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Notable first generation aircraft:
-Avro CF 100
-Gloster Meteor
-Lockheed P-80
-MiG 15
-North American F-86

Notable second generation aircraft:
-Dassault Mirage III
-English Electric Lightning
-MiG 21
-North American F-100
-Saab Draken

Notable third generation aircraft
-Dassault Mirage F1
-McDonnel Douglas F-4
-MiG 25
-Saab Viggen

Notable fourth generation aircraft
-Dassault Mirage 2000
-Lockheed Martin F-16
-MiG 29
-McDonnel Douglas F-15
-Sukhoi 27

Notable four.five generation aircraft
-Dassault Rafale
-Eurofighter Typhoon
-Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 60
-Saab Gripen
-Sukhoi 30MKI

Notable fifth generation aircraft
-Boeing X-32
-Lockheed Martin F-22
-Lockheed Martin F-35
-Sukhoi 47
-Sukhoi PAK FA

Notable Pre-1945 fighter aircraft
-Focke-Wulf Fw 190
-Fokker Dr.1
-Fokker Eindecker
-Messerschmitt Bf-109
-Mitsubishi Zero
-North American P-51
-Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
-Sopwith Camel
-Spad S.XII
-Supermarine Spitfire

I like the pre 1945 and 1st gen fighters.

8-)

Generation 2 for me. That's when you started to get the really fast stuff.

There is life and flight before WWII finished...

Voted pre-1945, but I would like to specify pre-30's

Bi-planes and tri-planes going at it in the first dogfights must have been a truly awe inspiring sight. 8-)

Any time period that has twin radials floating around in it

Matt

When only real men were fighter pilots, and shot at eachother up close and personal. No fancy radars and missiles....

It would probably be a better distributed poll if WWI and WWII fighters were two separate categories.

Surely the first generation fighters were those used in WWI. I think it would be less confusing if the word Jet was added to the Subject line & the Pre 1945 option removed. I suspect that was what EJW was thinking of when he posted this poll.

My vote goes to 4 gen aircraft!

But where is the F-18 in that list, surely that is a notable aircraft

Pre 1945:

1910 Bristol Boxkite.

Dropping rocks on the enemy below.

Paul... ...!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Boxkite

1910 Bristol Boxkite.

Dropping rocks on the enemy

Then the second pass coup de grace, both pilot and observer simultaneously using their relief tubes

1910 Bristol Boxkite.

Dropping rocks on the enemy

Then the second pass coup de grace, both pilot and observer simultaneously using their relief tubes

Two of your "1st Generation" choices should by rights be in the pre-1945, although only one was flying operational missions before then.

3rd generation. You have 3 amazing fighters in the F 16, Mig, and Flanker.

2nd generation was a very close 2nd place... no pun intended