 | Piston engine epitome?| Post-War Discuss Piston engine epitome? in the Other Eras forums; Originally Posted by dahut
Depends on your perspective. I agree, heavy lifting by a smallish airframe is a wondrous feat. ... |
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01-19-2007, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by dahut  Depends on your perspective. I agree, heavy lifting by a smallish airframe is a wondrous feat. Ive always loved the A-4 for that. Can't you just see the little A-4 festooned with an full ordnance load? Awesome. But, this really is a highly subjective question, dont you think?
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I just dig bears, and it's rather academic really since the force's they opposed had been chewed to pieces by the likes of F4u's, spit 22's etc. On the axis side, full operational status of Do335's & Ta 152's would make great speculative fodder, albeit the sad footnotes of allied aircrews.
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Country: | On the axis side, full operational status of Do335's & Ta 152's would make great speculative fodder, albeit the sad footnotes of allied aircrews.
The Do335 doesnt count, as it had TWO engines instead of one. The Ta-152 had performance to spare and it's generally conceded that it could outfly any Allied fighter, at any altitude.
This sort of debat is full of subjective conjecture and the jet had arrived by the end of WWII so all piston engine front-line planes were doomed to end. So, one could also make a case for something like the Yak-9. It rivaled the performance of other Allied planes and there were 17,000 of them built. They went on after the war serving in other ComBloc forces and were just one of the many planes that the Germans wore themselves out on.
Were they the "epitome" of design? Powerful, capable, rugged and cheap to build and thus available in large numbers - some might say, "Yes."
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01-26-2007, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Desert Fox I would choose the CAC CA-15 Kangaroo. It reached a top speed of 502.2 mph, and was designed entirely in the land of Oz! The RAAF scrapped it in 1950, as it thought that the cost of building P-51s under license was cheaper than building an entirely new aircraft. I had never heard of this aircraft until today, you should check it out. | Thanks for the kangaroo tip... impressive aircraft. I'll add that to my trivia lexicon. Developing a piston engine aircraft in 1950 is a bit like inventing a new buggy in 1920! | |
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Country: | The F4U-4 overall could do a lot more than the F8F and was at least equal to the Sea Fury. My vote would go to the Able Dog. | |
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