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Originally Posted by pitbulllady
F-19, no doubt. I see so many of these, living just 30 miles from Shaw AFB, that they're as familiar as 4x4 pickup trucks in these parts! They're fast and maneuverable, too. Still, when it comes to aircraft, for me the old prop-driven planes just have more class by far. It's like comparing a modern import sports car with a classic American-made vehicle; sure, the modern car may be fast and have a lot more cool gadgets(or as my grandfather would have put it, more stuff to break down and cause trouble), but they just have no soul compared to the old cars of yesteryear. I don't know of any modern aircraft that has the same spirit and same artistic lines as the B-17, for instance, just like I can't think of any modern car that can hold a candle to my 1951 Champion, made by the same company, Studebaker. Modern vehicles just have a "coldness" to them that leaves me unimpressed, but then, I guess that's part of the territory when you're getting up there in years yourself!
pitbulllady
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Well, I can see far from from that. Fokker, Cessna, Embraer (110,120,121) and other turboprop or piston has been rather popular along time ago. Airbus and Boeing r the main competitors for Jets and The Russian jets fell after the fall of Soivet Union, but yea. Reliability is better.