew the - again rather graceful- X1 into unknown possibilities.

I cannot let the B-17 be disrespected as anything less than the greatest of all operational bombers.

A small group of Seattle area aviators with WAY TOO MUCH MONEY are building and trying to market reproduction ME 262s.

You say Fokker triplane, I say SE 5.