space dodo
Airman 1st Class
ah the hurricane, she was a fine old bird. I think i liked the hurricane more than the spitfire. In fact the hurricane was our (south africa's) primary fighter during wwii
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ah the hurricane, she was a fine old bird. I think i liked the hurricane more than the spitfire. In fact the hurricane was our (south africa's) primary fighter during wwiiHow about some love for the humble Hurricane. Pressed to serve a role she was never designed for. Starting off as a throwaway CAM ship fighter, and ending as the FAA's premier fighter until the Martlet and Seafire arrived.
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Sea Hurricanes produced by CC&F in Canada. I believe this is the first of only three fixed wing carrier aircraft ever produced in Canada, the others being the SB2C and postwar CP-121. Grumman Goblins and Blackburn Sharks made in Canada don't count as they were air force spec, without carrier fittings.
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I love Hurricanes, every time one even gets near us I get at least one paid day off.I'm on record for saying the Hurricane doesn't get enough love.
Imagine if a Typhoon dropped in.I love Hurricanes, every time one even gets near us I get at least one paid day off.
I'm going with the Corsair.
However, I will offer an unusual alternative, although one that never saw active service: the Boeing XF8B-1. A fascinating prototype, touted by Boeing as its "five-in-one" fighter.
And my favorite squadron...
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Only a Stuka has a scarier face for the infantryman.View attachment 627647
I don't care what anyone says, seeing that thing coming straight at you has got to be a Depends® moment, because I'm crapping my britches.
It just looks entirely about bidness. And clearly from its record, that's what it was.
Definitely agreed, both those planes have faces that could strike fear into anyone.
F4F's are fine. They were flying tanks, but if I were to choose that one, I'd do the best version...The FM2.F4F. I chose the Wildcat over the F2A because the Buffalo was mostly land based.
Agreed. Bringing us back on topic, sort of, had the tail been better secured and the Sabre more reliable, the Typhoon would have made for a good carrier fighter. But that chin scoop would have to move. Are there any accounts of the Typhoon or Tempest ditching?Something about that chin-scoop just looks evil.
The airframes were quite new, being intended as Ki 61-II fighters with an uprated engine that was even more troublesome than its progenitor, and anyway the factory producing those were destroyed. As it turned out wedding the reliable radial to the airframes produced a fighter which was easy to fly and more reliable than the higher performing fighters mostly using the not all too reliable Homare.The Ki-100 wasn't really a late war super fighter, It was simply a fortuitous melding of available engines with 3 (2?) year old, cob-web covered airframes. Post war testing done by the Allies showed that the current Japanese fighters, Ki-84 in particular, were just as competitive with Allied types.
Was the Ki-100 ever evaluated post war? its often quoted maximum speed of 360mph seems suspiciously low for an aircraft that is always held up as a formidable late war aircraft that..(From wiki) "...was able to outmanoeuvre any American fighter, including the P-51D Mustangs and Republic P-47N Thunderbolts which escorted the B-29s over Japan, and was comparable in speed, especially at medium altitudes..."The airframes were quite new, being intended as Ki 61-II fighters with an uprated engine that was even more troublesome than its progenitor, and anyway the factory producing those were destroyed. As it turned out wedding the reliable radial to the airframes produced a fighter which was easy to fly and more reliable than the higher performing fighters mostly using the not all too reliable Homare.
I think that this pleasant to fly reliable (important though that is) fighter is often rated too highly for a plane entering service in 1945. Performance wise it would not have stood head and shoulder above everything else in the battle of Britain.
There were four that the US got, all being the KI-100-1b Type 5 (FE-N312, FE-N314, FE-N315 and FE-N317)Was the Ki-100 ever evaluated post war?
Here's the Tornado. If we move the radiator to this position the Sea Typhoon should be safer to ditch.I read something by Pierre Clostermann about someone (maybe him, maybe not) ditching a Typhoon in the Channel. It went to straight to the bottom, happily enough, only 20 feet below the surface at that particular place. The pilot was able to free himself and get to the surface, but he didn't recommend the experience.