If you were a pilot in ww2 which plane would you want to fly

What plane woul you want to use going into combat


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Can't let you do that. We are going to take a lil fishing trip off-shore...
 
"... Michaelmaltby disagrees with me"
Yes ... I've faced many a reprimand from you and never a green smiley face .... seems unfair and there's no button for that
 
For Day-Fighter
  • Supermarine Spitfire: Late Merlin & Griffon Variants
    • Advantages
      • Fast by the standard of the time with a good/excellent climb-rate, and the best top-end dive-speed
      • Able to out-maneuver most all enemy aircraft
      • The late-Merlins variants could fly real high, and achieve decent ranges
      • Looks really cool
    • Disadvantages
      • Hard to land with it's skinny landing-gears
      • I'd have to learn to speak British, and all it's slang (J/K)
  • Grumman F6F Hellcat
    • Advantages
      • Docile, with good handling characteristics
      • Good rate of climb (better than the earlier Corsairs), better rate of turn than the F4U (and possibly F4F), with performance allowing it to fight against land-based planes and have a prospect of living to tell about it.
      • Nice wide-landing gears to make the already difficult job of landing a plane on a carrier deck at least a bit easier
      • Tough & rugged
      • I'm more knowledgeable about the Navy then the Army and think I'd probably look cooler in a Navy Uniform (J/K)
    • Disadvantage
      • Roll-rate seemed a bit slow
 

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