Drop test of Airbus' spaceplane

[Winter Man]

If we're just saying planes that look awesome now, The B2 bomber. Not the American stealth bomber, though. The Handley Page Victor B2.

That's the K2 variant, but the B2 looks pretty much the same.

[peadar1987]

I really like the Dassault Rafale, far nicer looking than the Typhoon or the Raptor IMHO

[PakledHostage]

so the senior engineers grabbed the main guy and dragged him out to a test stand, where he couldn't blame aircraft systems.

Thank you for clearing that up. So it did happen, but the demonstration occurred at the test stand rather than in flight. That is much more believable than the way it was presented upthread.

[Aghanim]

F-14 all day long. Hugely aesthetic design, you can see it echoed by artists in things like Macross and Battletech.

I have looked on Google for that aircraft and look, that variable-sweep wing! I wonder if FAR simulates variable-sweep wing correctly