What is Your favourite plane from world war 2?

[plan_D]

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean permanently even just once for the photo opportunity, the BBMF is sacred, I would never want it permanently violated...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i wouldn't want it viotaed atall

 

[cheddar cheese]

me and the lanc are going to a BBMF in july, we get to miss school

 

[Gemhorse]

I guess I'll get to see the photos of it down here in one of the magazines.. However, the Prez of our Fighter Pilots Assn. down here, was apparently a Corsair pilot ; Nicholas Trudgian, the Aviation Artist, did a painting of his work attacking Japs , but the President wrote a book of his exploits and I've just got my hands on it - Should be a good read....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

I realise Australia has a rich aviation heritidge, but what's NZ's like?

 

[Lightning Guy]

A note on the B-17, the F and the G models were equipped to carry two 4000lb bombs under the wings but that was only on short range missions and rarely used.

A note on aircraft nicknames, no plane had a cooler nickname than Der Gabelschwanz Teuful, the Fork-Tailed Devil!

 

[cheddar cheese]

i think stringbag is a pretty great nickname myself

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

don't forget wimpy, a name to strike fear into the hearts of the enemy .............

 

[Lightning Guy]

Nothing strikes fear like the sight of a fat man eating a hamburger!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you must see allot of that in america? (sorry, cheap shot)

but you would think that the brits could come up with something a bit more fearsome.....................

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

you must see allot of that in america? (sorry, cheap shot)

right-o old chap! that was a marvelous joke! and yes as far as that goes, i do see them a lot in fast food places.

 

[Lightning Guy]

The Brits did a better job naming planes that the Americans did for the most part. Did you know that the USAAF originally wanted to call the P-38 the Atlanta?

 

[cheddar cheese]

then your username would be atlanta guy, forcing us to think you were camp

 

[Lightning Guy]

So I am definitely glad we at least handed a couple of the planes over to the Brits

 

[cheddar cheese]

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i wonder if there's ever gonna be a boeing 666 or 888?

 

[Lightning Guy]

Very doubtful.

 

[cheddar cheese]

or an Avro Cornwall...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that would be sooooo cool, a nime with power and conviction..........

 

[cheddar cheese]

it would be equipped with 2 .303 pitchforks under each wing, but me montrously loud as it would be diesel, it would have a power take off at the back and a milking parlour in the bomb bay