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Chris, after re-reading my own post - how could you interpret it the way I intended. I was not very articulate.
It's just that the 51G and F8F kind of represented the next incremental development of the 51 and F6F had Germany's new piston engine fighters created serious problems. Had the land battles been stalled at the Rhine I suspect both the P-51H and P-80 would have been introduced into combat in ETO by April/May... and the Ta 152H would have been picking up steam
Adler, why'd you say the P-83?
This may have been brought up before but I didn't read all 35 pages. For me it's a no brainer, the Avro Arrow if for no other reason than to prove to those that doubt, that this would have been a world beater. Not to mention that the ****ards wouldn't have waisted millions of my tax dollars.
Ok, I didn't mean to critisize, I was just curious of your reasoning. I think it would have been good in WWII for the invasion of Japan, but it would be pretty outdated if it saw service in Korea...
I'll second the choice of the Arrow! Best jet interceptor in the world at the time. Canadian!?! What??What a bunch of idiots we had in charge at the time to cancel it!
As i currently live in Canada, I too, believe the Avro Arrow to have been the best, if not, one of the best jet interceptors in the world at its greatest moments in 1958.
He should have said "could have been the best"... Though it has gotten a bit off topic as this was supposed to be what WWII aircraft do you wish had seen service, I believe.
How could it have been the best if it never entered service...
Come on guys.
"believe the arrow to have been the best"
besides, I put a list under that considering the a/c i wanted in service.
Do you have a source for that?For me the Plane that should had saw saw service was the Arado 440 very fast and it was said to great to fly
Technical specifications were first published in October 1938, followed by detailed plans later that year. In May 1939 the RLM ordered a run of six prototypes. The first Ar 240 V1 prototype, DD+QL, took to the air on 25 June 1940, and immediately proved to have terrible handling in all three axis, and also tended to overheat during taxiing.
The handling was thought to be the result of the ailerons being too small given the thick wing, so the second prototype was modified to have larger ones, as well as additional vertical fin area on the dive brakes to reduce yaw. In addition small radiators were added to the gear legs to improve cooling at low speeds, when the gear would normally be opened. Ar 240 V2, KK+CD, first flew on 6 April 1941, and spend most of its life at the factory as a test plane.
V3 followed, the first to be equipped with the FA 9 rear-firing armament system, developed jointly by Arado and DVL, armed with a 7.92 mm MG 81Z twin machine gun. V4 was the first to include an operational dive brake, and flew on 19 June 1941. V5 and V6 followed in December and January, including the upgraded FA 13 system using two 13 mm MG 131s in place of the MG 81Z for a considerable boost in firepower.
The Ar 240's excellent performance quickly led to the V3, V5 and V6 being stripped of their armament, including the defensive guns, and used as reconnaissance aircraft over England, where no other two-seater could venture by 1942.