Hmm... tough choice really. Depended on which front and at which point in the war. Love the 109 series, love the P-38 and P-51...
Probably have to go with Axis though. That Gustav is calling too strongly. :twisted:
LoL, I was definitely in the minority saying "Tempest" wasn't I...
Still stand by it though, as far as combining overall speed, climb rate, maneuverability (not the best turner out there, but decent and rolls pretty well) and knock-down punch goes.
190D9 would be second.
Despite my...
Only in a2a, both the 4th and 56th beat them in combined a2a and ground kills. 4th also lost fewer pilots and aircraft despite being in action 16 months longer. Don't know the stats on the 56th.
And on this topic, of course I'm liable to be a bit biased, my grandfather did serve under...
Can't believe Zemke and Blakeslee aren't choices. Guys who led the 2 most successful USAAF units and each ran up a respectable score of their own.
Heck, Blakeslee fought for over 3 years non-stop before finally being ordered out of combat and sent home.
Blakeslee would be my choice. Zemke...
I've added your site to my favorties, very nice work.
Don't suppose you could ever get a formation shot of Man-o-War and Red Dog XII together could you? :rolleyes:
Man I can't wait fir GML this fall, gotta get a good camera.
I'll have to go through my old magazine stacks, but I'm pretty sure theres an article or two from "Air Classics" in the '90s which had the B-17E. I seem to recall one having been found pretty intact in a junkyard, and another issue with a photo spread of early-model 'Forts.
I'll give it a...
How about "plane you wish had gotten into combat quicker or more smoothly".
As much of a 4th FG devotee as I am, I still wonder what the 56th could have done with the P-47M if they hadn't had such long lasting teething issues with it. Outstanding plane, what might they have accomplished if...
I didn't even know they still had a show there, they should advertise or something. And not just the weekend before like they used to do for the Batavia shows.
Just about every other show in Upstate has either gone bye-bye or never has any warbirds at it. Haven't been to a show that had any...
Ok, if you want specifics, either a P-51B (with birdcage, not Malcom Hood) in Duane Beesons Olive Drab/Gray "Bee", or Ralph Hofers OD upper/bare metal Malcom-Hood equipped "Salem Representative" with D-Day stripes.
Rest were more for novelty/utility, but the B-Pony is the dream one for me :)
I've got a few P-51s on my "to-do" list (about 2 dozen to be exact), I'm looking for suggestions on the best (read- easy and consistent) way to do a bare-metal finish on a 1/48 scale model. I usually do OD/Gray paintjobs, but most of these ones are later-war ones that are NMF.
I've tried...
Old thread, but the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, PA is much closer to Pittsburg than Dayton Ohio. And they have a P-61 Black Widow theiy're rebuilding.
Legend says Ralph Hofer was shot down by Erich Hartmann, but since "The Kidd" went down over Hungary and Jg-52 was flying over Romania at the time, I don't really buy it, though Hofer was in fact the only 8th AAF ace to go down in a2a combat and not to ground fire.
I also don't buy it for the...
Don't buy it. Smacks of John Lowell's "I fought Adolph Galland to a draw in the first P-38L (which happened to have a "special" pack of 6 MGs in the nose) 6 months before any other P-38L got to Europe in an abandoned mineshaft" BS to me.