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Apr 2nd, 2009 at 7:44pm

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You know how Top Gear has a "Cool Wall?" Well, I thought it would be fun to do a aviation Cool Wall. The categories are "Seriously Un-Cool," "Un-Cool," "Cool," and "Sub Zero." I would like you to post to airplanes and where you think they should go on the wall, and then I will assign it to where I think it should go, just like Jeremy Clarkson!  Wink Grin
Debate is welcome.

I'll start it off with the P-51 and C172.
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Edit: This should probably go into "Specific Aircraft Types." Can a mod please put it there?  Tongue
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Reply #1 - Apr 2nd, 2009 at 10:28pm

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What characterizes the different levels of "coolness"?
 
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Reply #2 - Apr 2nd, 2009 at 11:02pm

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Put the Cessna 400 in the cool category.  Fixed gear, single engine, and it outruns anything else
 
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Reply #3 - Apr 2nd, 2009 at 11:15pm

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Obviously need the SR-71 and F-22A on the "Cool" category... Maybe even Sub-Zero for the SR-71!

The X-15 deserves Sub Zero... That baby flew into Space! It's pretty dang cold up there from what I've been told  Tongue Tongue

Can I vote the Super Guppy into the " SeriouslyUncool" category as well? Ugly, UGLYYY plane!
 
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Reply #4 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 12:46am

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No real characterizations. If it looks good, that points in the direction of coolness, along with it's "awesome" factor.  Smiley
 
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Reply #5 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 1:01am

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Isak922 wrote on Apr 2nd, 2009 at 11:15pm:
Obviously need the SR-71 and F-22A on the "Cool" category... Maybe even Sub-Zero for the SR-71!

The X-15 deserves Sub Zero... That baby flew into Space! It's pretty dang cold up there from what I've been told  Tongue Tongue

Can I vote the Super Guppy into the " SeriouslyUncool" category as well? Ugly, UGLYYY plane!


im sorry but if the F22 isnt sub-zero then nothign else is! lol
 
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Reply #6 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 1:43am

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Isak922 wrote on Apr 2nd, 2009 at 11:15pm:
Can I vote the Super Guppy into the " SeriouslyUncool" category as well? Ugly, UGLYYY plane!


What?! The Super Guppy may be super ugly, but it's still cool. I mean, how many airplanes can do this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/LoadingSuperGuppy.jpg

Sideways opening nose? Cool.

I would also like to vote the PBY Catalina as cool.
 
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Reply #7 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 1:44am

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P51, that goes in the sub zero freezer with Jeremy's DB7 Cool

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Reply #8 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 1:47am

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So which category would you put a Cri-Cri in Huh

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Reply #9 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 2:54am

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Doesn't really work without the arguments  Huh
 
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Reply #10 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 5:54am

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Lockheed Constellation is most certainly 'Cool-Sub Zero'. Cool

Spitfire is 'seriuosly un-cool'. Tongue Lips Sealed
 

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Reply #11 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 6:03am

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X15 isn't cool at all.....it's noisy, extravagant and unreliable....Kristin Scott Thomas certainly wouldn't get in it.....

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Reply #12 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 6:07pm

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seems some of you have no idea how the cool wall works lol.
Ugly doesn't make it uncool and being the best doesn't make it cool.  Wink Smiley
 
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Reply #13 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 6:54pm

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expat wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 1:47am:
So which category would you put a Cri-Cri in Huh

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Using Craig's argument above (and he's quite right), things such as the F22 and P51 tread a fine line. The F22 is the one that all the geeky schoolkids like, the same for the Eurofighter, so sorry, seriously uncool, as is Dave (F-35). Same argument for the 737. All it's done are ensure that the east coast of Spain will never be the same again, and has helped spread the drunken British tourist across Europe and the med. Same for the 747. Before that came along, only posh people could afford transatlantic air travel, now everyman and his dog can pop over - and why, when adding a stair case, did they only put room for about 2 people upstairs? 

F-104. That's cool, as is the EE Lightning, and the P-38 to be fair. The Spitfire would suffer like the P-51, but the Hurricane with it's quiet quirkiness would be on the right.

How uncool.

[all above comments are tongue in cheek, and no offence should be taken. Well, not much, anyway!) Cheesy
 
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Reply #14 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 9:35pm

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Yes, anything french is "Seriously Un Cool."  Grin
 
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