Best transporter

[plan_D]

They were used in times when air superiority hadn't yet been achieved. That's why...

 

[cheddar cheese]

yup, the sm.81 was faster and it had a higher ceiling

 

[Lightning Guy]

Yeah, like I said, the fault of the Germans and not the Ju-52. I was just saying it's hard to overlook loses like that.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the C-47 wins easily, the 52 second.....................

 

[cheddar cheese]

sm.81 3rd...

 

[plan_D]

Agreed. C-46, fourth

 

[Lightning Guy]

That would be a pretty good line up. I think though that the C-46 would have been higher if more had been built.

 

[plan_D]

Yes, but unfortunately they weren't built in high numbers. Why is that?

 

[Lightning Guy]

Well, Curtis was a manufacture kinda on its way out. It spent alot of effort churning out P-40s and Helldivers and I imagine that ate up alot of its production capacity. Additionally, the fabulous success of the C-47 probably had something to do with it.

 

[plan_D]

I suppose the C-47 was the main reason, I mean they could have moved C-46 production elsewhere. Why have two transports?

 

[Lightning Guy]

Well America did like to have redundancy . . . B-17 and B-24, B-25 and B-26, P-38 and P-47 and P-51. I know they all managed to find their own little roles but they all did the same basic mission.

 

[plan_D]

In different places. And as you said with different missions, most of them were two or more role planes anyway.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the C-47 looks better than the C-46 IMO.............

 

[Lightning Guy]

You are right there. It also had the better service record, which is why we all agreed that the C-47 was the best transport plane of the war.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

so is this topic dead now???

 

[cheddar cheese]

nope lets talk about the SM.81 for a bit ooo on the subject of savoia-marchettis, does anyone have a picture of an SM.85

 

[plan_D]

The C-46 was actually better though, wasn't it? The C-47 has more of a record though, so it obviously had the bigger effect.

 

[Lightning Guy]

The C-46 could carry more but the C-47 had a longer range. The C-46 had a higher top speed but the C-47 actually cruised faster.

 

[plan_D]

Amazing, really...

 

[Lightning Guy]

The sources I've been able to check show the C-47 cruised about 2mph faster which isn't much until you consider that the C-46's top speed was 40mph faster.