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11-21-2005, 01:20 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Queensland
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 | Best A/C of WWII Where do we get into discussions about WWII aircraft and which was the best of them? |
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11-21-2005, 07:24 AM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| Welcome Ausaviator, There are dozens of threads debuting the best bomber, fighter, transport, etc., try going through the archives and you'll get a perspective of our members and what goes on here. Cheers!
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11-21-2005, 12:07 PM
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 | yep you've come to the right place to discuss WWII aircraft, like Flyboy said it's worth looking around for a bit first, there's plenty of "bests" topics, we'll listen to any suggestions in them........ btw, best aircraft of WWII? the lancaster 
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11-21-2005, 07:53 PM
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| Nah, it's the Mossie
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11-21-2005, 08:00 PM
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| For the benifit of our newest member..... If we're gonna talk in general across the board, all nations all types..... The C-47! 
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11-21-2005, 08:02 PM
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11-21-2005, 08:26 PM
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11-21-2005, 08:40 PM
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| in the 80's some of the ground guys were saying they went to replace cables on a dak they used factory specs they didn't fit it turns out it was used as glider tug tug in ww2 and it had stretched 8" i can't confirm that |
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11-21-2005, 08:43 PM
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| It wouldn't surprise me!
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11-21-2005, 09:19 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| Joe, you beat me to it. My vote of best aircraft would go with the C-47 as well.
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11-21-2005, 09:24 PM
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| Greatest aircraft of World War 2 has to be the C-47. What if Germany would have won??? Would that make the JU-52 the number 1 aircraft? Combat aircraft would have to go to the A-26 Invader. It lasted three wars. World War 2, Korea, Vietnam.
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11-21-2005, 09:29 PM
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| The JU-52 wasn't even close. The C-47 was the DC-3, which at one time, carried 90% of worldwide commercial airline traffic (1939). After the war, it lumbered on in commercial usage and there are part of the world where they are still used today! I would go as far as to say that the DC-3/C-47 was the best airplane ever made as far as longevity, influence and durability.
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11-21-2005, 09:33 PM
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| Don't get me wrong I agree about the C-47 as the best. But what if Germany had won. Would they have stopped the production of the C-47 and only built the JU-52. Also, part of the world??? Try the United States. I worked for a freight company a couple of years ago that still uses them. They also have one that has been upgraded with turbo props.
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11-21-2005, 10:38 PM
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| If Germany won WW2? The JU-52 would of been delivering parts to the factories building C-47s. I bet Germany would of built C-47s in mass numbers!!!!
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11-21-2005, 11:17 PM
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| The C-47? What are you guys thinking? It wasn't a combat aircraft! It was a transport! Sure, it was a great transport, but best of WWII? Maybe you guys were born quartermasters (nothing wrong with that ...), but I think the greatest aircraft of WWII has to be at LEAST a COMBAT aircraft!  |
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