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Offline Pongo

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Would any figher provide a better front view then this?
« on: July 26, 2004, 12:44:17 PM »


That must have the best gunsight view of all time. not to mention the rest of the view.
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2004, 12:49:17 PM »
Me410?

Sure, the Bearcat would slaughter it, but the Me410 would have a better front view while dying.
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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2004, 01:00:06 PM »
Nose with a downward angle. Smart.

Though I`d think having such a beast radial engine in front can make thing a tad different than viewed from outside.

And a TIE Figher would be it with ease. ;)

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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2004, 01:43:31 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2004, 01:48:18 PM »
Some of the twin engine birds would have great views forward of course. Exept for the great huge engines that obstruct front left and front right.

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« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2004, 01:59:25 PM »
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Some of the twin engine birds would have great views forward of course. Exept for the great huge engines that obstruct front left and front right.


Yes, but you were inquiring about the forward view exclusively.;)
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« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2004, 02:13:38 PM »
I'd like to see a picture of it in flight, perhaps trailing smoke. I'm willing to bet it has a bit of a "resting-back" stance when in flight, making most of that "nose-down" appearance go away.

Just like the way the Hellcat does.
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« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2004, 02:41:20 PM »






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« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2004, 04:22:27 PM »

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« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2004, 05:12:24 PM »
Yep I know one, Maurice Farman S11 :)
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« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2004, 05:28:27 PM »
off the top of my head in terms of ww2 planes with a better FORWARD view..
beaufighter
mossy
westland whirwind
me 219
to name but a few...

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« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2004, 05:38:20 PM »
yawn

and the F7F!
Ya I get it. Lets all name some two engine planes we know. Name a  front engine tail dragger though. The high cockpit and low nose make the F8F pretty hard to beat.

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« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2004, 07:03:15 PM »
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Originally posted by VO101_Isegrim
Nose with a downward angle. Smart.

Though I`d think having such a beast radial engine in front can make thing a tad different than viewed from outside.


Did you know that the F8F Bearcat owes much of its concept to Kurt Tank's Fw 190?

Roy Grumman and Chief Engineer Robert Hall went to Britain to test fly a captured 190A-3. They were extremely impressed with the 190 and upon return to Bethpage, Long Island, set out to design a fighter that incorporated much of design philosophy of Tank's most important aircraft.

They used the powerful R-2800 engine and a laminar flow wing of only slightly less area than the extremely agile Wildcat. They also designed it for carrier duty. This meant positioning the pilot higher so that the view over the nose was optimized for seeing a flight deck on approach. I view it as the Frankenstein evolution of the Wildcat

What they eventually built was probably the best prop driven dogfighter ever made, and certainly the most superlative carrier fighter of the war. Tank would have been proud had he known that his influence resulted in such a beast of an airplane.

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« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2004, 07:30:30 PM »
im sure furball is about to blast you widewing about seafury and the 45000 spitfire verisons they made
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« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2004, 07:58:47 PM »
Widewing, when did Roy Grumman and Chief Engineer Robert Hall go to Britain to test fly a captured 190A-3?