Who needs Bikini? We've got Grapple.
Who needs Bikini? We’ve got Grapple.
We've got 160 of these. We got them cheap from a bloke in Riyadh.
We’ve got 160 of these. We got them cheap from a bloke in Riyadh.

The shapes created on the drawing boards and in the wind tunnels of English Electric, Vickers, Avro and BAC have ended in some pretty strange places. Bryl-creemed and tweeded up, the pipe-smoking aeronautic engineers of the 50s could not have predicted the future fictional life of their creation.

We have all penned an infamous White Paper.
We have all penned an infamous White Paper.

Often piloted by overly-sexualised teenagers in spacesuits, many British Cold war aircraft have earned starring roles in Japanese cartoons. Kind of mental, but I like it. Speaking of mental, this ‘Super Lightning’ is pretty insane.

If you like Japanese aeroplanes, you’ll go crazy for this

This boundary layer control works wonders for my miniskirt
This boundary layer control works wonders for my miniskirt
My favourite colour is red. My favourite shape is the triangle. My favourite material is tin. My favourite activity is inappropriately attired skydiving
My favourite colour is red. My favourite shape is the triangle. My favourite material is tin. My favourite activity is inappropriately attired skydiving

Joe Coles & Ed Ward

If you enjoy this, have a look at the wildly luscious top ten British, French, Australian, Soviet and German aeroplanes. 

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