Whats your favourite plane?

[Slats7]

It's hard to pick a favourite because I love all planes!

B747 has a special spot though - Queen of the skies.

[medhead]

I'd have to say Concorde, never flown it, but almost went into big debt to get one of the last flights. IT just represents something that is unobtainable these days. Ideological love.....

Otherwise 747 would ahve been my first flight and I can still remember the movies that were shown back in 1978 (as a 7 year old heading to KHR via Singapore and Bahrain) - fond memories, perhaps because of great parents who would take me on such a trip.

Otherwise, of all aircraft, the F111, followed closely by the Phantom (america's prove that even a brick can fly)

Or the Lancaster, but then my wife's grandfather didn't have much success with his lancaster. Miosquito, Mustang....???

[Alanslegal]

You know, as a male, we often hear that size really matters and the same applies with planes too - so my favourite is the A380's!

Its just an amazing piece of machinery IMO.

[Danger UXB]

777-300ER on SQ. Those super wide J seats are even wide enough for you to read bedtime stories to your 2 year old..side by side in the same seat ...very cosy and cuddly and the forward small cabin is so quiet, 2 year olds sleep for ever. What a truely magnificent way to travel
Danger UXB

[Homer]

I've had a soft spot for the 747 for a long time, but the 380 is my favourite after just one flight. It's all about the size. Have you ever noticed how the depiction of commercial airline interiors by Hollywood often seems to make them look larger than the real thing? Well for me the 380 is the realisation of that film fantasy. I can still clearly replay the scene in my mind as I walked around the corner at the very front and saw, for the first time, the large internal staircase; the generous headroom and the width of the cabin. She's a beauty.

[Evan]

A340 then A380 or B744, but next would be the A330 and B767.
777's are not really nice to me.... sure in CX i find the whY seats nice (nicer than the SQ ones for some reason) but they are noisy planes and just can't explain why but boring.... they do have nice big engines though

For military planes i love the old F-14's or the F-111's/F-4's

But my number one love since i saw then being baked near my home town (in Ballina, NSW) is the Lancair range... Give me a IV-P with winglets anyday ! or just a simple Legacy

http://www.lancair.com/Main/iv_ivp.html
http://www.lancair.com/Main/legacy.html

Sadly its been many years since the autoclave of Avtech? has been used to bake them.... i think they stopped 15 years ago or so.

[ColinP]

If size matters, I've got a real problem.

My favourite is the Evektor Sportstar for the same reason as Russ stated above @#7. I can sit in the driver's seat .

Sportstar

[Bundy Bear]

Difficult to choose.


Should it be the 767 as its 2 aisle, I can see a time when the majority of domestic flights will be on boring single aisle 737s and A320s,

or the 747 because it was so much bigger than anything else at the time with the spiral staircase and the 10 across seating.

or should it be the A380 because its the biggest and quietest plane at the moment, on take off you almost feel like you are gliding, yes I was a passenger on the inaugural A380 SYD-SIN.

None of the above.

Concorde it flew faster and higher than anything and I completely missed flying on it.

[NM]

Any plane where I get to turn left or go up the stairs after entry (with the exception of the ATR and others where the entry door is behind the wing).

[notzac]

For me it's the Airbus widebodies - A380, A340, A330. Compared to similar Boeing planes they're very quiet and they feel more spacious due to the wider cabin design.