What plane do you wish had sawservice

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Me-262 operational in late 1994....

Wow did the Germans use it in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia?



Sorry I had to give you **** for that, I know it was a typo.

 

[Matt308]

 

[Civettone]

Dunno if its been mentioned yet (thats a lot of posts to flip through), but mine would be the IAR-81 with a BMW engine grafted on from a Fw-190A. Would have definitely helped its performance, but at that point in the war the Germans weren't interested in licensing the rights to build the engine out, so the ARR was stuck defending against the USAAF in secondhand 109s and 1940-vintage IARs.

I often wonder why the Rumanians didn't build the Gnome Rhone 14N or 14R engines. After French defeat and forced production, getting a licence to produce wouldn't have been a problem and they could have modified their own 14K engine production to the new one. With the 14R engine the IAR.80 would have had a 1100 kW engine which would have made it competitive until the end of the war...

Kris

 

[bigZ]

You seriously think that powder puff could filed 6-20mm?

Page 55 of "RAF Fighters Part 2" by William Green and Gordon Swanborough. Shows the 6 cannons installed before its first flight at Denham in what looks like a weapons fire testing. 200rpg.

Official site.

Martin Baker History MB3

 

[comiso90]

Shinden

Imagine the surprise if a couple squadrons of these were released after defensive armament on the B-29s were reduced and fighter escorts were relaxed.

 

[edd]

1994? heheheheh oops

 

[Desert Fox]

The CAC-15 would have been good to see flying in the skies of Australia. Not sure what we would've done with it had it been produced after the war, but imagine the possibilities during the Pacific campaign in WWII! Fastest piston engined fighter ever (have to check my facts there, but im pretty sure she was) against the Zero. Nice!

 

[Udet]

A Geschwader of Do-335s scything down a flight of Spitfires.

 

[Jank]

Republic P-72. Production went forward but then was cancelled in favor of long range escort fighters and jets.

 

[Civettone]

I have a long list of axis aircraft. From the top of my head:

Messerschmitt Bf 109Z
Messerschmitt P 1101
Junkers Ju 248
Junkers-Argus attack aircraft (or the EF 126)
Focke Wulf P III or P IV
Focke Wulf P VI (aka Flitzer)
Arado Ar 240C or Ar 440
Lippisch P 20 (turbojet Komet)
Henschel Hs 123 (again)
Henschel Hs 132
Dornier Do 26 (as a long-range recon with Hohenthwiel)
Dornier Do 435
Focke Achgelis Fa 284 (flying crane)

Fiat G.56
Ambrosini SAI.403
Caproni Ca.331! (my absolute favourite!)
Savoia Marchetti SM.91
Fiat AS.14
CANT Z.1018 Leone

and a whole bunch of Jap fighters and the Ohka rocket version.
Kris

 

[Matt308]

Well then. Don't bust a spleen finding handful of favorites.

 

[comiso90]

Caproni Ca.331! (my absolute favourite!)

Kris

Why?


I never heard of the Focke Achgelis Fa 284.

Thanks.. very cool

 

[HealzDevo]

B-36 Peacemaker- This thing will make peace with Japan all right by ruining all its cities. This thing had the largest wingspan of any plane ever, and could fly from the US to Europe, drop its bomb-load and fly back without refueling. It was ready to go by war's end but sadly was never really deployed although a few were deployed as spy-planes... With its bombload Japan would really be on its knees with each raid that got through...

 

[Jank]

The B-36 is the largest warplane ever produced and used in active service.

 

[HealzDevo]

But it was never actually used for bombing so far as I am aware. It never was used in Korea, or Malaya or anywhere.

 

[Jank]

Yes. And it is still the largest warplane ever produced that actively served.

 

[HealzDevo]

I just wish that it had had the chance to prove itself. Maybe a regular pasting from squadrons of those things would have made the atomic bombs unnecessary...

 

[FLYBOYJ]

B-36 Peacemaker- This thing will make peace with Japan all right by ruining all its cities. This thing had the largest wingspan of any plane ever, and could fly from the US to Europe, drop its bomb-load and fly back without refueling. It was ready to go by war's end but sadly was never really deployed although a few were deployed as spy-planes... With its bombload Japan would really be on its knees with each raid that got through...

ahhhh - NO....

The first B-36s entered service in 1948 - The prototype didn't fly until 1946. Although its development began in 1941 it was a really slow gestation period for the design and contract as other projects were given priority.

No B-36 flew prior to 1946...

 

[Parmigiano]

So many that I would had seen in flight...

the G56 of course

then some of the non conventional projects of Richard Vogt at Blohm&Voss, like the P208, P210 etc.

and one (for me) of the most beautiful planes, the Hughes XF11

 

[Matt308]

ahhhh - NO....

The first B-36s entered service in 1948 - The prototype didn't fly until 1946. Although its development began in 1941 it was a really slow gestation period for the design and contract as other projects were given priority.

No B-36 flew prior to 1946...

That's because it was so slow it took five years from brake release in 1941 to N2 in 1946.

Without fighter protection that beast would have been slaughtered.