Best real world comic book planes

[Weaver]

Ken Steacy's Tempus Fugitive series features a whole gamut of aircraft, as our time-travelling hero attempts to evade his pursuers and complete a mysterious mission.

These are just the foreground ones, not the background stuff:

F-101A Voodoo
Far future "polymorph" craft that can look like any other plane
A huge 1950s bomber, like a B-36 on steroids, that features A-5 Vigilantes as parasite aircraft (yes, really  )
Douglas Dauntless
F-105G Wild Weasel
OV-10 Bronco
Various Skyraiders
CH-53
F-4E Phantom
Pucara
Far future one-man tilt-rotor gunship that you ride like a motorbike
CF-104 Starfighters
Albatros
Sopwith Triplanes
He-162
He-219
Ar-234
P-51D Mustangs (red tails)
DHC Beaver
B-52
MiG-27s
Hard Corps A-6E Intruder (Hard Corps "aircraft" have wings removed, big tires, pintle MGs and are used as ground vehicels for desert-raiding)
Hard Corps EE Lightning
HardCorps F-18B
Hard Corps SEPECAT Jaguar
Hard Corps A-10
Hard Corps Kfir
Hard Corps F-16
Hard Corps MiG-27
Hard Corps MiG-21
IAI Lavi
Fictional Israeli advanced fighter, like Monogram F-19 but with FSW

That enough? 

[Paul Wagner]

It is the BUGATTI Model 100 Racer - see here and here.

I love that plane. There is, however, as far as I'm aware, no 1/72 kit of it - am I wrong???

Paul

[elmayerle]

Paul, I believe there's been a limited run kit of it, but that's all.

[madoc]

Paul & Evan,

That's be a Project Model Bugatti Racer 100P kit.  It's a low pressure styrene injection kit and somewhat crude in its rendering.  But, it is in 1/72 and looks to build up nicely enough.  I score on on eBay about six years ago for $50 or so.

As to the bird in real life, it was a racer through and through.  The pilot was almost flat on his back in that cockpit.  The thing was twin engined and its driveshafts ran around the pilot!  Each engine was slightly angled off the centerline to help with the driveshafts losing as little energy as possible.  They knuckled at about the mid-point of the cockpit with a universal joint to then angle back inward to the nose where they drove their own props.  I'd imagine that in real life that arrangement would have been a true joy to work with, given early 40's tech. 

The long driveshaft aircraft of the day were straight-through affairs and it seemed hit or miss which designs ran into vibration problems and which didn't.  On as lightweight an airframe as that racer had to be, such problems could get bad indeed.

Still though, she's a true beauty!

Madoc