Author Topic: What If? (Read 2264 times)

Wes14 · « **on:** May 22, 2007, 03:36:06 PM »

Rv8 with a supercharged Griffon engine?

P-38 with Me-262 like engines?

B29 with the firefly gun on the bottom on a turret instead of nooky?

jeep with a supercharged Griffon engine and a monster truck tire setup?

Spit16 with a self destruct instead of weapons?

B17 with a 2,000watt surround sound stereo system?

Bf-110 with Me-163 engines?

Spitfire with a Glouster Meteor engine?

Bf-109 with spinners?

Bodhi · « **Reply #1 on:** May 22, 2007, 03:49:05 PM »

drugs are bad.

LancerVT · « **Reply #2 on:** May 22, 2007, 04:19:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Bodhi
drugs are bad.

LOL

Wes14 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 22, 2007, 04:50:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Bodhi
drugs are bad.

So is Randomness:noid

Puck · « **Reply #4 on:** May 22, 2007, 05:08:50 PM »

How about non-random? A P-38 with Merlin engines. Kelly Johnson had the drawings made for the conversion, and they were available early on. Wright Patterson specifically FORBADE anyone to put a Merlin in a P38[1], but I'm surprised the British didn't try it. That's what made the Mustang flyable; imagine what it would have done for the P38...

[1] While this seems arbitrary and capricious, consider for a moment that they could engine two P-51s for every P-38 and the supply of Merlins was not inexhaustible. The P-38 was also bigger, more expensive to build and operate, and required a larger supply chain than the P-51. A Merlin P-38 would have almost certainly been "better" than a P-51, but the P-51 was good enough, so why take on the extra expense?

morfiend · « **Reply #5 on:** May 22, 2007, 06:05:11 PM »

oy1crazyace · « **Reply #6 on:** May 22, 2007, 06:07:52 PM »

im still for the jeep with the tires

and the b17 with the stero system

that would be sweet:aok

roll down the windows and make the n00bs listen to themselves dieing over and over =D

and random weird **** like the hampsterdance

Wes14 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 23, 2007, 12:54:39 AM »

the hampster dance..? what the **** is that??

Larry · « **Reply #8 on:** May 23, 2007, 01:06:26 AM »

Kids these days will smoke anything.

1K3 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 23, 2007, 03:24:21 AM »

What if Herman Goering's wish came true... that Luftwaffe should be equipped with Schmittfires?

Puck · « **Reply #10 on:** May 23, 2007, 09:01:42 AM »

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Originally posted by 1K3
What if Herman Goering's wish came true... that Luftwaffe should be equipped with Schmittfires?

Galland, not Goering.

leitwolf · « **Reply #11 on:** May 23, 2007, 09:41:44 AM »

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Originally posted by Puck
How about non-random? A P-38 with Merlin engines. Kelly Johnson had the drawings made for the conversion, and they were available early on. Wright Patterson specifically FORBADE anyone to put a Merlin in a P38[1], but I'm surprised the British didn't try it. That's what made the Mustang flyable; imagine what it would have done for the P38...
[..]

The Problem with the P-51 and P-51A was not the Allison engine itself but rather the supercharger. Rolls Royce Merlin installations were way ahead in this department and this brought a huge improvement for the P-51B.

The P-38, however, wouldn't have improved much by putting Merlins in it, its superchargers were on par with that of RR.. much more sensible idea to use Packards Merlin production in a fighter which had to gain so much from it like the Mustang.

The biggest leap for the P-38 would've been the prop from the P-38K..

Furball · « **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2007, 10:53:12 AM »

Spitfire looks ugly with that bulbous nose.

WMDnow · « **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2007, 02:31:57 PM »

LMAO that was a dumb list. i was gonna give a seminar about alcohol abuse till i saw bodhi's reply.

Wes14 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 23, 2007, 03:48:29 PM »

pretty much all of them except the jeep with big tires and the B17 sound system,i though up as i typed it:p