WW2 top ten planes

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

If you can get only 1 shot at seeing any one museum in the US, the Smithsonian should be the one, just remember to check out the auxiliary site ehere many aircraft are located.

I agree great musuem. I also got a chance to see the auxiliary in February with the Space Shuttle Enterprise, SR-71, Concorde, Ar-232, and so many other aircraft. It is in my opinion the best museums followed by the Sinsheim and Deustsches Museums.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

there's a concorde in the Fleet air arm museum, someone died once when they fell of the steps up to it........

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

They have the Concorde also at the Sinsheim Museum along with the Tupeleve Russian Concorde (I can not remember the name of it)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Tu-144??

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Yes that is it, thankyou.

 

[CurzonDax]

Actually I am glad that the Dayton museum has taken control of the Memphis Belle. She was in sad shape. Details at 11, gotta get back to work.

:{)

 

[CurzonDax]

About the Belle, she was kept in a outside pavilion, sort of exposed to the weather and to birds and bats and their destructive ways. When I was trying to unsuccessfully trying to put her on the National Registry of Historic Places you could not walk on her port wing because there was danger that it could fall, two of her engines were so siezed that the props could not even turn by hand, a lot of her instruments were missing or had been stolen and so on and so on. She is an early F version but what made her unique was that she had many E qualities to her. I tried to put her in the registry but she was seen as just another Fort and the effort failed.

:{)

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I actually go to the Memphis Belle website and they show some pictures of the restoration. She was in a sad shape.

 

[p51#1wwii]

11: FW190
10: Mess162
9: Mess163 Komet
7: P40 Warhawk
6: Zero
5: P47 Thunderbolt
4: P38 Lightning
3: P81 Twin Mustang
2: B24 Liberator
1: P51 Mustang (duh!)

 

[Waynos]

For a list of ten favourite/Greatest aircraft I reckon I would have to go for the following, without the added difficulty of putting an order on it;

Spitfire
Mosquito
Beaufighter
Lancaster
Corsair
Avenger
Fw190
Bf 109
B-17
P-51........

Damn, 10 is nowhere near enough!

Still, it would have to be bloody long list before I put the Bf 162 on it (I suppose you really meant to say 262?)

 

[claidemore]

Spitfire Mk IX and XIV (does that count as one or two?)
KI-43 II/III Oscar
Yak 1b
FW190 D9
Bf109G-2
Martlet/Wildcat
Tempest V
Macchi-202/205
P40E/K
Mustang I

Not necessarily the 'best' planes, but the ones I find the most interesting.

 

[Catch22]

I'm going to go with Claidemore's method here, and choose the ones I am most interested in, and they happen to be good, so I'm going to give reasons.

F4U - Great multirole aircraft, as well as a superb fighter, finally gave the Marines something that could outfight the Zero.
Fw 190 - Another great multirole aircraft, outclassed the Spitfire when it first came out was at or near the top for the rest of the war.
Me 262 - Need I say more?
La-5/La-7 - Great fighter.
Mustang - As overrated as I think it is, it was still a great aircraft and was the plane that finally escorted the bombers to and from Germany.
Spitfire - Just a superb aircraft!
Tempest V - ^^
Bf 109 - While I don't think anything past the F should have been produced, it was still a great aircraft and did compete until the end.

I know it's not 10, but I ran out of ideas hah!

 

[tomo pauk]

So many planes, so few spots on the rooster

1. P-47
2. Bf-109
3. Hurricane
4. Hellcat
5. P-51
6. Mosquito
7. Zero
8. Ju-88
9. Pe-2
10. Avenger

No Spitfire on my list

 

[claidemore]

So many planes, so few spots on the rooster

1. P-47
2. Bf-109
3. Hurricane
4. Hellcat
5. P-51
6. Mosquito
7. Zero
8. Ju-88
9. Pe-2
10. Avenger

No Spitfire on my list

But it's important enough to make special mention.

 

[Juha]

My favourites:
Curtiss P-36
NA P-51B/C Malcolm hood
Spitfire VIII/XIV
Hawker Tempest V
DH Mosquito
Bf 109E-4/F-4/G-10
Focke-Wulf 190A-4/D-9
Boeing B-17
Lavochkin La-7
Mitsubishi J2M

Runner ups: P-47D-25/M, B-29 and Nakajima Ki-84.

For top 10 I would put P-47 in place of P-36, B-29 in place of B-17 and Ki-84 in place of J2M.

Juha

 

[ksilber11]

Hmmm no particular order

1. P-38 Lightning
2. F4U
3. BF-109 G or E
4. FW-190 A-8/R-8
5. P-47
6. SBD
7. A6M Zero
8. ME-163
9. F6F
10. Me-110

 

[fly boy]

p-51d
c-47
p-47d
me-262
spitfire
hurricane
bf-109
fw-190
F4U
SB2C
b-17g
b-29

this is in no order what so ever

 

[Watanbe]

F4U (best American fighter of the war)
P51 (over rated but had large impact)
Spitfire (from start to finish was one of best fighters)
Tempest (Brilliant piston fighter, fast, well armed)
Mosquito (excellent excelled in many roles)
Ju88 (as above)
Me109 (competitive from start to finish, workhorse)
FW190 (amazing fighter plane, superb at everything)
B-24 (under rated and ugly, dependable worker)
Lancaster (great plane, loads of bombs dropped)

Honourable mention:
Beaufighter
B25
B29
P47
Yak 9
Lagg 7

In a list of its own as greatest plane of all time C-47 (logistics, logistics, logistics, hardy)

 

[seesul]

P-51D
P-38
B-17
SBD
F6F
F4U
FW190A-8
BF109G-6/AS
TA152H
Spit Mk.IX

 

[Amsel]

Off the cuff...

F6F

B-17

Me 109

Spitfire

F4U

Hurricane

P-40

Fw 190

B-29

Lagg