WHAT "DUD" WOULD YOU FLY?

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evangilder said:
Hmmm..I mentioned the P-36 because it was the predecessor to the P-40. I don't know much about the P-36 though. I am assuming that the P-40 should have been better than the P-36 as it was after, but I could be wrong.
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Steve Hinton just wrote a pilot report on a recently restored P-36. He said it was more maneuvable than the P-40, but obviously slower. If I remember right, he compared it to the Hurricane
 
The P-36 was better than the P-40, it was just slower. It was better, in my opinion, than the early Spitfires. Although speed is quite important, I reckon a higher powered engine wasn't out of the grasp of Western technology.

Here's a good, basic, description of the Mohawk .IV. http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p36_10.html
 
Okay, then I sit corrected! I certainly respect the opinion of Steve Hinton. That guys has probably flown everything with wings and an engine! Ihave a video at home of him in a Corsair in a mock dogfight with our museum's Zero over the Pacific. Some great aerial cinematography.
 
evangilder said:
Wasn't Torpedo 8, which was wiped out at Midway flying those?
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All but Ensign George Gay. Although wounded, he survived. Lated flew for United Airlines. Passed away a few years ago.
 
I'd have to go with the Ba.88, easily the worst piece of junk to fly in the war (or attempt to fly ). It did look pretty good though.
 
It said coastal patrols, I am assuming that was probably Atlantic side. I am glad that we weren't the only ones that had to suffer the indignity of flying those beasts!

It's good side is that is was a development of the Douglas DC-2, which became the DC-3/C-47
 
Apparently the RCAF Digbys served with No. 10 (BR) squadron operating out of my local area, and were eventually replaced with Liberators. They even killed a U-boat.

"Like their American counterparts, the RCAF Digbys were also employed on maritime reconnaissance missions to counter the U-boat menace. The Canadian Digbys are credited with one U-boat kill. This was U-520 which was sunk on October 3, 1942 by Digby #757 PB-K of 10 (BR) Squadron operating out of Dartmouth (Halifax, Nova Scotia). By mid-1943, the RCAF Digbys had been superceded by Liberator GR. Vs in the anti-submarine role,"

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b18.html
 
DIGBY - BOLO WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON HERE

Hey, but it did sink a SUB (I hate those things ya know! ).

Picture this; You're a suave pilot in a nightclub, 1943, you go up to a beautiful gal just admiring your two-tone USAAF uniform with those shinny silver wings, or your stunning blue RCAF uniform with those gorgeous bullion wings, and say "I fly a Digby," or "I fly a Bolo."

IF YOU WERE HER, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY!

Now I know why pilots lie!
 
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