Yeah yeah fsk you I'm old. Here are the coolest from MY year, 1968: Thurston Teal. I have a real affinity for flying boats with high-mounted pusher motors: MIL V-12. Because the Soviets had REALLY good drugs and thought, "Wait... Sergey... wait... check this out... imagine a helicopter, right? Right?... BUT TWO OF THEM... with the fuselage of a passenger plane....! EA-B6 Prowler Of course, in all honesty, the coolest plane is either Grumman's Prowler: ... or the C5A Galaxy: Yeah. The Galaxy wins. And woah... I just discovered this little snippet that happened in 1968, at this cool site: He was flying one of these: 
April 5 — To protest the lack of an aerial display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force four days earlier and to demonstrate against the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock of the RAF's No. 1(F) Squadron makes an unauthorized display flight in a Hawker Hunter during which he "beats up" (i.e., buzzes) several RAF airfields and flies low over London, where circles the Houses of Parliament, dips his wings to the Royal Air Force Memorial, and flies under the top span of Tower Bridge, becoming the first person to fly under the bridge's upper span in a jet aircraft. He is arrested upon his return to base.
