Which is your favourite fighter aircraft era?

[EJW]

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

[Brando14100]

I like the pre 1945 and 1st gen fighters.

8-)

[EJW]

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

[ozzy72]

There is life and flight before WWII finished...

[ShaneG_old]

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-)

[expat]

Any time period that has twin radials floating around in it

Matt

[BFMF]

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

[Splinter562]

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

[Hagar]

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.

[Layne.]

My vote goes to 4 gen aircraft!

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

[Fozzer]

Pre 1945:

1910 Bristol Boxkite.

Dropping rocks on the enemy below.

Paul... ...!

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

[olderndirt]

1910 Bristol Boxkite.

Dropping rocks on the enemy

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

[RaptorF22]

1910 Bristol Boxkite.

Dropping rocks on the enemy

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

[C]

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

[The Snake 87]

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