What if the Bf110 only have one pilot?

[GrauGeist]

The USAAF really only had three operational types that could fit into the "heavy fighter" category:
P-38
P-82
P-61
The XP-58 was to have been in this category as well.

As far as the "bomber destroyer" category goes, the YFM and the XA-38 are the few in class. The XA-38 was changed to a ground attack candidate (and didn't develop further) while the YFM slid into obscurity.

 

[Shortround6]

while the YFM slid into well deserved obscurity.

fixed it for you.

 

[GrauGeist]

fixed it for you.

Thank you!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Should you find the time and desire to read what was posted on this forum about the P-40, you will see that it received a fair shake here, to say at least.

To be fair to Tom, in unschooled circles, the P-40 was long considered a dog, not because it was one, but because it labored under unfair comparisons and/or selective readings. I myself long thought of it as mediocre at best until I started reading more about it.

It certainly receives a fair shake here, but the knowledge on this forum is much more detailed and insightful than general aviation literature, where the plane was indeed often maligned.

And to be fair, some of its pilots did dislike it. But we can say that about almost any airplane, no?

 

[tomo pauk]

To be fair to Tom, in unschooled circles, the P-40 was long considered a dog, not because it was one, but because it labored under unfair comparisons and/or selective readings. I myself long thought of it as mediocre at best until I started reading more about it.

I myself consider the P-40 as a fighter that was there for the Allied cause in the time when the Allies were stretched thin. When flown in it's best altitude band (as determined by the engine it used), it was a dangerous opponent. Say, good, if not ideal fighter?
Too bad it never gotten more modern engines.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I myself consider the P-40 as a fighter that was there for the Allied cause in the time when the Allies were stretched thin. When flown in it's best altitude band (as determined by the engine it used), it was a dangerous opponent. Say, good, if not ideal fighter?
Too bad it never gotten more modern engines.

Well-put. All airplanes have strengths and weaknesses in various proportions, and the P-40, flown by a knowledgeable fighter pilot was certainly dangerous to any aircraft it opposed, when used in accordance with its strengths, mainly (from my understanding, amenable to correction) dive acceleration and high-speed roll, and some ruggedness thrown in too.

 

[SaparotRob]

It was MADE for a shark mouth. We were all thinking it.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

It was MADE for a shark mouth. We were all thinking it.

A shark-mouth just doesn't look right on any other airplane, to my eyes.

 

[special ed]

All this discussion has made me dizzy. I see hoards of B-18s flying towards the enemy's land escorted by Bell YFM-1s. I shall take a beer break.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

All this discussion has made me dizzy. I see hoards of B-18s flying towards the enemy's land escorted by Bell YFM-1s. I shall take a beer break.

Beer is pretty much required when considering the YFM ... and it's a given in the design stage.

 

[special ed]

I have always liked the YFM, probably because of my age, largely the general appearance.

 

[GrauGeist]

There's no question that the YFM's design is rooted in the golden age of design and architecture.

It's only redeeming quality, though, would be a spaceship prop in a Flash Gordon or Buck Roger's film.

 

[Admiral Beez]

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That's pedantry.

I assumed by that exercise that we were being punked.

 

[wlewisiii]

View: https://youtu.be/iRqXFycEDJE

 

[Just Schmidt]

A shark-mouth just doesn't look right on any other airplane, to my eyes.

I know taste is taste, but in my eyes that's one of the things the Bf 110 could do well.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I know taste is taste, but in my eyes that's one of the things the Bf 110 could do well.

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It just doesn't work for me, the chin-radiator adds to the shark profile, but horses for courses.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Hey boys - a quick post and a turd in the punch bowl, and VASCO correct me if I'm wrong but the early -110 did not have cockpit heaters, later ones had provisions for heated suits.

 

[Shortround6]

Hey boys - a quick post and a turd in the punch bowl, and VASCO correct me if I'm wrong but the early -110 did not have cockpit heaters, later ones had provisions for heated suits.

And that is why the Rumanian ones performed so poorly. The Rumanians specified a cast iron, coal fired heater much like the British did on the P-3______ (must not be named)

 

[FLYBOYJ]

And that is why the Rumanian ones performed so poorly. The Rumanians specified a cast iron, coal fired heater much like the British did on the P-3______ (must not be named)

That gets bacon as well!

 

[GrauGeist]

I thought the British Pee-30Nein had a small coal-fired tea warmer and the Soviet version used wood for their heater?