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07-28-2008, 08:24 AM
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07-28-2008, 08:59 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Im going for the ME262, if this plane was used for what it was intended to do.
It could have been in active service since 1942.
If it was in the skies at the end of '42 and the whole of '43, things might have been very different today.
edd
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07-29-2008, 04:47 AM
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Country:  | Now Allied won anyway so DH Vampire or Martin-Baker M.B. 5 would not have changed anything. If possible I might have voted for M.B. 5, IIRC test-pilots regarded it very highly and it was a dream of maintenance personel because its excellent accessibility. Maybe time to dig up the old AI where there is E. Brown's assestment on the plane.
In the end, Vampire was way to future, so if possible I would have voted it.
Juha
ADDITION: One more point for Vampire, it was perfectly able to land to and to take-off from carrier, as E. Brown showed on 4th Dec 44. It wasn't put in carrier use because of the slow acceleration from which all early jets suffered and lack of range. But that was in peacetime, if the war had continued, who knows. Vampire F. 3 at least partially solved the range problem.
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Reason: Adding the carrier point
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07-29-2008, 04:55 AM
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Country:  | I voted P-80, it would have been a great equaliser in this what if scenario: it would give the Allies a jet that could compete and successfully combat the Me 262.
None of the others gave a particularly substantial increase in combat capability, nor they could really serve as an equaliser - on the Axis side, they could not balance out Allied superirity in numbers, and on the Allied side, they could not hope to be a cure for the German jet menace. | |
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07-29-2008, 08:25 AM
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Country:  | For me it is a toss up between the P80 and the TaA152. It all depends on which side you look at it from, the Ta was the pinnacle of piston engined fighters whilst the P80 was the beginning of the jets. I went for the Ta though because it would of been more well known as the greatest piston fighter if deployed in more numbers.
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07-29-2008, 01:44 PM
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Country: | I went for the Do335 it was faster then many allied aircraft with a top speed of over 480kph. Powered by two DB603 A-2 engines it would have been able to out run most allied and axis fighters. It is faster then the DH Hornet which was officially the fastest two engine aircraft in the world at the time.
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07-29-2008, 02:08 PM
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#22 | | Der Crewchief
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Originally Posted by TL Blade  I went for the Do335 it was faster then many allied aircraft with a top speed of over 480kph. | Um you do realize that most frontline fighters in 1939 and 1940 had a top speed of over 480 kmh.
The Do 335 had a top speed of 765 kmh.
I am sure you meant mph...
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07-29-2008, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet Um you do realize that most frontline fighters in 1939 and 1940 had a top speed of over 480 kmh.
The Do 335 had a top speed of 765 kmh.
I am sure you meant mph... | lol!  | |
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07-29-2008, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by TL Blade I went for the Do335 it was faster then many allied aircraft
It is faster then the DH Hornet which was officially the fastest two engine aircraft in the world at the time. | Faster than an Me 262? | |
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07-29-2008, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by eddie_brunette Im going for the ME262, if this plane was used for what it was intended to do.
It could have been in active service since 1942.
If it was in the skies at the end of '42 and the whole of '43, things might have been very different today.
edd | Eddy - hard to say that the 262 'didn't make it', though. | |
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07-29-2008, 02:52 PM
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Country:  | I'm stuck between Ta-152 and Go-229 flying wing..... 
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08-05-2008, 04:25 PM
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Country:  | I'm going with the Hornet, from the list available. But the Martin Baker MB.5 would clean the lot of them. | |
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