Most beautiful warbird/trainer ( 1939-1945 era )

[Jack Cook]

I'm still waiting for OP to start shouting T-28...T-28....T-28

[RickH]

Jack, you're putting ideas in the boy's head ! I'll give O.P. power, a certain sense of style, that round motor sound, but I'm not willing to give him beautiful as it regards a T-28 !

[TheFlash]

Doesn't anyone consider the T-6/SNJ to a beautiful Trainer/warbird?

I happen to think it's quite a beautiful aircraft.
(Even my wife thinks the T-6 is "cute".)

-Mike

[yakdriver]

The Curtiss Falcon has really sexy lines.

[V1VRV2]

Agreed. Don't forget the Curtiss AT-9 Jeep. Great lines, and great advanced trainer. If you could master it, the whole AAF inventory was easy in comparison.
Gillman

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

I still love the Naval Aircraft Factories N-3 Floatplane.

[retroaviation]

I gotta say Rick's posts of the STM series is one of the best looking ones out there.

Gary

[ThinkingManNeil]

Hands down the Ryan ST-A/ST-M PT-16/20 series; they are works of airborne, art-deco sculpture. I would even argue they were one of the prettiest, if not most beautiful airplanes, to have ever taken flight.


Photo via Wingspan Magazine , April 1994

I would give my left nut to own one!

N.

[O.P.]

T Twenty AHHHhhhhhhh, You picked those dates to deliberately shut me out

Heheeeeee

Jacks right, it was only a matter of time

Anywho,,,

I might be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that WACO UPF-7s and YMF Supers were used as primary trainers in WW2. If that is the case, they get my vote.

[k5083]

I will nominate a couple of types that have been unfairly ignored.



The Fleet 16B Finch may not be as sleek as the Menasco Ryans nor as well proportioned as the Kaydet, but it's got them all beat for sheer putt-putt cuteness.



The Waco PT-14 (military UPF-7/YPF-7) also lacks the Kaydet's classic proportions but for my money it has more sex appeal.

August

[Juke]

I think he's got ya there Juke. That sorta looks like a flying canole.

Ok I go for a little pic of this plane to explain why I feel Hanriot H 232.2 from 1939 ( first flite 1937 ) is pretty awesome;

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q168 ... ot_232.jpg



At least it it is top of the class in the twin category.

I talked yesterday to a man who had actually seen one during the war. He recalled it appeared to be quite high...and small.

It had 12,75 meters span. 8,55 meters lenght. 1635 kg emptyweight and 335 km/h topspeed.

[Warren_C]

Here my pick

[Elroy13]

My vote goes for the Curtis AT-9!!!

[EDowning]

My suggestion.






Photos by Paul Bowen.

[Juke]

Anyone have 3-views ( preferably factory made ) of this 1939 version of the french Hanriot H 232 ( designated Hanriot H 232.2 ) ?

There were plans at State Factory in Finland, but they have disappeared. I have trouble making a model of it without proper plans.

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q168 ... ot_232.jpg



It was a fabric covered aerodyne with a metal structure.