Hey all!!![:D]
In response to F4Ufan’s recent poll, Here’s a good one 4 all you WW2 fighter buffs out there: Which was the best all-around fighter, the Spitfire or the Mustang[?]
Lancaster_lover
[8D]Bandit’s!!! 12 O’Clock High!!!
Which mark and mod. there is a lot of territory there. ANY Mustang (including the A-26) would kill a .303 armed Spitfire. The aircraft speeds, roll rates, etc. were comperable so it would probably boil down to pilot ability.
Each had its merits, the spit had its manouverability, the stang its speed, the spit its development potential, the stang its firepower, the spit its ease to fly, the stang its range…i could go on but need i?..Gregers
I don’t care…
I would take the P-47 over either of them ! [:D]
Jim
It’s a bit unfair to compare them… Both had different purposes and were build/designed/used accordingly. They also were of different ages. I know a few years appears to be nothing nowadays when an aircraft can easily go into 10 years of development before being accepted in service, then spend half a century being continuously updated for new type of missions, but in times of war, like WWII, development was on a higher gear and a couple of years could mean differences between something decent and something really good. Just check out what the USAAF had in its arsenal in 1941, and what it had in 1943.
The Spit would not have done long-range escort over the Reich. It was not meant for that. But it did marvellously well over England in 1940. Probably the P-51 would have done better against Me-109E, Stukas and He-111, but it was not available there and then.
two British designs both had the same engine
silly question anyway