Save that for a best jet thread. There is allready one but I think it might be dead.
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The poll wasn't 'Best Twin Piston Engined Fighter"..
where is the 262?????
That sums it up right there....P-38's record makes it unquestionably the best wartime twin. Clearly the most effective, all around twin engine fighter.
Second comes Mosquito. Used in plethora of figher roles: day and night fighter, long range escort and intrude.
Sentimental favourite is the Whirlwind. A nasty combination of too many foward looking ideas and a bad engine choice and poor fuel plumbing, barring it from long range missions, doomed it.
If they'd built the proposed Whirlwind Mk II, with the uprated Peregrines running on 100 octane, 40% more fuel, cross feed fuel system and larger Hamilton high activity props, it could of been escorting RAF bombers to Lower Saxony, the Rhine and other important production areas in Germany by the end of 1942.
as a dutchman, I'd vote the Fokker G.I of course, but hey, it's not here
1. P-38 Lightning
2. de Havilland Mosquito
3. Junkers Ju 88
4. Heinkel He 219 Uhu
5. Bristol Beaufighter
6. P-61 Blackwidow
7. Westland Whirlwind
8. Messerschmitt Bf 110
9. Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse
10. Nakajima J1N "Irving"
11. Kawasaki Ki 45 Toryu "Nick"
12. Focke Wulf Ta 154 Moskito
13. Dornier Do 335
14. Arado Ar 240
15. Focke Wulf Fw 187 Falke
as a dutchman, I'd vote the Fokker G.I of course, but hey, it's not here
I didn't vote for the P-38 cause it's American.... It's simply the best daylight, twin engined fighter.
Seriously compared to the best up there the G.I was not the best and I think voting for something only because of nationality is pretty lame, but I added it for you.
Just because of the 110's work as a nightfighter. I think that it was more successful at that than the 410 was as a dayfighter. And as you said O' Enlighted One, 335 etc... never flew any combat missions....How do you rank the 110 above the 410, 335, and 187. Granted the 335 and 187 never flew any combat ops but still.
Just because of the 110's work as a nightfighter. I think that it was more successful at that than the 410 was as a dayfighter. And as you said O' Enlighted One, 335 etc... never flew any combat missions....
But hey, I can be less right. Because I'm never wrong.....
I'm really sorry if you take it that way Adler. It is NOT meant to be as mock or anything else in that way, not at all. I'm "saying" that with the outmost felt respect etc, since you know a lot more about aviation etc than I do. Like old days pupils called their teachers Master you know. Sorry Adler.Please knock it off with with the O' Enlightened One. To me that is mocking and I dont appreciate it...
i vote for the do-335 because is looks great and if it been operationel it beat all of the lists twin engined fighters