P-80.

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. Another Papa favourite in the air battle over Korean skies. Often used as a chase plane at the Muroc Army Airfield in the late 1940's, a P-80 flown by Bob Hoover was airborne to witness Chuck Yeager smash through the sound barrier on the 14th October '47.

F-86

There's something very special about the early Jet age, that period from 1946 to the early 1950's that produced an awesome array of naive but wonderful planes. Perhaps the pinnacle of design and function in this era was achieved in the North America F-86 Sabre Jet. It's ability to sweep the skies of the Russian Mig-15 during the Korean War is legendary. The terminology being 86'd came to mean being finished or out manoeuvred.

P-38 Twin boomed technology.

The Papa loves P-38's, it's his all time favourite plane of WWII. The lines of the twin boomed tail strike an aesthetic chord beyond all others. Along with the P-38, the other twin boomed beauties were the P-61 and perhaps one of the most gorgeous planes ever, Howard Hughes's XF-11.