Of cours there are many more beautiful aircraft in the world than the twelve on my toplist. But I decided to restrict my favourites list to twelve. Because, where would it end? At thirty, fifty or maybe even one hundred? Or more? After long consideration I decided to add some runners-up, numbered 13-25: much admired aircraft that just didn't make it in the top-twelve list. You can see them on the next few pages.

13 - Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - 13
14 - Vickers VC-10 - 14
15 - Grumman F-14 Tomcat - 15
16 - Consolidated PBY Catalina - 16
17 - Boeing 757 - 17
18 - Fokker G.1 - 18

19 - De Havilland Canada Twin Otter- 19
20 - Junkers Ju-52 - 20
21 - Antonov An-225 'Mriya' - 21
22 - Vickers Viscount - 22
23 - Lockheed C-5A Galaxy - 23
24 - Boeing 777 'Triple Seven' - 24
25 - Sikorsky S-61N - 25