Best Jet of WW2?

[Andrew]

I will have to vote for the ME262, although I hate to say it, the ME262 was a much better fighter than the Gloucester Meteor.

 

[cheddar cheese]

nope its still the arado for me 8) ( i know it aint a fighter btw )

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i still like the meteor...............

 

[cheddar cheese]

i find it quite patriotic that the lanc only really like british planes, apart from the naval fighters obviously and the tank busters, but his favourite plane in every other category is british (i think) 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

brittish, does that include northern irish planes

but the fact that most of my favourite are brittish wasn't planned, it was just that we made the best planes of the war...............

 

[cheddar cheese]

i wouldnt say the best planes

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

most of the best.............

 

[cheddar cheese]

nope, i still disagree

 

[Lightning Guy]

Of the jets that saw combat it's gotta be the Me-262, hands down. Now if the Gotha Go-229 got into action . . . 4 x 30mm, 600+ mph speed, and a limited about of stealth . . . it would have been the best of the war.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but as with many german projects, they weren't as good as they said they were, allot of them were made to sound better for propergander..............

 

[cheddar cheese]

no but the go. 229 nearly made it, it would have seen service had the war not ended when it did 8)

 

[Lightning Guy]

So let's be thankful the war ended when it did. It would be another 6 or 7 years til the Allies had anything that could have matched the Go. 229.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but even if the Go.229 had entered service during the way, it would have been to late to change anything..................

 

[Lightning Guy]

Would it have changed anything? Probably not. Would it have killed a lot of Allied airmen? Probably so.

 

[brad]

meteor

 

[plan_D]

So, it doesn't really matter if the plane had come in or not, because we'd have still won it when we did. There were many things that the Germans had that we stopped with ending the war, now if the Germans had got their A10 ICBM into action New York would have been having their own experiences of German rockets...

 

[brad]

meteor rules

 

[Lightning Guy]

There were several piston engined fighters that could have outrun the early versions of the Meteor. The speed of the Me-262 was decisive. A Post-war Meteor might have been a match for a 262, but what would the German jet have been like if it had an extra 3-4 years of development?

 

[cheddar cheese]

i reckon that if the 262 had continued after the war, it would have officially reached 600mph before the meteor did and could have been developed into a mightily effective fighter, once they had sorted out the stability problems 8)

 

[Lightning Guy]

Exactly my point. The 262 was the best jet fighter of the war and would have held onto that title after the war if had received the same development time that the Meteor did.