5 Favourite Planes

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The Spitfire was the only aircraft that was effectively able to dogfight the Zero...the American aircraft were excellent aircraft, using from the P.40 on, a 'dive slash' technique, having greater altitude ability...Zeros were extremely nimble, and deadly to dogfight, as were their other good models, but the Spitfire, mostly the Mk.VIII tackled them, and also the later Marks as they came on line later in the War...The Mk.XIV is my favourite too...they called it ' the engine with wings '....
 
Mk. XIV was a good plane. But the American planes were more than capable of dogfighting the Zero at high speed. And the great Lightning aces in the Pacific managed to shoot down several Japanese planes in turning dogfights.
 
Gemhorse said:
Zeros were extremely nimble, and deadly to dogfight, as were their other good models, but the Spitfire, mostly the Mk.VIII tackled them, and also the later Marks as they came on line later in the War...
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I know a funny fact about the Mk. VIII (I've written it in the "Remark" section of the Spitfire Mk. IX database). It's told as follow:

"The Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX was developped in 1942 to face the new German treath: the FW-190. It may sounds a bit weird, but the Mk. IX was the result of a "manufacturing error". In 1942, the British High Command decided to completely re-draw the Spitfire to finaly create the Mark VIII. But when the production began, they realised that the new frame was taking more time to build than the new engine! Like they were in desperate need of this new craft, they took the old Mark V frame and installed the new engine inside it, creating the Mark IX. After a little while, they realised that the Mk. IX was surpassing the new Mk. VIII. So they almost abandoned the roduction of the Mk. VIII and started the mass production of the Mk. IX. So in a sense, the Mk. VIII was surpassed by the Mk. IX before it could get out of the factory!"

I know, may be you'll call me idiot, but I like the old Mk. IX.
 

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A lot of pilots thought that the Mk.IX was the "best all-around" Spitfire of the war. I know the latter Mk. XIV had better performance but that was achieved by more power which was starting to take its toll on the Spit's handling.
 
I put it on here. I did a top five choosing from different nations.

1. P-38 Lightning
2. Ki-84 Frank
3. Fw-190D-9
4. Spit. XIV
5. La-7

Althought I'm not totally sure on the order. There are very few planes from WWII that I don't feel some sense of affection for so this is tough for me.
 
same here, my list is always changing, at the moment its:

1. Hawker Hurricane
2. Piaggio P.108
3. Lockheed P-38 Lightning
4. Messerschmit Bf-109
5. Bell P-39 Airacobra

8)
 
So my list is:

1) Spitfire Mk XIV
2) DH Mosquito
3) B-24
4) Me-262 'Swallow'
5) FW-190
 
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