 | Best Piston Engined Fighter Ever| Aviation Discuss Best Piston Engined Fighter Ever in the World War II - Aviation forums; Originally Posted by lesofprimus
Pretty much, and I can elaborate no further...
Is it possible that you're a close ... |
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03-20-2007, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus  Pretty much, and I can elaborate no further... |
Is it possible that you're a close friend of Andy McNab ??
__________________  We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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03-20-2007, 12:32 PM
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Country:  | No I am not, but Ive met him twice back in the early 90's... Hell of a nice guy and a sharp operator...
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03-20-2007, 04:04 PM
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| Hehe ok, I just thought I'd figured what you meant by running around in the jungle.
__________________ We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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03-20-2007, 04:42 PM
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Back on topic, lets make a Poll outta this thread.... I can move the posts over to the new thread....
Lets get a list together of all fighters to consider for this... So far I count:
Ta 152H-1
Ta 152C
Fw 190D-12
Fw 190D-13
Ki-84 Ib
Hawker Sea Fury
Hawker Tempest II
Spitfire Mk 21 XXI
Spitfire Mk 24 XXIV
DeHaviland Hornet
F4U-4 Corsair
F4U-5 Corsair
F8F-2 Bearcat
P-51H Mustang
P-47N Thunderbolt
Anymore???
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03-20-2007, 04:47 PM
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| I approve of that list, go ahead and make the poll 
__________________ We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
- Adolf Galland | |
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03-20-2007, 04:52 PM
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Country:  | I would of said the Ki-100 over the Ki-84 but otherwise it is a good list.
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03-20-2007, 06:02 PM
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Country: | I will add the Ki-100 to the list.... Any others guys??
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03-20-2007, 06:32 PM
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Country: | OK go to the Polls section and vote/discuss once again hehe....
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