I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with a liking for all those string and canvas flying machines. The really beautiful streamlined Albatross and the Walfisch, or the pug-ugly Camel. Mind, I've always been intrigued by the oddities... That dainty little French "Parasol" scout and the massive great bomber built by Sikorsky for the Imperial Russian Air Force and used on the Eastern Front early in WW1, or the armoured Junkers used for ground attack work in 1918.

Between wars, how about all those weird and wonderful experimental things like the tail-less flying wings like the Westland Ptereodactyl. Ugly as sin and the ancestor of the Stealth and B2. (for a real bit of deja-vu, have a look at some of the Horten flying wing jets late in WW2)

The Me163 and the "Volksjager" for all-out weirdness in WW2, but for "conventional" aircraft in WW2, I admire the Westland Whirlwind, a sleek, fast, hard-hitting twin engined single-seat fighter with the promise to be one of the best aircraft of the war if engine production priorities hadn't been changed.