Regardless of anything else I think we can all agree that this shouldn’t get within half a mile of the list:
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of the Chinook - I can tell when they fly overhead when I’m indoors with the windows shut - but she definitely has a face for radio! 
Honestly I think the last attractive British helicopter was the Gazelle, and that was probably because it was French.
I was thinking helicopters too, but yeah, the Gazelle, even though the Brits aided with R&D, seems mostly French.
The Lynx is cute, but nothing top-20 worthy.
I really really like the Sea King. And though Westland made it into what it deserved to be, the original design was by Sikorsky.
I think the debate does kind of boil down to form vs function. The Spitfire is a work of art, the comet is beautiful! Where maybe the Harrier isn’t art per say but the function is impressive and deserves recognition.
edit: also the Mossie looks good from every angle and if you disagree with me you can meet me out side 
The Mossie is fantastic, yep 
Autocannons at angles fifteen is the mudspike way. Its how fightclub started.
Speak for yourself! 
The jet’s got the ludicrous wing sweep of a bird of prey tucked in for the attack, the aggressive anhedral of a shark, the shoulders of a Valkyrie…and the pugnacious jaw of a British Bulldog…
It’s like Elizabeth Hurley and Winston Churchill had a love child.
What could be more British!
Edited to change the double picture.
They put a harrier in the Tate gallery of moden art. That makes it Art.
No you’re not. Both showed up on lists upthread. @freaks and @Victork2 . And I can’t say I disagree tbh. Even if the Javelin fook’n sucked as a fighter.
Please never, ever, ever, put those worlds in the same or congruent order please.
Too late. It can’t be unseen. 
Now there is a British Bird that is just as bodacious today as she was when she stepped out in ‘that’ Versace dress…
Horrible, horrible mental image I now have of her coupling with Winston Churchill notwithstanding 
I like it… but the Tempest has a prettier wing planform, and then you have to look at the Tempest II, and then you’re getting to the Sea Fury…
Then again, Tempest II has the dorsal fillet and doesn’t have the cockpit bump…
How to choose between them! We need a rich benefactor to let us fly them both to compare 
I like the early Tempests that have the giant scoops and old-school exhaust pipes. Honestly hard-pressed to tell the difference between a Tiffy and a Tempest, and I always get confused when they get the Sea Fury-looking front end.
Typhoon on the left, Tempest V on the right. Main difference is the wing…
Sea Fury and Tempest II are very, very similar. The shorter vertical stabilizer with the dorsal fillet are the giveaway for the Tempest II… the Sea Fury also has a hump to raise the cockpit higher for naval ops but it’s hard to see unless you’re comparing one to the other.
OK, I’ve decided that in my opinion the Tempest II is the prettiest Hawker piston powered monoplane!
