Aircraft Polling Results

[Masherbrum]

PBY Catalina is missing off of the list.


As for the 110 "doing exactly what the Beaufighter did"?   No way in hell.   

[Karnak]

PBY Catalina is missing off of the list.


As for the 110 "doing exactly what the Beaufighter did"?   No way in hell.   

My list was not intended to be a complete list.  As I said, examples. 

[froger]

I hope HT makes it so that glass will shoot out explosively when you rake it with even a .303. It'd be nice to see some carnage in that birdcage proboscis.

One other fun role for it, scenario-wise: attempting to ferry supplies into the frozen hell of Gumrak and Pitomnik in the Stalingrad kessel. Now THERE'S an opportunity for some persistent-battlefield hell (and too bad we don't have one). That'd be a fun scenario: try to ferry supplies in without etting WASTED by Yaks. You could reward the bait with points just for delivering supplies to the encirclement.

Awesome bro 

[Guppy35]

Just curious, this has nothing to do with how I feel about the aircraft, but as far as utilitarian MA use goes, why would people pick the Beaufighter over the Bf 110G or Mosquito, or the G.55 over the Bf 109G-14, K-4, Yak 9U etc. etc. etc.?
These are still mid war aircraft.

Beau was in if from beginning to end.  It's history extends further then the 110 and Mossie in terms of where it fought.  As for the MA, the Beau would do more jobs then either the 110 or Mossie.

Personally I'd fly it cause it's a low alt bird and I like it on the deck.  And I've never wanted to fly the latest and greatest which is why I wander around in a 38G. 

Making the Beau work in the MA would be part of the challenge and the fun.

[Raptor]

The point of this thread was to post the overall results of the polling and find out people's reactions to the results, not to debate which plane should have won or whatever.

I did the poll in the same manner HiTech conducts their online polls, so that is why I did it like I did. I did not separate the categories because I was not looking for the most popular vehicle, the most popular plane, etc. I was looking for the most popular overall machine. The 5th most popular aircraft was still more popular than the most desired vehicle.


I kind of don't want to break the bad news that these polls have no merit as to what the next aircraft will be, but we don't want to spread rumors that the He-111 is in the works now do we

[RaptorL]

From one Raptor to another, could you set up a gv poll?

[Motherland]

Beau was in if from beginning to end.  It's history extends further then the 110 and Mossie in terms of where it fought.  As for the MA, the Beau would do more jobs then either the 110 or Mossie.

Personally I'd fly it cause it's a low alt bird and I like it on the deck.  And I've never wanted to fly the latest and greatest which is why I wander around in a 38G. 

Making the Beau work in the MA would be part of the challenge and the fun.

You're preaching to the choir
I honestly don't care about MA effectiveness in the least bit, I don't think that any new aircraft will be immediately popular and even if they were it really wouldn't change anything about MA play. That's why I'd love to see aircraft like the He 111, Do 17, CR42, I153, Gladiator, MS 406 etc etc. For the sake of scenario use.



What I'm asking is, to those that say that the Beaufighter and G.55 would be successful MA aircraft compared to the Ki 43, He 111, etc., and should be added on that merit, why do you think that they would be?

[Guppy35]

You're preaching to the choir
I honestly don't care about MA effectiveness in the least bit, I don't think that any new aircraft will be immediately popular and even if they were it really wouldn't change anything about MA play. That's why I'd love to see aircraft like the He 111, Do 17, CR42, I153, Gladiator, MS 406 etc etc. For the sake of scenario use.



What I'm asking is, to those that say that the Beaufighter and G.55 would be successful MA aircraft compared to the Ki 43, He 111, etc., and should be added on that merit, why do you think that they would be?

The Beau would at least bring a bit of accuracy to the idea of NOE.  That's where it's war was fought.  Many of the crews skipped parachutes as they were flying too low anyway.  It would make far more sense to see a group of Beaufighter TFX attacking shipping as much of what they did was in that role.  A typical historic set up for the Dalachy Wing Beaufighters attacking shipping involved some with rockets for the flak, some with torps for the shipping, and all with cannons to finish the job.  A bunch of 110s and N1Ks mixed attacking a field looks silly.  A bunch of Beaufighters would at least look accurate if that makes sense.

That it carried rockets or bombs, or Torps depending on the job makes it much more viable as an MA bird.  I wouldn't fly it that way as I haven't ever had much desire to blow things up, but at least it would look right in that job.  And for mess around on the deck folks like myself, I think it would be a fun bird to play with.  Throw in the history stuff and it fits for me.

[999000]

PBY most successful flying boat in the war over 3000 produced used in every theatre.
999000 <S>

[Karnak]

PBY most successful flying boat in the war over 3000 produced used in every theatre.
999000 <S>

Define "successful".

[Jayhawk]

From one Raptor to another, could you set up a gv poll?

The raptors are working together. 

[W7LPNRICK]

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Appropriate place for this.   

[PJ_Godzilla]

The raptors are working together. 

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Clever girl... (file under stupidest line uttered in a movie).

At first I thought the one in bg was dawgy-stylin' the one in fg. Perhaps the Raptors can assure me that's NOT occurring.

[Raptor]

Clever girl... (file under stupidest line uttered in a movie).

At first I thought the one in bg was dawgy-stylin' the one in fg. Perhaps the Raptors can assure me that's NOT occurring.

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[321BAR]

the 110 was actually more of an anti bomber role right?