For me, Lightning and F4 Phantom
…and not forgetting the Hawker Hunter, especially after it flew under Tower Bridge!
Dave
Another one I forgot to add to my list.
I can’t believe no one else has put this one forward, but the SR71 Blackbird takes some beating. So futuristic Marvel simply stole the design wholesale for their fictional X-men jet (though adding VTOL to the stolen design)
Well I did specify British…
Yep. I saw a display by a civilian one after they were retired. That was a long time back.
I wonder, but don’t know whether or not it was the same one that crashed at Shoreham. There can’t have been many flying in civi street.
As an aside one aircraft I had travelled in as a passenger later crashed with a fatality. Different pilot.
Speaking of the SR 71 I’m sure you’ve seen this clip. If not it’s worth 5 minutes of your life to hear it, or to listen again
That is worth the listen, so too a story where a pilot beats up the tower at a civil airfield
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Yeah, I think it’s called “the LA story” or something similar.
Mea culpa… Yes, you did. I have now taken up residence in the corner with my pointy D hat 
Well, that’s all my favourites covered.
However… On a technicality that it didn’t enter service until 1946 and therefore qualifies as post-war (though it was developed during the war) I’d like to offer up this interesting looking beast, the de Havilland Vampire
The Vampire was another infamous heap of Farnborough air show crash notoriety.
I was actually there when the RAF Hunter crashed in Tintagel.The pilot’s account suggests an anything but good design.
Turbine blade failure which the Olympus was known for.
I presume your opinion is backed by one or more reliable sources.
No worries, I’ve made a fool of myself more times than my meagre memory bank can cope with.
The DH Vampire and the Sea Vixen did fill a gap, but the twin-boom tail was probably a compromise too far.
Says who? The Bristol-Siddeley Olympus was tested all the way to failure during extensive trials and testing and if ever there was an aircraft that went through the mill, it was Concorde.
“Sources? He ain’t got no sources! He don’t need no sources! He don’t have to show you any stinking sources!”
Here’s a rare glimpse of CF in an early film appearance
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www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/July/28/concorde.world2
The information, regarding Concorde’s vulnerability, to uncontained engine failures, was known and stated by BAE itself.No surprise it made and continues to make that report difficult to access.It is there in PDF form within the Blazetech article if you want to look for it.
You think the Olympus has no record of blade failures in everything from the Vulcan to Concorde to static genset applications.That information is also there ‘if’ you want to look for it.
Also the pilot’s account of the Tintagel Hunter crash.Which ironically also ties in with the Shoreham crash in which photo evidence immediately before the Shoreham crash clearly shows that the engine had flamed out or at least serious loss of power.Assuming you’ve got the slightest idea of what a jet exhaust at full power looks like.
The pilots in both cases being made scapegoats and victimised to hide rubbish design.
No!
The lack of proof proves that there is a conspiracy!
That is how they work y’know.