P-38 or Mosquito?

[the lancaster kicks ass]

not bad, that's pretty damn good..............

 

[cheddar cheese]

no i doubt that 3500 miles was its combat radius

 

[plan_D]

I doubt that as well. That would mean it could fly to New York and back, no problem. I doubt that.

 

[Lightning Guy]

A 3,500 mile radius would have required a range of somewhere around 8,000 miles (allowing for warm-tp, take-off, climb to altitude, plus reserves for avoiding weather or going to high power to avoid fighters).

 

[cheddar cheese]

yes, and im very doubtful of that

 

[luca servitto]

p-38 for me very good aircraft and looks good too

 

[brad]

1 question if the p38 was so good why did so many get shot down

 

[Lightning Guy]

There were a lot of every plane that got shot down. But here are some things to consider. There were 10,000 P-38s built, meaning there were a lot to get shot down. The P-38 was used in every theatre of the war and used constantly meaning a lot of time to be shot down. A lot of P-38s were lost to other causes (weather or mechanical failure, NOT enemy combat).

 

[Stuka-99]

De Haviland Mosquito was the best of the two I think

 

[cheddar cheese]

nope it was the P-38 incredible plane

 

[luca servitto]

Very incredible plane in fact! if you think different you must be

 

[cheddar cheese]

exactly

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that's not a great picture to chose to show how great a plane is though, is it

"yes, the good one's the one that's going up in flames"................

 

[cheddar cheese]

what are you on about?

 

[Stuka-99]

Mossie the best!!!!

 

[cheddar cheese]

P-38 is better that the best then!

and i see what you mean now lanc, that isnt fire from the mossies, its coming from the building

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

oh yeah, so it is

P-38 is better that the best then!

it's impossible to be better than the best..............................

 

[ev0]

My vote goes to the p 38 because it could take really hard hits and still come home. I read the story of charles hoffman and he made a 300mile (or longer? don't remember) trip with a p38 on one engine....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the mossie could fly just as wel on one engine aswell you know, one of it's test flights the pilot showed off by feathering one propellor and going into a rolling climb on one engine.............................

 

[Lightning Guy]

Lockheed test pilot did stunt flights post-war in which he feathered both engines and landed dead-stick. During the flight he would do all kinds of maneuvers on one engine including turns and rolls into the dead one.