You are a WW2 pilot and you get to pick your plane.

[gomwolf]

Bf109 After Fredrich, of course.

 

[Timppa]

I would have liked to be the guy in this photo:

 

[captain Frey]

For me P47D (bubble top) or FW190A,
wide track landing gear, reliabilty, maneuvrability and good engine.

@+

 

[herman1rg]

Hughes H-4 Hercules

 

[Elmas]

Fiat G 56.

 

[syscom3]

C-54 flying the MATS routes around the world.

 

[BiffF15]

Allied: F8F in Pacific or P-51B/C/D/H w/8thAF
Axis: FW-190D13 or maybe just maybe the Me-262

Ragardless my personal ride would a Willys Jeep!

 

[Aozora]

Martin-Baker MB 5...

 

[parsifal]

I think a Sunderland flying with Number 10 squadron RAAF

 

[Peter Gunn]

P-51 B/C with the 8th AF out of Debden.

 

[bobbysocks]

I saw this question asked to one of the ww2 vets. his answer was depends on if I was doing the shooting or getting shot at...if doing the shooting he wanted to be in a mustang...if being shot at he wanted to be behind the stick of a T-bolt...

 

[drgondog]

P-51H getting ready for Japan - after two tours in P-51B/D in ETO

 

[Peter Gunn]

P-51H getting ready for Japan - after two tours in P-51B/D in ETO

Agreed, guess I wasn't thinking far enough ahead...

 

[grampi]

Bearcat... stationed at Clark AB.

Awesome plane, but did you pick the Bearcat because you'd have no chance of getting shot down because it never saw action?

 

[grampi]

For low to mid level altitudes, I'd take the Bearcat...for high altitude I'd go with a P-51H or late model Spit...

 

[wlewisiii]

I'll choose the A-20 as well. Just my favorite aircraft. With a solid nose, 2000 pounds of bombs and two T-30 4.5" rocket launchers under the wings you could do a lot of damage in a sweet to fly aircraft.

 

[GrauGeist]

You may want to rethink that A-20 assignment...it was not all fun and games.

An A-20J takes a direct hit from flak...

An A-20 of the 9th AF takes a dircet hit from flak over France, instantly losing it's rear fuselage.

Neither crew survived...

 

[wlewisiii]

In the real world I was a m-60a3 tanker in the early 80's in Germany. Had the T-64s come through Fulda, I'd have been just as dead only faster. If I could I'd rather roll dice with Azrael in the air than on the ground.

 

[GrauGeist]

Just imagine how the M48A1 guys were sweating bullets at Checkpoint Charlie when things got hot back in '61

 

[fastmongrel]

Just imagine how the M48A1 guys were sweating bullets at Checkpoint Charlie when things got hot back in '61

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Imagine how the guy who owned the VW Beetle felt. It was either going to get flattened or get a anti tank shell through it.