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

[pops-paolo]

There is a fellow poster who loves the P-39, there is a thread with over 1,700 posts about it, somewhere along the line we got on the tangent of calling it a ground hog instead of a airacobra. So now, when a P-39 is mentioned outside of that thread it's a groundhog penalty. BTW, I just made up the last part about the penalty.

lamo that went over my head

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

 

[XBe02Drvr]

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Hey Stumpalumpacas, your true identity comes out! Looks like you've been masquerading under a false callsign all along.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Hey Stumpalumpacas, your true identity comes out! Looks like you've been masquerading under a false callsign all along.

Be vewy, vewy quiet ... we're hunting gwoundhogs!

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Be vewy, vewy quiet ... we're hunting groudhogs!

Nah, they're deafened by 12.7 and 37 MM fire with no hearing protection, plus they're high on cordite fumes. We can walk right up behind and execute them with our Makarovs. What's the challenge in that?

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Nah, they're deafened by 12.7 and 37 MM fire with no hearing protection, plus they're high on cordite fumes. We can walk right up behind and execute them with our Makarovs. What's the challenge in that?

... until they spin right down out of your sight-picture!

 

[AdamR]

The question forces one to pick an airplane that's either a compromise (P-51) between low and high altitude performance, superior at neither, or superior at one and inferior at the other (P-47 high; F-4u low, for me). I took the P-47 for its combination of ruggedness, firepower, and speed at high altitude.
Sheer coolness choice? P-38.

 

[Peter Gunn]

Be vewy, vewy quiet ... we're hunting gwoundhogs!

WARNING! You're close to time in the box kid, watch what you type...

 

[rochie]

Probably a P-51, nearly as pretty and nearly as good as a Spitfire but it could be nearly as good for 5 times as long on a full tank of fuel

 

[SaparotRob]

I had chosen the Mosquito so I could bravely run away.

 

[Marcel]

There is a fellow poster who loves the P-39, there is a thread with over 1,700 posts about it, somewhere along the line we got on the tangent of calling it a ground hog instead of a airacobra. So now, when a P-39 is mentioned outside of that thread it's a groundhog penalty. BTW, I just made up the last part about the penalty.

P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39

 

[GrauGeist]

P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39

Oh now you've done it...

 

[Marcel]

Oh now you've done it...

You think the circus will move here?

 

[GrauGeist]

You think the circus will move here?

Dunno, but you're likely to get a timeout from the Sarge for mentioning that Bell product!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

 

[XBe02Drvr]

P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39

FOUL! He's flaunting his privileged Mod status! If any of us Rocker peons did that we'd be incarcerated in a flash!

 

[Marcel]

FOUL! He's flaunting his privileged Mod status! If any of us Rocker peons did that we'd be incarcerated in a flash!

Absolutely true

 

[Peter Gunn]

P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39, P-39

The only thing I can say is that you're EXTREMELY lucky I don't generally visit the forum on weekends, however...

A penalty this flagrant might get you a season long suspension with attending monetary fines!!!

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Bumping my original response....

ASW Patrol, SAR, Key West NAS flying a JRF-5 "Grumman Goose."

Debrief at "Sloppy Joe's."

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Bumping my original response....

ASW Patrol, SAR, Key West NAS flying a JRF-5 "Grumman Goose."

Debrief at "Sloppy Joe's."



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I don't see an airplane in that picture, bud.