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Just wanted to see if people here played the amazing (yet sometimes amazingly frustrating) game. Just a little discussion here about it, considering its about WWII planes.

Can modern air cooled inline engines compete with the water cooled engines of WWII? Perhaps there are no modern engines of those ratings being produced, if that is the case, then could modern air cooled technology produce engines competitive with water cooled engines of WWII?

What impact would it have?

Just top of my heid here..... With all the technology around today, does the achievement of becoming an 'ace' carry the same....I don't know, does the word carry with it, the same glory, as it did, or does, in WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam?

1/48 Ilyushin IL-2 Stormovik - Winter War / Eastern Front WWII Username: donivanp First name: Don Category: Intermediate Scale: 1/48 Manufacturer: Accurate Miniatures Kit 3409 Model Type: IL-2 Straight wing single seat with skis Aftermarket addons: OOB no after market.

Dixon Man Builds B-17 Bomber Replica Click on the link for a video DIXON (WIFR) -- A Dixon man is recreating history... one sheet of metal at a time. And after nearly 15 years, his handmade WWII replica is starting to take shape. "I've had a lot of fun. Kept me out of a lot of trouble,"...

Hi, We found this photo while gutting our new house. Such an amazing piece of American history and we would love to find out anything more we can. A search of the tail number: 299193 did not turn anything up.

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I recently became aware of some guys in Michigan who are looking to recover and restore a B-25 Mitchell bomber that crash-landed into a Sandbar near Fairbanks, Alaska in 1969. It's a pretty interesting story, and they've started a Kickstarter campaign for funding, too. They are looking to...

Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Tinker's Heritage" at the Tinker Air Force Base Airpark in Oklahoma City, OK

B-25 Mitchell "Yellow Rose" at Tyler Texas Pounds Regional Airport

Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian Museum, Dulles Airport, near Washington, D.C.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar" at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio

Wiki quotes the B-26G as 287 mph top speed and 216 as average cruise. I call shenanigans, seeing as the Marauder was frequently referred to as one of the fastest medium bombers in the war (to the point where it was considered a hard target for interception by the IJAF/IJN) and 287 mph would put...

Anti-submarine warfare, rescue, recon, transport.... flying boats may have been slow and vulnerable, but they stayed relevant throughout WWII in almost every theater and over a decade afterward in a number of militaries. Which one was the best? Place your vote here!

It seemed like a perfect weapon for AA applications. Good rate of fire (Model 1917 from WWI was capable of 1600+ RPM from two barrels), mechanically reliable and had built in redundancy (if one side of the siamesed pair had a malfunction the other side would keep going). Also considering...

Something interesting I found about a superlong Qantas overwater flight from West Australia to Pakistan... have a newfound respect for the capabilities of the PBY and also for their crews' navigational skill and endurance. From Wiki: In 1943, Royal Australian Air Force personnel were seconded...

The strategic bombers and fighters get more attention but overall considering all the important roles they were involved in I think medium bombers were my favorite aircraft class of WWII. I'm going with the A-26 Invader. Sure it was introduced to the war late, but it was a great aircraft...