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05-24-2008, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Njaco  Surprised you chose the 'B' model of the Mustand Drgn. Any thoughts why? | Yeah - with the malcom hood it had a classy but lethal look - just as a 109G appears to me. Nasty predators.
Then, simply it was a better performing version than any until the P-51H two years later. Major 'bad' on it were the stupid angle mounts and belt feed mech - saved a lot of german lives... and not discovering the wheel door uplock issue as well as the ammo door distorsion under high lift conditions.
I've talked to many 51 jocks that talk wistfully about the climb, acceleration and turn advantages of the B/C over the D. But they liked the D armament, the better reliability and the visibility and still felt it was better than the 'other guy' just not QUITE as manueverable.. that extra 900 pounds did make a small to medium difference. | 
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05-24-2008, 07:59 PM
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Mossie
Lanc
Catalina
Helldiver
only thing lacking is a better fighter but the Brits didn't think the colonials were capable of making Spits so all we had for fighter was the Hurri, funny thing though 5 years later we were making their Sabres until they had something capable on line
but in all seriousness I'd go for the US all round they made better aircraft
the
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Corsair
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05-24-2008, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet And you say that others are biased.... 
Naw its cool man! |
Well, this IS a favorites thread. 
Seriously though, every other week or so, when I come home from work, I check out the newsstand and magazine rack and find a magazine with yet more articles devoted to either the P-51 or the Me-262. I often wonder the true capabilities of the more famous aircraft when compared with their pilot skills. Enough about these aircraft already!
My favorite US/German aircraft happen to be, coincidentally, trainers: the PT-22 Recruit and the Bucker Bu 131. I never see any articles written about them or their international counterparts.
Oh, and final note - I'm hearing from other aviation enthusiats that a retired USAF officer-now aircraft restorer at Dayton Ohio's WPAFM-is currently writing a book or article on his latest research of the Me-163 Komet. He theory is based mostly on mounting evidence that most of the Me-163 engine and structural failures were due not to faulty design, but to sabotage during their contruction by * gasp* French slave laborers.
Paper/or book ( mosty likely a lengthy article ) to be published this coming Fall. I'll forward it here if I ever come across it.
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05-24-2008, 11:21 PM
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Malcolm hood P-51B/C does look classy, and more deadly. | |
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05-25-2008, 11:50 AM
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Country: | Thanks Bill, just curious as the D always gets the press.
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05-25-2008, 12:35 PM
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| I always thought that the P-51 B had nicer lines and was aesthetically more pleasing than the P-51D. The P-51 A had very nice lines too. The Mustang I's and II's in RAF service were very attractive aircraft, maybe the nicest of the lot. | |
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05-25-2008, 01:08 PM
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Country:  | I'm a bit out of the flow with my choice but even as a kid in the early 60's I did and still do love the Fairey Swordfish as a fighter Its the Spitfire as a mean son of a bitch its the Stuka and as representing what a nation did for others a long way from home I go for the B17 (thats why Im as Sally B supporters member) the list I have is too long for this thread but most represent the young men who never went home rather than the machines themselves having said that a flight of Spites sweeping down the field at Duxford makes the hairs on the back of my neck tingle I can tell you. | |
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05-25-2008, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Arsenal VG-33 Well, this IS a favorites thread. | I was only kidding with you man...
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05-25-2008, 10:54 PM
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Country: | I'm partial to the P-47-D or N, the Do-335 Pfeil, the TA-152, the Martin B-26 Marauder, the P-61 Black Widow, the A-26 Invader, the F4U Corsair. I could go on but you guys would probably get bored to death.  | |
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Country: | It's big, it's blue, it's the F4U, USA. The designer, Rex Beisel,sounds like a German. A close second would be the Spit. | |
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05-27-2008, 01:04 PM
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05-27-2008, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by renrich It's big, it's blue, it's the F4U, USA. The designer, Rex Beisel,sounds like a German. A close second would be the Spit. | How about Mustang (and F-86 and F-100) chief designer Edgar Schmeud..at NAA | |
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05-27-2008, 09:17 PM
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Country: | I like the big 5 of US Air Force WWII planes, P-38, P-51, P-47, P-40 and P-39. Yes, even the little P-39.
Aside from that I like the Corsair, the Spitfire, Bf 109, Yak-7, and the Hawker Typhoon. My hats off to the British for making some of the most agile, and to the Germans for beating us in aircraft technology, like the Me 262 and Jet bombers.
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