Tom Reed, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, in office from December 4, 1889 to March 4, 1891 and again from December 2, 1895 to March 4, 1899, once said of two particularly choice members of the House, "Whenever they open their mouths, the sum of human knowledge is decreased."
He lived in the days before forum mods, so he got away with that crack. But if I plagiarize it and apply it to friend Malcolm, I get modulated.
The Spit was the most beautiful single-seat fighter of WW 2. No second, no third. Something about that ogival wing just breaks your heart.
The prettiest fighter, imho, was the P-39 Airacobra. If it had had breasts, guys would have married it! Yes, I know, American pilots called it the Lead Sled and other ungentlemanly things, but the Russians got good use out of it not primarily in ground attack as we're often told, but as a low-altitude interceptor. So you see, it was beautiful.