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10-26-2005, 09:09 PM
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#16 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country:  | B-25 WITH A 75! Typhoon for a single engine!
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10-26-2005, 09:12 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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| And why isn't the P47 Jug on there?
I also think the Ju88 with it's 75mm is a contender as is the FW190.
Weren't radial Tempests used in ground attack sometimes? | |
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10-26-2005, 09:41 PM
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#18 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | Since the Fw-190A isnt on the poll, I voted for the Ju-87G.... I just adore those 37mm....... Even if Rudel only actually scored 50% of what he claimed destroyed, he still destroyed over 250 Russian Tanks..
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10-26-2005, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by schwarzpanzer And why isn't the P47 Jug on there?
I also think the Ju88 with it's 75mm is a contender as is the FW190.
Weren't radial Tempests used in ground attack sometimes? | Tempest doesn't have a radial engine. The Sabre was a 24 cylinder H-form engine. Visualize it as 2 horizontally opposed 12 cylinder engines (each with 6 cylinders on each side of the crankshafts) one above the other, with the crankshafts coupled together through gear reduction onto a common propeller shaft. | |
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10-26-2005, 11:19 PM
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Country:  | The Il-2 was basically the A-10 of its day, heavily armed and armored it could carry a nice payload as well.
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10-26-2005, 11:20 PM
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Country: | Wasnt the Dauntless a Torpedo Bomber or am I thinking of a different USN aircraft?
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10-26-2005, 11:21 PM
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Country: | I would have Voted for the Stuka but the IL 2 could do the same things but it was faster and better protected.
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And my misfits way of life.
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Most valued possession.
Hindsight is always 20-20,
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Speak of mutually assured destruction?
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10-26-2005, 11:43 PM
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#23 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Wasnt the Dauntless a Torpedo Bomber or am I thinking of a different USN aircraft?
| Different.... Dauntless was the Navy Divebomber.... Quote: |
I would have Voted for the Stuka but the IL 2 could do the same things but it was faster and better protected.
| Yup, but this isnt best, this is favorite.... I like the look of those 2 cannon hangin under the wings, and the sound they make...
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10-26-2005, 11:51 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Dauntless was a dive bomber, Devestator was a torpedo bomber.
My favourite is the Beaufighter! Had a **** load of cannon, machine guns and could carry rockets, bombs and torpedoes. The Japs gave it the nick name of "whispering death".
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10-27-2005, 12:05 AM
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| Sorry to be pedantic, but it was Silent death actually, my grandad loved that plane.
It had silent sleeve-valve engines, though so do did others in WW2. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jabberwocky Tempest doesn't have a radial engine. The Sabre was a 24 cylinder H-form engine. | I'll try again... was it the Napier?
It may have been the Typhoon? | |
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10-27-2005, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Erich now you've got me looking CC  the Hs 123 and this is right off the top of my head served in the night ground attack role over the Ost front till wars end with sub nachtschlact gruppen | Interesting! I always though it was phased out in '43 in North Africa, but staying till wars end wouldnt surprise me, it was an effective platform... Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jabberwocky Tempest doesn't have a radial engine. The Sabre was a 24 cylinder H-form engine. Visualize it as 2 horizontally opposed 12 cylinder engines (each with 6 cylinders on each side of the crankshafts) one above the other, with the crankshafts coupled together through gear reduction onto a common propeller shaft. | The Tempest II had a radial but that didnt see service till post war...
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10-27-2005, 05:25 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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| It's a hard call but a B-25 with
8 - .50s in the nose
4 - .50s outside the cockpit
2 - .50s in the top turret
All slaved to the pilot AND
3,000lbs of bombs.
At the very least I don't want to be in front of it!
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10-27-2005, 05:28 PM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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Country: | yes, and dont forget the optional 75mm, all this added up to a world of hurt for the people on the wrong side of the gun barrels. | |
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10-27-2005, 05:57 PM
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#29 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by MacArther yes, and dont forget the optional 75mm, all this added up to a world of hurt for the people on the wrong side of the gun barrels. | The 75 was another matter, my uncle once told me they had to tighten the rivets in the planes with the 75s every 18/20 sorties. They also didn't have much of a firing rate or much amo - I think I'd rather have the .50s.
BTW: there is an H model in the New England Muesum of Flight at Bradly Int. Airport.
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10-27-2005, 06:16 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I voted for the B-25. Although the proper name is A-25. I like with the 75mm gun on including the pilot controllable 8 .50 calibers in the nose!
That could tear some ass....
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