Which side would you fly for?....... (5 Viewers)

[Sagaris]

The copyrighted picture was on his previous signature, he has since changed it.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it was impossible to miss on his last one....................

 

[cheddar cheese]

yup, a big 'C' plastered across it...

 

[lesofprimus]

Why the hell are u responding over a month late to a dead topic???? Youve done that in several posts...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

he does it because he has to find ways to post.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

and because i have nowt better to do with my time

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that's true.................

 

[cheddar cheese]

tis 8)

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Well you got your wish you wanted some German or Italian people to the site. Well okay I am German/American so I guess that does not count. I would have to fly for the Germans. I know it was a losing battle and I would not have done it in support of Hitler or anything like that but I disagree that the British or the Americans had better aircraft. The Luftwaffe was just amazing yes it was destroyed in the end but the aircraft were just amazing. The Me-109, FW-190, Me-262, Ar-234, Me-163, the list is endless and aircraft like the Ju-88 might not have been the fastest but they were so diverse. You could adapt them for any role. The German engineers were geniuses with there designs and came up with so many great aircraft. Many aircraft that never even made into full production the Gotha Ho-229, can anyone argue that it would have the best thing in the air had it made into production? If Hitler had used the Luftwaffe correctly in the beginning years of the war it would have been hard to top it.

 

[lesofprimus]

I have to agree with u 98% on what u said....

but I disagree that the British or the Americans had better aircraft.

I think that the airpower game was a give and take.. The Allies would make a new variant of the Spit to beat the -109, the Germans would counter.. Back and forth it went... At certain times the Allied planes were better, certain times the Luftwaffe aircraft dominated.....

Definatly agree with u on the -229....

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

You are correct with it going back and forth with the varients. I think more varients of fighters of the same kind came out in WW2 than any other time period. It probably was because it was cheaper and easier to just upgrade and existing type that was alrady proven rather than switch over and over. Plus the assembaly lines were already running for those types.

 

[lesofprimus]

Exactly.....

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Not to say that either side had great other designs thought it is just that each side had its main aircraft. The Germans had the Me-109, the Brits had the spitfire, the Americans had the P-51. It was like there signature aircraft.

 

[cheddar cheese]

And the French had the Dewoitine D.520

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

And each had its own good charactistics and bad characteristics.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yup. All planes have them though...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

same with bombers really, each country had their principal bomber, us brits the lancaster, the americans the B-17 (even though the B-24 was better and built in bigger numbers) and the germans the He-111............

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Yeap the same for bombers. The funny thing is that none of Germanys large long range heavy bombers really got off the ground. Hitler was so obsessed with bomber aircraft though that he never dropped the programs in favor of developing better fighters.

 

[cheddar cheese]

The way Hitler got to power may have been clever, but when he was in power it really became clear he was thick...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

He needed to let his Generals and Feldmarschals like Rommel run the war. If Rommel did not have his hands tied behind his back the whole war I think he could have done more damage than he did.