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Fw 190 A-8
FW 190 F-8
FW 190 G-3
FW-190 D
Hawker Typhoon MK IB
Hawker Tempest MK V
Hawker Hurricane IIC
F6F Hellcat
F4U-4 Corsair
P-47D Thunderbolt
P-40E
P-39 Airacobra
Yakovlev Yak 9T
Kawanishi N1K-J Shiden
Breda Ba.65
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Which of these was best?
Last edited by Soundbreaker Welch?; 05-17-2007 at 07:09 PM.
Ok it's up. And while it can seem suprising I didn't add the P-38, well it already won the prize for best two engine fighter on here, and I wanted to limit the results. I didn't include the Apache A-36 either. Not many would vote for it.
Sorry Comiso, but If I included the bombers the list would get too long. It's already longer than I had originally planned.
Last edited by Soundbreaker Welch?; 05-17-2007 at 07:23 PM.
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
By attacker are we limiting ourselves to air to air or ground attack??? Cause a fighter cant compare to the ordinance a fighter-bomber can... Kinda one sided...
Ahhh Haaa. I get the first vote. Gotta go with my beloved Corsair. Fast, tough, versitile, wide variety of ordinance, plus......I like that plane the best. So there!!!
Eight .50's beats six .50's in any fight!
P47 is the best!
"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?"
Mine went to the Hawker Typhoon MK IB .
Reason over the Tempest was simply based on numbers of aircraft that saw operational service between the two types.
Typhoon MK IB
4 x 20mm cannon.
8 x 60 lb rockets.
THAT is going to make your eyes water when it hits you.
4 out of 5 voices in my head say I am normal. Majority rules.
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
The F4U-4 is IMO the best overall fighter-bomber in addition to the best overall prop-driven fighter of WWII.
It was (unlike the glass-nosed Tempests and Typhoons) radial-engined, ensuring its toughness, it could take-off from a carrier, it could still climb better than any Jug, Typhoon or P-51, it also had 8x 5" HVAR's, it had 3 hardpoints for bombs and/or drop tanks, its wing loading was one of the lightest of all high performance American planes, and it was fast... VERY fast.
The F4U-4 Corsair gets my vote!
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few..." - Winston Churchill
So do you think I should have included two engine, two seat aircraft?
Does anybody want a new poll with a P-38, Mossie, Sturmovik, B-25, Avenger, Ju 88, Hesnchel, ect in it? Or is too redudant to other polls the Warbird Forum already has?
We have already a best bomber poll and threads, but some think that one has way too many kinds of bombers. Too hard to compare a Mossie to a Superfortress.
Last edited by Soundbreaker Welch?; 05-18-2007 at 05:25 AM.
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
I still Like the Beaufighter but for single engined Ill go for a tooled up Tiffy or Corsair.
Typhoon for me.
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I agree with you syscom3. But, can you carry as much ammo with 8 guns compared to 6? I know that you get more hitting power with more guns, but who'd run out of ammo first?Originally Posted by syscom3
I'm stuck between several on the list.....
Jan "Felicis Tredecim"
"I´m going back to the front to relax"
"THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT"
"Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!"
"When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"
How about a single seater Il-2?
in what role ? ground attack-strafer, bomber killer ?
Fw 190A-8/R8 or how about JG 7 Me 262A-1a with the effective R4M rockets ?
Rip it up !
That's another thing I was uncertain. I guess it's more a poll about destructive firepower of small fighter/bombers. Which was the best for destroying things on air and ground double quick?
The FW-190 A-8 was devastating on bombers, and the FW 190 F-8 was devastating on ground troops. So I included both types.
The Typhoon, with a firepower like a destroyer, could hit anything flying or rolling with a blast.
But if everybody would like a new poll, I'll do one and include the two engine bombers, jets, and more.
Last edited by Soundbreaker Welch?; 05-18-2007 at 03:13 PM.
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
"But, can you carry as much ammo with 8 guns compared to 6? I know that you get more hitting power with more guns, but who'd run out of ammo first?"
Yes. Each gun of the P-47 has a separate capacity for a maximum of 425 rounds.
The Corsair, as I recall, has 400 per gun except for the two outboard ones which are 375.
August 12, 1944 - In an armor cover mission at the Falaise track, Charlie Rife, 368th FG, 395th FS, takes 37mm fllak rounds to both wings. His wingman, Richard Kik, takes a 20mm round to the engine that knocks out two cylinders. Both make it back.
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