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They have a Jenny at the museum here.  It's my favorite plane in the place.  I am amazed how small and rickety that thing really is.  Let's just say I understand the phrase 'spit and bailing wire' now. 

this is a hard one cos i think there'd be a difference from an old one to a modern day one.

Old:  Avro Lancaster painted in Standard Bomber Command Colour scheme.  Nose art: Hitler as a pin cushion!

New:  F-111 'Pig' in Low Visibility grey and RAAF 1 SQN Insignia on the front.

Although my favorite Spitfire is the MkXIV, My personal Spit would be a MkIXc painted as MK398 and wearing the code letters JE-J.

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Hunter F.Mk.6 or Lightning F.6, both gloss black, both with a St. Andrew's flag on the tail and christened Kyrene, ok so it dosn't work with every name then , errrrrrrr ???

Aircraft: Sukhoi S-21
Paint: white/blue sunburst

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i know and that aircraft is based probably about 30 kilometres west of me at RAAF Amberley!  They are no longer painted in the camoflague but are now painted in Low Visibility Grey and no longer have the coloured 1 SQN insignia on the back, but like that, they look mean!

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When I was about ten y/o, and saw my first F4 Phantom, I had fantasies for years about having my own.
In my later teens, I got into WWII history and wanted nothing but a P-51.
Around 17 y/o, I saw Apocalypse Now, and HAD to have T-38(F-5).
Around 23 I started working in general aviation, and wanted to own my own Kingair C-90.
As I approached 30, and realized that my Lotto tickets weren't paying off yet, I started scheming to buy a fast Homebuilt, like a Lancair or Glasair.
When the first kid arrived, it became "maybe someday, perhaps a Cherokee 140?!"
Now that I'm 35, I've said "I'll settle for a cub".
I figure by the time I'm 40, it'll be an ultralight! ? 
I think it will be the color of whatever canvas I find to cover the wing.
I'll call it "sour grapes 1".
The nose art will be a McNally roadmap pasted to the nose cone/knee fairing, to be used as my primary nav-device.
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My interest in aviation history and classic airplanes wanes with anything older than 1939. So when I visit the Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola, I go straight for the Corsairs, Hellcats, Phantom, Hornet etc. .....  BUT when people ask me about my favorite airplane in the museum, the first one is the NC-4, the second,  the Jenny with the cutaway, fuselage and wing. As a former aircraft mechanic, I consider an airplane that's built almost entirely by hand to be a form of mechanical artwork. The detail involved in hand planed ribs and stringers, hand sewn fabric covering, and brass nails and fasteners, all attached by hand is nothing short of exceptional. It helps to remember to put yourself into the time period in which this plane was built. Not to single out JUST the Jenny either. I'm sure that any of the aircraft of that era were of  equal build quality.