What is your favorite World War 2 fighter?

[funked]

 
Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

[-towd_]

n1k2 even runnin on pin sol ( like the ah one) it is plain out bad bellybutton with hold its own with anything if they cant jsut out clime ya

[PC]

Without question the Best fighter of WW2 the F4U-anyofthem. Anything else is just a piece of hog food. Why else did we make them till 1952???? The last Ta-152 was made when? Wonder when the last Me-262 was made? How about the fw190-anything?

PC

[SFRT - Frenchy]

I agree Towd, Niki is Mister Big Nasty. Remembers me my youth ... <seigh> .... when Towd was flying 109-K10 ... and I feared nobody in Niki hihihi... I'm crying now... nostalgia...bouhouou...

[texace]

FW-190 A8.

Lots of big guns
Reasonably fast.
Good looking.

RAM, let me guess...FW-190....hmmm......Dora?
 

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[Karnak]

PC,
that is an unfair analogy.  The Axis powers lost the war, of course the Axis planes were no longer produced after 1945.  Except for the Bf109 which was manufactured in Spain until 1956, that is a 21 year production run.  Of course it includes all of WWII (unlike the F4U's production run) which saw unprecedented advancement of aeronuatical engineering, yet it remained a capable fighter.

Now I'm no LW fan, but I just don't like unfair comparrisons used to justify something that is personal taste in the end.  So   to PC.

The only Allied combat aircraft that was produced before the war and was still being produced after the war was the Spitfire.  The first production Spitfire MkI was produced in 1938 and the last production Seafire F.47 was produced in 1949.  That is an 11 year run that, unlike the F4U (which only had a 10 year run from 1942 to 1952), includes all of WWII.  Like the Bf109, the Spitfire was still a capable fighter when it ended production, despit being designed in the 1930's.     to PC again.

Sisu
-Karnak

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[funked]

PC there was a 190 made this year, and some Me 262's almost complete.  
Neener neener neener!

[leonid]

Lavochkin 7

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[Spatula]

P-51D no question about it. The most beautifull prop aircraft ever built.
Its fast, good guns, dives, and zooms like a dream  

The 190A series is not a bad looker either.

Splatula  

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[Bluedog]

The CAC Boomerang.

I'm an Aussie, so is she.

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[funked]

Oh yeah I forgot my other favorites:

 
Grumman F8F

 
Grumman F7F

 
North American P-51H

[Replicant]

Well I've always loved the Hawker Hurricane... so that's mine.  Like the Hawker Hart/Hind biplane too (used in Africa/far East).

Regards

'Nexx'

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[Hazed]

109E (yellow nosed) first model i ever made  

[RAM]

 

Originally posted by texace:
RAM, let me guess...FW-190....hmmm......Dora?
   

In fact, any of them  

but the one I want into AH...is the one in my sig  


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Ram, out

I WANT THIS PLANE!!!!!!!

 

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[SnakeEyes]

I want Funked's selections.  

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