Best Aircraft in Many Different Roles Part II

[Nonskimmer]

Oh what the hell. I love it too.
Nice heart CC.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

FORGOT SOMETHING!

 

[cheddar cheese]

MEAN MACHINE!

 

[FLYBOYJ]

8)

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Nice touch with the shark mouth. If I had been a Storch pilot in WW2 I would have painted vicous scharks teeth on my Storch just so I coud feel mean and watch the enemy laugh......And then shoot them with my pistol!

 

[Nonskimmer]

Yeah, that'd work!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

With the slow stall speed you would have plenty of time to aim at them.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Why not just use the Storch's own MG?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

More fun with a P-38 pistol!

 

[cheddar cheese]

More fun with a P-38 plane equipped with rockets

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The pistol would be more personal and more fun, plus the Storchs MG was rear firing.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes CC the single MG in the storch fired upwards and backwards on a flxible mount to provide some protection from attack, she had no forward firing armourment, unless you fire a pistol out the window.......

 

[trackend]

Right Ive gone through all my lists and this is the final tally on the different rolls of the Stringbag
Torpedo plane
Dive bomber
Long range Mine layer
AWS rocket and depth charge
Radar reconnaissance
Sea plane reconnaissance
Scout and target illumination
Smoke layer
Passenger transport (admittedly only 4)

It may not have been the best in any of its rolls but it must come out fairly high on the list for versatility

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

You are right she was a verstatile aircraft.

 

[P38 Pilot]

I agree with mosquito man. It has to be the De havlineo Mosquito! Srry abut the spelling though. When it was first created, it served as a reconnasaince aircraft, then it became a fighter, then a fighter-bomber, and before they new it the aircraft outclassed the Supermarine SpitfireVI! I say that this aircraft had to be the best of the best! But since im an American i think the second best would have too be the Northrop P-62 Black Widow.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yet you forgot about the fact it was the P-38 that was better than both, even though you seem to have a P-38 fetish 8)

 

[plan_D]

I don't understand what the big deal is about the Mosquito being 'superior' to the Spitfire VI. The Spitfire VI could fly higher and was a better dogfighter than the Mosquito, simply the Spitfire VI was an uprated Spitfire V to intercept the German Ju86P-1 bombers.

The Mosquito was definately more versatile than the Spitfire. It was a better bomber as well but the Spitfire PR.I, IX and XIX took more pictures of Europe than the Mosquito.

 

[mosquitoman]

Roles of a Mosquito:
Photo-Recconaissance
Fighter-Bomber
Night Fighter
Bomber
Weather Recconaissance
Mine Layer
Fast Transport (people could be taken in the bomb bay)
Cargo ship (products from Sweden put in the bomb bay)
Anti-Ship
Anti-Sub
Target Marker

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

tut tut, you're making the mossie look bad, this is more like it.......

roles of a mossie:
Air Ambulance
Day fighter
Day fighter-bomber
Day intruder
Day bomber (which includes dive bombing, skip bombing and level bombing)
Fighter reconnaissance
Photo Recon
Interceptor
Long range escort
Tank buster
Night fighter
Night intruder
Night bomber
Night fighter-bomber
Target marker
Target tug
Anti-shipping
Anti-Tirpitzing (which IS different to anti-shipping)
Convoy protection
Dual seat/control trainer
Mine layer
Anti-submarine patrol
High altitude bomber
High altitude fighter
High altitude photo recon
Naval target tug
Torpedo fighter
Carrier born torpedo fighter
Carrier born recon fighter
Carrier born strike fighter
High speed mail plane
Long range civil transport with provision for sleeping
Radio jamming and countermeasures

 

[cheddar cheese]

All of which the P-38 could do, except anti Tirpitzing cos thats BS As well as float plane, and one of the first planes to have in flight refuelling experimented on with it. And I still havent seen anything as to Mosquitos being used as regular fighters or interceptors