Best World War II Aircraft? - Page 68 - Aircraft of World War II

Catch22 · 12-06-2008, 10:15 AM

Yeah, good point Marcel. Though, if you're willing to leave the confines of the war, the design of the Corsair did allow it to see mainstream service into the 50's.

Marcel · 12-06-2008, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Catch22

Yeah, good point Marcel. Though, if you're willing to leave the confines of the war, the design of the Corsair did allow it to see mainstream service into the 50's.

True, the Corsair was a great fighter.

Elvis · 12-06-2008, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by kool kitty89

Elvis, on fighteres alone there have been several "best fighter" threads, the overal reasoning gets pretty complicated in such discussions, particularly given the abiguity of "best." (and what it means to be the best fighter, which devides into interceptor, dogfighter, escort, etc... as well as if best means most important, best performing, most effective, etc.)

There's a good poll http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/pol...r-7415-12.html (Best Piston Engined Fighter Ever...) which was organized after a preceding discussion thread to narrow down the choices. So you can see that there are a lot of variables even in such a discussion even when you narrow it to a single type.

In terms of most important to WWII of all types, it would have to be the C-47.

I brought up the fighter plane thing because its all that was being mentioned (at least over the past couple of pages), with one or two mentions of the C-47.
It seemed to be more immediate to how the present discussion had turned and also, there seemed to be some mentioning of a small group of fighters being "above" all the others, so my last post was coming from that direction.

...however, I do agree with you on the C-47. In fact, I think I stated just that, about 50 pages ago.

Elvis

Eurofighter · 12-12-2008, 10:11 PM

In my opninion there is no such thing as the "perfect" fighter but there are many that deserve the title of "One of the finest fighters of WWII" mine being the P-51 Mustang.

FLYBOYJ · 12-13-2008, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Eurofighter

In my opninion there is no such thing as the "perfect" fighter but there are many that deserve the title of "One of the finest fighters of WWII" mine being the P-51 Mustang.

This isn't necessarily about fighters - all round aircraft - best built, contribution to the war effort, longevity, legacy - the C-47 takes it....

p51#1wwii · 01-26-2009, 08:57 PM

yea the FW190 kills man. aces fly it

it pwns!!!

FLYBOYJ · 01-26-2009, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by p51#1wwii

yea the FW190 kills man. aces fly it

it pwns!!!

Brilliant!

p51#1wwii · 01-26-2009, 09:05 PM

i think the P-51 is pretty good.

FLYBOYJ · 01-26-2009, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by p51#1wwii

i think the P-51 is pretty good.

Ok...........

SoD Stitch · 01-27-2009, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by p51#1wwii

i think the P-51 is pretty good.

Ah! Reminds me of flyboy in his younger days . . . . . .

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 01-27-2009, 02:30 PM

I do not know if I can take another one!?

FLYBOYJ · 01-27-2009, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

I do not know if I can take another one!?

Your Siggy will become the size of a whole page!

Marcel · 01-27-2009, 03:26 PM

Time for the quotes thread, Chris

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 01-27-2009, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Marcel

Time for the quotes thread, Chris

Yeah I need to get that thread going. Maybe this weekend.

swallow · 01-29-2009, 11:22 AM

I'm interested to know if anyone can help with a comparison of flight characteristics between the WWII Typhoon 1b and the later Tempest V?

Thanks
Swallow

12-06-2008, 10:15 AM	#1006
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