Best Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy) Aircraft of WW2

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you cant have enough life experience in your youth

that doesn't mean i've not got wisdom.............

 

[cheddar cheese]

i know, it means you have very little wisdom

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i have wisdom enough to get us back on topic (see the link there8))

i think the most successfull FAA aircraft was the swordfish............

 

[cheddar cheese]

that was a pretty good link 8) shame you messed it up by sayin the swordfish was the best because it wasnt, the firfly was

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

ah, that's where you're wrong, if you read it again you'll see i said it was the most successfull, not the best, so ha!!

 

[cheddar cheese]

Piss off! most successful was the Battle

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

obviously................

 

[cheddar cheese]

something we agree on

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but seriously now, i think most people will agree with the statement that the swordfish was the most successfull FAA aircraft??

 

[plan_D]

The Swordfish certainly was the most successful FAA aircraft.

 

[Lightning Guy]

Agreed. Considering the age and performance of the Stringbag, I would say that its performance was one of the great surprises of the war.

 

[cheddar cheese]

indeed 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i think it was just because they had nothing else that could do the job................

 

[Lightning Guy]

Not really. Which is why the FAA ended up using American Avengers as its primary torpedo bomber late in the war.

 

[cheddar cheese]

the topic is about best FAA aircraft though, of which the firefly walks away with the title.

 

[Lightning Guy]

The Firefly would probably be the only one that could challenge the Swordfish. But I think the Swordfish gets the edge because of its impact. Many of the most famous FAA missions of the war (Bismarck, Taranto) were purely Swordfish affairs.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and the swordfish was more manouverable than the firefly...............

 

[cheddar cheese]

it was also uglier

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the swordfish wasn't ugly

(oh god, we're gonna have erich in here saying "what sources did you use for this")...........

 

[cheddar cheese]

i didnt say it was ugly, i said it was ugliER