Favourite 5 Aircraft (all eras allowed)

[the lancaster kicks ass]

my mistake............

 

[cheddar cheese]

What, another one? You never cease to amaze me.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

 

[delcyros]

Nice list!

mine are:

Me-163 B Komet (!)
Ho-VI (all areas allowed! By far THE BEST glider plane of it´s time)Bistol Beaufighter
P-40 E Warhawk (think of it as a poor mens Spit)
I.A.R 81

 

[cheddar cheese]

IAR 81 is a cool plane! 8) As is the P-40, the Beaufighter and the Komet! 8)

 

[wmaxt]

So Many to choose from:

WWII

P-38
B-25
Corsair/fw-190
P-51/Spitfire
B-29

All Time

P-38
SR-71
F-15
B-29
20 others

Hard to pick they change esp. planes I'm still learning about and that list exceeds 20 in WWII alone - so there! Sorry about the bias but I'm still learning.

 

[cheddar cheese]

I know what you mean, picking favourites is extremely difficult. Over the last couple of days ive been looking at the F-22 and I now like that hugely.

Here are my current lists...

WW2

1) P.108
2) P-38
3) Fw-190 D
4) Fw-190 A
5) Re-2005


All time

1) P.108
2) B-52
3) P-38
4) Fw-190 D
5) F-22 Raptor

 

[wmaxt]

I know what you mean, picking favourites is extremely difficult. Over the last couple of days ive been looking at the F-22 and I now like that hugely.

Here are my current lists...

WW2

1) P.108
2) P-38
3) Fw-190 D
4) Fw-190 A
5) Re-2005


All time

1) P.108
2) B-52
3) P-38
4) Fw-190 D
5) F-22 Raptor

I just wanted to mention that Jeff Ethell wrote an article for Flight Journel Magazine that is availably on line at the Flight journal web site on the P-38.
It's under the great planes listing. When you read it remember Jeff has flown many of the WWII contemporaries including the P-51, and others (I don't have the complete list). Jeff died latter while flying the same P-38 because he left the fuel selector on the reduced size reserve fuel tanks (40gal instead of 60gal) and ran out on final without altitude or speed to trade for time to fix it.

 

[toffigd]

Here are mine:

1) P.11c
2) P-39
3) Ju-87
4) B-24
5) MiG-21MF

 

[ju-390]

1) 737
2) ju-88
3) b17
4) p51
5) ju-390
in that order

 

[mosquitoman]

1. Mosquito
2. Beaufighter
3. Typhoon/Tempest
4. Shackleton
5. Canberra

 

[cheddar cheese]

Here are mine:

1) P.11c
2) P-39
3) Ju-87
4) B-24
5) MiG-21MF

Ah nice list, no arguments there! 8)

wmaxt, ill check that out! Thanks!

8)

 

[toffigd]

Arguments cheddar? ok

1) P.11c - best Polish fighter before the war, extremely manouverable, although P.11c was outclassed in Sept. 1939 by Bf 109, Polish pilots managed to shot down over 120 German planes. It's also a beautiful upper-wing fighter (the so called "seagull-wing")
2) P-39 - honestly, I have no idea why do I like this plane so much. I think it's something in the way it looks like.
3) Ju-87 - one of the deadliest bombers of war. If anyone ever read Hans Ulrich Rudel book, than he know what do I mean. Also good looking "W" wing.
4) B-24 - my favourite heavy bomber, produced in the highest amount of all heavies.
5) MiG-21MF - flying legend , I've seen them so many times over Polish coast (they are being in use of 1st Naval Fighter Squadron in Gdynia Babie-Doly), that I fell in love It had to be here, every airshow i've seen included MiG-21. It's a huge part of history of Polish Air Force.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

1. Mosquito
2. Beaufighter
3. Typhoon/Tempest
4. Shackleton
5. Canberra

very very nice list, big fan of the canberra myself............

 

[mosquitoman]

Thanks, what about the Shackleton aswell-I've heard of it being called 10,000 rivets in close formation!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

shackleton looks good but it's more maritime recon than a bomber........

 

[mosquitoman]

Maritime Recon is good, the B-24 was in the running for my top 5 because of how good it was at sub hunting

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you're a maritime patrol man then?? we don't get many of them..........

 

[mosquitoman]

That and bombers, why do you think my favourite plane's the Mosquito MkXVIII?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you find the 6pdr strangely arousing??