 | Planes that look the part:thugs,brutes,killers.| Aviation Discuss Planes that look the part:thugs,brutes,killers. in the World War II - Aviation forums; the TBM Avenger definately............ |
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01-23-2007, 11:12 AM
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#16 | | Master of Ewes
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01-23-2007, 12:00 PM
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| Agreed. TBF Avenger definitely looks the part. |
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01-23-2007, 02:12 PM
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#18 | | Master of Ewes
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01-23-2007, 09:13 PM
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Country: | Me-323 (Gigant) and C-5 Galaxy, Large lumbering transports that scream size and transport capability. Also require a lot of maintaince work on their engines. |
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01-24-2007, 02:24 AM
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| No aircraft of WWII said 'it's over' like the B-29. |
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01-24-2007, 10:44 AM
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#21 | | Member
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the Ki-102 Randy been a lil brute in my eyes aswell 
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01-24-2007, 11:18 AM
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#22 | | the old Sage
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Country: | not so sure about the Me 262 the Swallow, she looks fast and sleek
how about my fav ground attack job, in this case the Ju 87D. could be loaded for boar  |
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01-24-2007, 11:23 AM
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Country: | I am not a fan of the 262's aesthetics. She just didn't look mean! Although, I bet she'd look mean flashing 30mm at your bomber zipping by at 400something knots.
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01-24-2007, 11:42 AM
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01-26-2007, 12:03 PM
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#25 | | Master of Ewes
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01-26-2007, 12:38 PM
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01-26-2007, 01:11 PM
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#27 | | aka Dickcheese
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Looks like a hunched bird of prey with the gull wings and the pug foreend with gun turret looks like its smoking a stogie.
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01-27-2007, 03:14 AM
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#28 | | Master of Ewes
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01-27-2007, 07:22 PM
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#29 | | aka Dickcheese
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01-28-2007, 09:23 AM
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#30 | | Junior Member
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Originally Posted by Thorlifter Ugly - Any plane made by Blohm and Voss, P-40 without the shark mouth. It just looks naked without it.
Brute - P-47, Typhoon,
Killer - B-25 that had 8 fixed machine guns in the nose, 4 more on the sides, and 2 more in the dorsal gun. That would punch a hole in anything | I disagree on the P.40! I think the sexiest ones didn't have the sharkmouths. 
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