Favourite Airframe and Engine Combo

[Smokey]

If you could choose any prop fighter airframe which saw service in ww2 and fit any internal combustion engine which saw service in ww2, which would they be?

Mine would be a Yak 3 fitted with a Daimler Benz DB 605 ASC (M) engine

Apparently the Yak 3 could achieve 401 mph with a 1290 hp Klimov VK 105 engine, which seems quite respectable

[Jank]

I'd pair the P&W R-2800 with the P-47 bubble canopy ... uh ... yeah.

[FLYBOYJ]

A P-38 with 2 Merlins, just for the hell of it!

[pbfoot]

Alright how about a Fairey Swordfish with a Pratt Whitney R4360

[FLYBOYJ]

Originally Posted by pbfoot

Alright how about a Fairey Swordfish with a Pratt Whitney R4360

Don't you mean a Pratt Whitney R4360 with a Fairey Swordfish?

[Jabberwocky]

Bristol Centarus with a Whirlwind airframe, for the ultimate low alt Jabo.

Griffon 85 with a Mosquito XVI airframe.

Jumo 213 with a Ki-61

[Gnomey]

I would say Spitfire with a Merlin but that would kind of defeat the point of this.

So in that case I will say P-38 or Whirlwind with twin Merlins or Griffons.

[johnbr]

Mosquito with RR Crecy
Fw 190D with DB603n
BV 238 with four Lycoming XR-7755
B24 with RR Pennine.

[Soren]

A Bf-109 with a nice DB-603 engine equipped with the MW and GM system

Or how about a Fw-190 Dora equipped with a Jumo 222 C/D engine with a output of 2,206 KW at Take Off power, or a Jumo 211 J with a output of 1,912 KW at Take Off power.

Jumo 222

[net_sailor]

Originally Posted by johnbr

Fw 190D with DB603

Did you ever heard about Fw 190D-14 prototypes, or Ta 152C variants?

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Well since this is about your favorite not about the best I would take a Bf-109 with a DB-605DM or L.

[net_sailor]

My favorite hybrid is Spitfire Mk.V with Bf 109G engine (i.e. DB 605A). All the best of both types in one aircraft!

Unreal Aircraft - Hybrid Aircraft - Supermarine/Daimler-Benz Spitfire

[mkloby]

Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

Well since this is about your favorite not about the best I would take a Bf-109 with a DB-605DM or L.

very nice! The Bf 109... particularly F variants, has always been my favorite airframe... there's just something magical about them...

[delcyros]

simple and sound:

airframe: Me-163D, slightly modified to accomodate the
engine: HeS30, a lightweighted axial jet engine designed by Adolph Müller, which weighted 2.2 times the weight of the HWK 509 rocket engine but only half the weight of a Jumo-004B. This weight increase may be offsetted by fewer fuel capacity as the specific fuel consumption of the HWK is horrific in comparison to the HeS30.

dates for HeS30:

date of design: 1940
date of benchtests: 1942
date of service: never
ordering background: proposal for a class I-turbine (alike Jumo-004 and BMW-003), later rejected
because of avaiablity of Jumo and BMW-engines in this powerclass.....One of the few WRONG decisions the RLM did in jet propulsion.
compressor: 5 stage axial
turbine: 1 stage axial
weight (dry): 390 Kg (860 lbs) (for comparison: Jumo004: 730 Kg; BMW 003: 540 Kg)
Note that the construction of this engine was simplier than the Jumo but more difficult than the BMW.
compression ratio: 1:3
poweroutput: 860 Kp nominal (1896 lbs)
poweroutput enforced: 910 Kp benchtested (2006 lbs)
poweroutput designed: 1125 Kp (2480lbs) at 10500 rpm (for comparison: Jumo-004: 840-890Kp; BMW-003: 800Kp-927Kp enforced)
thrust to weight ratio: 2.205-2.333

This engine was unexceeded in the following aspects until the early 50´s:
-lowest frontal area
-lowest specific fuel consumption
-highest thrust- weight ratio



and now You have a nightmare fighter and a dream to fly...

[johnbr]

The DB603n had 800 to 1000 more power then the other DB603's
He 280 with He 30 and 3 MG 213 20mm
Horton HO 229 with HeS011c