My question is…During ww2, what was in your opinion the best fighter???not pilot…I’m a luftwaffe freak…Fw-190D-9 Dora
Im a luftwaffe freak myself… Is the best was Dora-9…And possible could be the best was a Ta-152 H-1…But im back on forth…[:I]
My pick is the Me-262.
My vote goes to the P-47. Of course I am biased. [;)]
Mike
hmmmmm…you looking for best overall airframe…lets see…i think ill go with the coarsair
jim
In my opinion, the P-38 Lightning.
The Gloster Gladiator…
Just kidding…!
The P-51D Mustang.
I’d have to second Mr Sloan and go with the Lightning. Great, rugged bird.
I too would have to go with the Coarsair.
Chalk up another vote for the Corsair.
It really was the best fighter. And I got a TV series to prove it.[swg]
hi guys,
surely in terms of performance it has to be me262, fw 190 (long nose), and then p-51d…
i’m not a pilot but if i had to go into battle (god forbid), it would be in that order.
thank goodness the germans never got to make that many of those 262s!!!
SPIT IX - had a friend who flew them
I’ll have to be with Demono & Mr Sloan’s choice of the Forked Tail Devil’s the P-38
Well, there was ONE occasion when a B-17 went into a “dogfight” with some twin-engined nazi plane tailing it home (feeding info to the AAA guys) and shot it down. does this count? (yes, i’m biased! [:D]) I dunno about Der Gabelschwanz Teufel (fork tailed devil)… it had serious problems comming out of a dive (although it did get the admiral who planned the attack on pearl harbor (can’t remember his name)… I would have to say it was the P-47. it “helped” get the bomber boys into occupied europe (even though it couldn’t last very long), it was a very good close air support aircraft and it could take a LOT of punishment…
oh, and what TV series would that be, allan?
I don’t have one but two…P-51D Mustang…Corsair…
- P47 2. P51 3. P38 4. P40 [bow]
Shrikes,
I read once of a B-24 in the pacific getting into a dogfight with a Kawanshi Mavis 4 engined flying boat! The Mavis was very well armed so they had a pretty good battle. The B-24 ended up winning though. The B-24 crew even got some really good pictures of the whole thing cluminating with the Mavis losing altitude in flames.
Ive also read of a couple times that B-29s on dumbo missions would spot Japanese trawlers then go strafe them a bunch. One I read of would dive into the trawler letting the bombardier fire with the forward turrets then let the tail gunner fire on the way out. The other one I read of basically orbited the trawler and let one of the side gunners train all four turrets on the boat.
Personally I like the P-47 then P-51. While not used during the daylight much I still think the P-61 needs to be in the list too.
On edit: the admiral shot down by the P-38s was Yamamoto.
I don’t know what categories of comparison are being used to determine what is the “best” in this competion, I can only comment on what I believe to be the most versatile. My vote will go to the FW 190 series. Radial engine or inverted-V, short or long - winged, a beautifully clean design in all respects. And it looks mean.
I’ll have to go with the lightning as well…the early versions had there problems…but they got them all sorted out and they went on to be an excellent Aircraft.
On the other side of things I would have to say the Me262
aggggggggggggh…sooo many choices…you have to admit they all had there strong points…can i change my vote to all of em [:D]…thats the bad thing about beeing an airplane nut…the choices are too hard to make
jim