Perfect "what if" plane

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

[Bronk]

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Just put a red dot on it and call it a niki.




Bronk

[Jester]

Neat Pic.  

[SMIDSY]

that one is cool, but i personally like the Do 335: fastest piston engined plane ever.

[Pooface]

Originally posted by SMIDSY
that one is cool, but i personally like the Do 335: fastest piston engined plane ever.

ONE of the fastest. damned ugly though!

[frank3]

It did pack quite a punch though! I thought it had an internal bomb-bay?

[SMIDSY]

i think one varient had an internal bomb bay, but im not sure. what i do know is that indeed it was, and is the fastest piston-engine plane EVER.

[frank3]

It was just a clever design, why weren't more designs made with 2 engines behind eachother? They did keep making them with the engines next to eachother

[Wilbus]

Do 335 is a beautiful plane and fast as hell, would've been one hell of a fighter plane most likely aswell as a supreme night fighter and attack plane.

However, it was not the fastest piston engined plane.

XP 47 reached just above 500mph level flight (prototype only).

Do 335 had a top speed of about 475mph at just above 20k for the single seater. Heavily armed though.

[SMIDSY]

ok, fastest piston engined plane to see service EVER.

[Wilbus]

Well... see service, depends on how one defines it

It saw service with "erprobungskommando" afail. Or a "test squadron" more or less flying most new plane types before final delivery to squadrons.

It is still not know wether any of the 30-35 (of which 14 were prototypes) A0's (pre-production) and A1's (first production version) saw any action.

Reports from Allied pilots said something similair to "A very strange looking plane but too fast to catch" being spotted, it is not know wether it was the Do 335 though.

Would be an awsome addition to AH but we will never see it I am afraid, not enough Data on the plane its service record.

[J_A_B]

"ok, fastest piston engined plane to see service EVER."

P-51H top speed: 487 MPH  
P-47M had a top speed in the 470 MPH range
Ta-152H supposedly reached 470 MPH or more as well.
Supermarine Spiteful's top speed was in the 490 range; almost as many of them were built as Do 335's (in other words, not many)



The Do 335 was indeed fast for something with propellers, but its speed was in the same category as several other unusually fast late-model fighters.

J_A_B

[frank3]

But alot heavier armed

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

But mine has a death ray! Bring on your nooks and b29's I'll vulch you from teh moon!

[SMIDSY]

ok, of the war:cry  STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!!!