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Yep - and I take offense at dumbasses like yourself coming on our forum brand new and showing your stupidity in your first 2 or 3 posts. Go sit in a corner for 6 months until you figure out how to pull your head out of your ass and then you could come back and try again.Who cares? Most people need to get their aircraft right!! Sheesh! People take offense at ANYTHING these days !
That made me laugh out loud VB....and the stupid shall be punished.
Nice shotin' FB.
Well, that didn't take long, did it.
Nope, a 6 post wonder, done and gone! I am in a way thankful for guys like him, they give proof that although I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, I am far from the dullest!
You also get the same results going to the state fair!
Glad you resurrected this thread.In my opinion, the P-36 is better, but unfortunately it did not have continuous development like the Wildcat.
As for the P-35, I don't think it should even be on this list.
I think the P-43, which is a development of the P-35, would be more plausible.
They found the P-43 could not get out of a spin. There is an article I posted about that.I think the P-43, which is a development of the P-35, would be more plausible.
They found the P-43 could not get out of a spin. There is an article I posted about that.
The Wildcat had a two stage supercharger going for it, which ironically was rejected as a result of the XP-41, which showed it to be inferior to the turbo used in the P-43 prototype.
I agree with your choice. Definitely the Wildcat. It was the blue paint.
The P-39 had post-stall problems IF THE NOSE AMMO BAYS WERE NOT EITHER LOADED OR DID NOT HAD WEIGHTS IN THEM. The spin recovery problem with the P-43 seems to have been permanently broken.The P-39 also didn't come out of a spin.
The P-39 had post-stall problems IF THE NOSE AMMO BAYS WERE NOT EITHER LOADED OR DID NOT HAD WEIGHTS IN THEM. The spin recovery problem with the P-43 seems to have been permanently broken.
Broken or not, if I were an American pilot at the start of the war and given the choice of a Wildcat, a B-239 or a P-43, I would fly the P-43.
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I recently watched the movie based on the book he wrote.I know Col. (later Brig. Gen.) Robert L. Scott loved the one he managed to shanghai in east India/Burma in early April 1942 while he was assigned to the ABC Ferrying Command.
It was a P-43A that was flown back from China to trade for a P-40 - the wing fuel tank sealing was leaking (leaking fuel ignited by the hot turbo under the rear fuselage downed a lot of P-43s) and the mechanics in China (both CAF and USAAF) could not keep it sealed - same for the other one they grabbed at the same time.
He and his mechanics got one working properly, and he used it to escort transports heading "over the Hump" and for lone-wolf attacks on the Japanese in Burma.
He also got in trouble by flying it over Nepal and over Everest - he exceeded 40,000' true altitude on that flight - high enough that he was experiencing oxygen starvation even WITH his cockpit mask & factory O2 bottle!
However, he only flew it for that month - the wing tanks (simply sealed-off parts of the wing, not actual installed tanks) could no longer be kept sealed, and at the end of April he got permission to keep one of the three new P-40Es on its way to China. He eventually managed to get reassigned to the 23rd Fighter Group (which absorbed the remnants of the AVG in July 1942) and got a lot of combat in P-40s.