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Your top-10 all-time military a/c (game-changers and/or just favorites - I had in mind to include game-changers, but there's a handful of faves in there). I had honorable mentions, too, but that would have basically made it a top-15 (or 20) -

Mine:

1. B52
2. Blackbird
3. B17
4. A10
5. F86
6. C130
7. Stealth bomber
8. Corsair
9. P51
10. B-24 Liberator

Not necessarily in order, but game-changers:

1. Supermarine Spitfire
2. Lancaster
3. P-51 Mustang
4. B-52
5. F-14 Tomcat
6. Avro Vulcan
7. A-10
8. B-29
9. B-25
10. Mitsubishi Zero

1. SR-71

Enough said.

So, here's my list of game-changers, in no particular order:


Sopwith Camel
Lockheed C-130
North American P-51
Messerschmitt Me 262
Lockheed U-2
Lockheed SR-71
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
North American F-86
Bell UH-1
Bell X-1

Too many god damn Nazi planes on my list. Assholes.


Junkers Ju 87
Lancaster
Sikorsky Ilya Muromets
Heinkel He 178
Vergeltungswaffe 2
Focke-Wulf Fw 190
Boeing B-52
Supermarine Spitfire
Boeing B-29
Lockheed F-117

Some good ones listed, I'll just add this one:



Almost 5,200 built, used by the Air Force, Navy, and Marines. Growing up I saw so many of these I'm surprised nobody else mentioned them...



The first time I saw the Blue Angels they were flying F-4's.