Mikhail Simonov, Obituary

[Ascot 1960]

Mikhail Simonov: Aircraft designer whose Su-27 is regarded as the best jet fighter of the 20th century has passed away in Moscow.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mikhail-simonov-aircraft-designer-whose-su27-is-regarded-as-the-best-jet-fighter-of-the-20th-century-2240870.html#

[Irish251]

Mikhail Simonov: Aircraft designer whose Su-27 is regarded as the best jet fighter of the 20th century has passed away in Moscow.

Hmm, depends on what criteria you pick, as there is a long list of potential claimants to that title, including at different times the F-4, F-15, F-16, F-86, Mirage(s), Hunter and several of the MiG designs which were built in large numbers and widely exported.

[Stanly]

Mikhail Simonov: Aircraft designer whose Su-27 is regarded as the best jet fighter of the 20th century has passed away in Moscow.

Hmm, depends on what criteria you pick, as there is a long list of potential claimants to that title, including at different times the F-4, F-15, F-16, F-86, Mirage(s), Hunter and several of the MiG designs which were built in large numbers and widely exported.

To say nothing of the elegant F-104, the Saab stable and even the Me-262.........

[Fouga]

To say nothing of the elegant F-104, the Saab stable and even the Me-262.........

The F-104 Starfighter was a joke, nothing elegant about her.

[Frank]

The F-104 Starfighter was a joke, nothing elegant about her.

I sure hope you're taking the mickey when you say there's nothing elegant about the F-104?

[Fouga]

I sure hope you're taking the mickey when you say there's nothing elegant about the F-104?

I wish I was but it was a joke of an Aircraft, They never called her the Widowmaker for nothing, a very unsafe aircraft with high sink rates/ bad loading and Luftwaffe Top Brass-Man Erich Hartmann resigned from the Luftwaffe in protest over the choice of the Starfighter as the services main interceptor.

[Stanly]

The F-104 Starfighter was a joke, nothing elegant about her.

I sure hope you're taking the mickey when you say there's nothing elegant about the F-104?

Gentlemen.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! It may have been a pig to fly, killed people (I don't mean the bad guys!), etc., but to my mind she still looks good and as for the sound from a low-level fly-past..................

[Frank]

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