Hawker and Sidney Camm, and Supermarine and R.J.Mitchell (unfortunately dead before he could see how brilliant his design was), kept Britain in the war with their superb aircraft during one of the country's most difficult times, the Battle of Britain. In my opinion they were the best aeroplane...
I agree with both these points but about the spitfire production, i did mean before that method of construction was achieved. sorry about the confusion
'On 23 June, 1942, Luftwaffe Pilot Oberleutnant Arnim Faber erroneously landed his Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-3 fighter at RAF Pembrey, apparently having mistaken this airfield for a Luftwaffe channel coast airfield. The British were thereby presented with a working example of the Fw 190 fighter, which...
"Reaching Newchurch airfield at 480 mph I held "RB" down to 20 ft from the runway and then pulled her up to a 60 ° climb holding it as the speed dropped slowly off and the altimeter needle spun round the dial as if it were mad. At 7000 ft the speed was dropping below 180 mph and I rolled the...
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the D.H. Hornet/Sea Hornet, with very high speed, high firepower (4 20 mm cannon), incredible manuverability and could land on a carrier.
By the way, am i correct in believing that the Sea fury was the first piston engine aircraft to take down a mig-15?
This it may be the best of the war, but the Sea Fury must be the best piston fighter ever. It could be used in ground attack, was blisteringly fast (at up to 460mph, arguably the fastest single engined plane ever, with a piston engine) and could have taken on anything that came from WW2, many of...
I think it was an RAF spitfire pilot, but i cant remember his name. i'll get back to you.
he got a particular nickname as a result and i think he was used in some morale boosting (propaganda) material.
Just out of interest, does anyone know how many intercepting aircraft were shot down during the whole war on all fronts by bombers shooting back?
Also, which bombers were statisticaly the best armed (how many planes did they shoot down, for every loss of their own caused by an intercepter or...