Greatest Aircraft Of All Time Pre-poll PAGE 2

[Clipper]

Welcome back! The nominations are coming in fast and furious. Everyone seems to be quite opinionated on what really is the Greatest Aircraft of all time...Post your nominations here, and remember, if you nominate more than 1 aircraft, only the first on your list will make the upcoming poll!  :)

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Just to be naughty (and to make Jake mad)...Lisunov Li-2

[Jakemaster]

Just to be naughty (and to make Jake mad)...Lisunov Li-2

ITS THE SAME EXACT THING just built under contract, and not nearly as successful as its predecessor, the DC-3

[Cobra]

Sorry, no contest 747 for sure...

No questions here!

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

ITS THE SAME EXACT THING just built under contract, and not nearly as successful as its predecessor, the DC-3

No it isn't...for starters...it's not called a Douglas...it's called a Lisunov

And if it's built under contract from the Douglas DC-3...shouldn't it be the same thing...which means that you are saying that the DC-3 isn't successful...tut tut...and there I was thinking that you loved the DC-3

[Souichiro]

CONCORDE!!!

[Jakemaster]

Okay, The Li-2 is the same construction.  However, Liusenov did a crappy job and their Li-2 was not nearly as successful as the DC-3.  It is the same thing, as it is the same design, but building methods may have been different.  You dont see Li-2s flying around as much today as DC-3s

[KDSM]

No it isn't...for starters...it's not called a Douglas...it's called a Lisunov

And if it's built under contract from the Douglas DC-3...shouldn't it be the same thing...which means that you are saying that the DC-3 isn't successful...tut tut...and there I was thinking that you loved the DC-3

Its a reverse engineered copy of the DC-3,except it has different engines.
Just like the Tu-4 is a copy of the B-29 right down to the repair patches

I nominate ummmmmm.........

[USMC_BEANS]

737 hands down!  Over 6,000 sold, over 5,000 delivered.  A little biased?  Yes I am.  I just happen to be a Boeing engineer here in Renton, WA and I watch 737's fly out of KRNT all day from my office window.  Tough job, I know!  

[F3Hadlow]

Supermarine Spitfire, in all of its variants.

[legoalex2000]

Cessna Caravan.

Ramos

[Ivan]

Li-2 (AKA PS-84) is a semi-licensed copy of the DC-3. The russian builders did visit the factory, but the legal status of the copy is not clear.

Depending on what type of it you see, there are some differences.

All Li-2's have more windows in the cockpit.
Most of the production ones have 'Arctic' cowlings that can be shut completely (HA-LIX doesn't have these, RA-1300K has them)
Engines are different (either a 1000 hp one row radial or a 1300hp M-82 in the later ones)

And why there aren't much of them still flying... Climate and the way these were used. Before the An-2 the only thing available for Siberia was the Li-2, and they probably used them to the last mile they could get out of the airframe.

And for the record... they even used 2 Lancaster bombers for passenger traffic until the 1950's

[maulepilot117]

You dont see Li-2s flying around as much today as DC-3s

i don't see any DC-3's either...wait...on second thought, i did once




in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in downtown D.C.!

[Lazerbeak]

To break away from the DC-3 debates for a minute, I nominate the Wright Flyer. If it were not for this lightweight little miracle, neither the DC-3, nor any other of our nomiations would even exist. In my opinion, you can't beat the one that started it all, no matter how successful it's descendants were.

[Jakemaster]

737 hands down!  Over 6,000 sold, over 5,000 delivered.  A little biased?  Yes I am.  I just happen to be a Boeing engineer here in Renton, WA and I watch 737's fly out of KRNT all day from my office window.  Tough job, I know!  

Douglas DC-3: Over 10,000 Sold and Flown!