Best Naval Fighter

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Glad to see an actual discussion about WWII aircraft going on. If we are going to allow aircraft designed during WWII but not seeing action (like the F7F) then the winner is the F8F no contest. The A7M might have been a possibility but it still lacked the speed at climb of the F8F.
 
Welcome back, LG. The F8F is a real climber. It will go from a full brake stop to 10,000 feet in 96 seconds! We have one in our museum and it is quite a sight to see it take off and climb. It is quick too. The drawback is that it only carries 2 hours of fuel, so you have to stop often. On ferry flights to air shows, you can land, fuel and just give it some military power to catch up with the rest of the group.
 
It would have been a real killer, that's for sure. It was designed to get off the deck and go after the Kamikaze's before they got to the ships. I guess that role kind of went out at the end of the war. But it did adapt well in Korea.
 


I've read about one jap plane. I think it was called the Ki-100. It was an improved model of the Hien. It supposedly gave the hellcat and corsair a run for their money.
 
Ki-100 was strickly land-based. And so was the Shiden. Yeah I know there was a carrier-based fighter in the works, but it never flew. The list of naval fighters that actually saw service is remarkably short to post a top five list since there were only three countries in the world with carriers . . . and one couldn't develop a true carrier aircraft to save its life.
 



Ki-100 - late-war radial engined development of the Ki-61, which is soon to become flyable in PF...
 
soory, my mistake with the shiden, i've done that before, i just automatically think of naval aircraft when thinking of the japs........
 
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