Recent content by F4D

Interesting. India has officially claimed that in the 1972 war its MiG-21 had only 3 encounters with the F-104 and claimed 4 kills. With a total claim of nine F-104 Kills for the whole war, and that the total number of MiG-21 kills were 6 out of a total of 18 Air to Air kills and that of the...

Interesting. India has officially claimed that in the 1972 war its MiG-21 had only 3 encounters with the F-104 and claimed 4 kills. With a total claim of nine F-104 Kills for the whole war, and that the total number of MiG-21 kills were 6 out of a total of 18 Air to Air kills and that of the...

I did not know that! Of course you can fill volumes with things I don't know. Thanks! :)

Cool! :)

Cool! :)

Vanir left? Really? Well I guess he showed this site a thing or two! Like what an ass he was...is? I just read his exchange with you FBJ. :shock: He lost me with the "MiG-21 absolutely annhiliates starfighters and dassaults of the day" thing. Didn't the early MiG-21 have a problem...

Post War to Nam? Is that what you are asking for JCS? Where to start?... F-86E and the Dog ship too MiG-17 and 19 F-100 F-102 and F-106 B-36 B-47 B-58 C-133 Mirage III (Anyone else here old enough to remember watching the '67 Six Day War on TV? I remember seeing a Mirage III spinning...

I count 69 enlisted men and 3 Officers. Ranging in age from 25ish to 45ish for the enlisted men and the Officers seem to be 40 to 55ish. Several enlisted men wear eyeglasses so I think we can rule out pilots here. From the smiles and grins on many faces it seems a happy time for them. (read...

I count 69 enlisted men and 3 Officers. Ranging in age from 25ish to 45ish for the enlisted men and the Officers seem to be 40 to 55ish. Several enlisted men wear eyeglasses so I think we can rule out pilots here. From the smiles and grins on many faces it seems a happy time for them. (read...

Wow! This is hard! In no particular order I like, P-38 P-40 P-47 P-51 Spitfire FW-190 Mosquito Yak-9 Ki-84 F6F

I was reading "U.S. Navy Fighters of WWII" by Barrett Tillman and Robert L. Lawson and found this interesting. They quote a Grumman test pilot named Corwin "Corky" Meyer with the following comment on the conventional wisdom on the F4U and F6F speed specifications. " The bent-wing had a...

My bad! I was thinking of the TBD and the Defiant when I wrote that. :oops: Look at the record of the Finnish Ace Eino Juuttilainen with the Buffalo (34 of his 94) and Aleksandr Pokryshkin of the Soviet Union with the P-39 (45 of his 59). The Finn faced 22 different fighter types built by...

It did fall short of many of the design specs I listed but was a great bird. I would have liked to have seen the Ki-83 go beyond the test phase. It could have been something. Oh well... jets did them all in anyway. :(

The Dragon And His Tail" Was that a formation ship? May not be the correct term for it. I know that in WW-2 the US used brightly painted ships to get a bomber group in formation before sending them on the mission. The formation ship returned to base when the group was on its way. I don't see...

Well as it seems that this thread is with qualifying guideline's yet. I propose that the worst plane was one that crashed landed or just crashed every-time it took to the air and was very underpowered. That being any glider aircraft used in the war. :lol: JUST KIDDING! I think you will...