P-36, P-35 or Wildcat

[FLYBOYJ]

Who cares? Most people need to get their aircraft right!! Sheesh! People take offense at ANYTHING these days !

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.

 

[vikingBerserker]

...and the stupid shall be punished.

Nice shotin' FB.

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

...and the stupid shall be punished.

Nice shotin' FB.

That made me laugh out loud VB.
Glad I wasn't trying to drink something.


Wheels

 

[R Leonard]

Well, that didn't take long, did it.

 

[Messy1]

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!

 

[Pong]

Anyway, back to the thread.

Would chose the Wildcat, though slower than the Zero or other Japanese fighters, since it had quite a punch and was pretty tough.

 

[renrich]

Congrats to you moderators for maintaining some decorum and respect for others on this forum . I belong to another forum which is supposed to be about the sports progams at the university I am an alumnus of. Many of the posts wander from the subject, are ill informed and downright insulting and infantile. Makes me almost ashamed to be associated with other graduates from that institution. Keep up the good work, all of you.

 

[Njaco]

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!

Bryon, you kill me!!!

Not knowing very much about these planes except, I believe the P-35 was the forerunner to the P-47, I would go with the Wildcat based solely on the fact that it saw more combat service tan the others. But I'm not that knowledgable about any of these.

 

[_PabloSniper_]

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.

 

[SaparotRob]

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.

Glad you resurrected this thread.
I agree with your choice. Definitely the Wildcat. It was the blue paint.

 

[MIflyer]

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.

 

[_PabloSniper_]

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.

The P-39 also didn't come out of a spin.
And that didn't stop it from being mass-produced.
It's an important factor, but it's not a decisive one, after all we're not talking about an acrobatic plane.

 

[Sisu]

I agree with your choice. Definitely the Wildcat. It was the blue paint.

Blue?

 

[SaparotRob]

In-Forum running joke. I was expecting a response from @pben.

 

[MIflyer]

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.

 

[_PabloSniper_]

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.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Boy, am I glad this thread got necro'ed. I voted F4F, because lotsa suckers shot down, lotsa pilots kept alive, R Leonard 's dad flew one (and I've read about him in Lundstrom), and who doesn't like the Iron Works or the Big Blue?

Reminds me too of Joe. I wish I knew him better.

 

[GreenKnight121]

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 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.

 

[_PabloSniper_]

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.

I recently watched the movie based on the book he wrote.
God is My Copilot


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmlN_fZ9RXM