Pick Your Own Air Force

I was wondering about P-80 though. Made it to Italy before close of war.

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I think he meant 9 catagories of planes not that you could only have 9 planes total.

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davparlr said:

Matt308 said:

Faster at altitude. 460mph max with 435mph in armed version. But I'd have to check. A bit faster than wartime Mosquito.

[Below is the Wikipedia pic. She looks brutally fast.]

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Best I could find is 435 mph with high performance engines (also from Wikipedia).

"With later models of the 222 it was supposed to have reached around 700 km/h (435 mph), again losing about 25 km/h for nightfighters. These -2 versions were considerably faster than the de Havilland Mosquito. The bomber versions flew at roughly the same speeds (depending on load), while the recce versions would have been about 25 km/h faster."

In any event, it seems to be an excellent recon. I am not sure that it would fit in this category. There doesn't seem to be a record of these high powered versions being built or used in combat.

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Davparlr my memory did not serve me right. I was thinking not of the 44,000ft altitude max -388, but rather the -188. It had a max speed of 440mph for the T-1.

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Matt308 said:

davparlr said:

Davparlr my memory did not serve me right. I was thinking not of the 44,000ft altitude max -388, but rather the -188. It had a max speed of 440mph for the T-1.

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Still appears to be a competent and worthy selection.

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