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The question that we never really got answered Can a Good TWIN ENGINE fighter match a Good SINGLE ENGINE fighter ?????? The closest we got was the P-38L. Sadly we never got to see it against quality opposition No doubt it was devastating when it had a clear performance advantage against...

Well it might not have changed the result to much. Considering the P-51D being a High altitude escort was more likely flying down hill against the Germans rather than Up hill. In which case no one ever doubts the P51's Dive or Zoom climb performance. Still would have helped the A-36 in the early...

Interesting reading North American's Lightweight Mustangs (P-51H/P-51M/P-51L) Sounds like Edgar Schmeud wasn't to happy with his P51's climb rate compared to the spitfire I know the P51B/C wasn't bad in that area, but the Heavy D model suffered. A shame because if this plane came...

Are there any other challengers to the Griffon Spitfires and Sabre Typhoon from a Western perspective ??? As far as a Low level interceptor I cannot think of any other plane in this Period Maybe the A-36 was fast but didn't have much of a climb rate. P-51B didn't see service until later in...

Man that is just crazy! Aircraft Designers in WW2 where bringing incredible improvements to aircraft designs in just such a short period of time (1939-45). There was always going to be a long list of mistakes if your trying to achieve something that has never been done before. I wonder how...

Yes I agree, even without laminar flow this plane should be fast. But really this fast ??? Well I'm not really doubting the Germans had planes close to equal performance by 1944 I really chose the Fw 190 A8 (early model) to make a point To me that model had the same big engines producing...

It's making a bit more sense now Got my weight figures from wiki, I should have looked a bit deeper

I cannot figure it out Under 10 000ft nothing could touch this thing! So let's compare it with say a FW-190 A8 LA-7 14 cyl 41 lt radial 1700hp vs FW-190 A8 14 cyl 41 lt radial 1700hp LA-7 weight 3500kg vs FW-190 A8 weight 3500kg So unless the La-7 has a huge Aerodynamic Advantage...

The P-51 would have to be mentioned It was an aerodynamic master piece. Not just the Laminar flow wings, but also excellent Meredith effect radiator ducts and carburetor duct Add Excellent construction quality, flush sheet metal, no paint and Fully Flush covering wheel wells and you start to...

Well if this thread was started in 1984, I would have voted for the Dominican Air Force They had P-51d's in active service. That aircraft could turn inside all those mentioned above :)

Not that I don't agree on some of your points But I wonder if North American had much more capacity left to supply large numbers of P51s for the PTO in 1945 I mean wouldn't the plants be flat out producing the 51s for the ETO, replacing the 47s there I think Republic would have had that...

I agree with the P-38 twin engined advantages But does anyone here have any figures to back it up. I mean I always thought the P-38 would do well against flak. But someone here posted a losses to flak chart which has it as only middle of the road survivibility, a guess due to its large target...

I forgot the obvious :oops: It would have been very interesting to see how the B-29 would have gone over Berlin. Would the Luftwaffe be able to intercept it? Just how effective are those remote guns? Was the B-29 as rugged as the the B-17? Just how many would the USAF be willing to lose...

I am not sure what your getting at? Are you saying licence build Lancasters Lincolns in the U.S? Anyway hypothetically, I have allways felt that 3 aircraft the U.S should have licence build was the early Spifires/Mosquito and Lancaster The Lancaster gave you some thing different to the...

I always wondered why they never went push/pull for bombers..now I know.