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11-21-2005, 12:20 AM
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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, 06:24 AM
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#2 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country:  | 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, 11:07 AM
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#3 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | 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, 06:53 PM
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11-21-2005, 07:00 PM
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#5 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country: | 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, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ For the benifit of you newest member.....
If we're gonna talk in general across the board, all nations all types..... The C-47! | your right the best a/c ever | |
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11-21-2005, 07:26 PM
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#7 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by pbfoot Quote: |
Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ For the benifit of you newest member.....
If we're gonna talk in general across the board, all nations all types..... The C-47! | your right the best a/c ever | YEP!!!
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11-21-2005, 07:40 PM
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Country: | 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, 07:43 PM
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11-21-2005, 08:19 PM
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#10 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | 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, 08:24 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, 08:29 PM
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#12 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | 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, 08:33 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, 09:38 PM
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#14 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country: | 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, 10:17 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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