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My first thought was the MiG-15.

Deathshead420 wrote:Either one would do.

I think the reason I always pictured the MiG rather than the Sabre is the MiG looks more like a barrel with wings and the wings are mounted in in the middle of the fuselage (vertically speaking), where as the Sabre looks more shaped and smoothed and the wing is low mounted.

spincr wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Maybe a Sabre, but nothing really looks that much like Ork technology which would never really work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre

What a beautiful world that would be!

An Ork Bommer could probably fly, it just wouldn't fly "well" so no one would actually do it. Some of the Imperial aircraft look more unrealistic to me than the Orky ones.

Red_Starrise wrote:Well, the Stormraven and Valk/Vendettas also have thrusters in other places that will compensate for stability issues. Not to mention they arn't flying at extremely high speeds like a proper fighter craft.

They're gunboats and have more in common with helies.


Real Imperial fighter craft are more streamlined. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Navy

Specifically the Avenger, Lightning, Thunderbolt, and Marauder bomber are all more reasonable aircraft.

Yeah, I see what you mean, but you have things like Storm Ravens and Thunderhawks which are supposed to be reasonably high speed drop ships and they have these huge squared off edges that would make that damned near impossible and most of them would need some sort of special magical devices we don't yet have to fly even at low speeds. Even the more "fighter" like of the Imperial aircraft despite having huge arse jets look like they'd struggle to keep up with your average WW2 propeller powered plane. The term for it in aerodynamics is "bluff", Imperial fighters are covered in bluff faces that you won't see on any aircraft made since, I dunno, before WW1, if at all. Even on boats (the variety that sail on water) figured out bluff bodies aren't good for sailing thousands of years ago. The Orky aircraft look more like an actual working aircraft (albeit covered in Orky bits and made with poor construction) than most the Imperial fliers.

I dunno, I'm not gonna build them to test, but the Orky fliers just look like realistic planes with poor construction and random orky bits which would destroy performance but the base design is still reasonable, the Imperial fliers look like nothing no engineer human, ork or otherwise would ever design in the first place.