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Title: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Rich46yo on June 26, 2014, 01:32:54 PM
As in now? Which one are you obsessed with? Ive been going giddy over the KI-84 myself.

But Yak-mania is always a threat to take over.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: bangsbox on June 26, 2014, 01:52:11 PM
p-47D11 and f4f and of course after perk farming with them I feed my 262 addiction
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Zerstorer on June 26, 2014, 03:10:40 PM
bf110G4 & P40N 

I've also flown the SpitV in the DA a few times...I'd forgotten how much fun that plane can be.  :)
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Cremator on June 26, 2014, 04:10:37 PM
KI 84 and wirble...
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Nathan60 on June 26, 2014, 05:13:33 PM
I-16 has been for a cpl tours now, just started flying the LA5 and I am enjoying that aswell. 109G-6 and P47-25 will always have a spot in my heart as well tho.  The p39D too, man there are just so many planes I enjoy flying, maybe that's the reason I have never settled on one plane in particular. With so many choices why limit yourself? The challenge of learning all the different planes is enjoyable(to me)
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Saxman on June 26, 2014, 05:22:08 PM
The F4U is my one and only love.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: The Fugitive on June 26, 2014, 09:01:54 PM
Before the 38 it was the F4u. I have returned to her recently and she is letting me know she is a bit ticked off at me, but I'll get a handle on her again soon  :D

Blue is best!
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on June 26, 2014, 09:29:58 PM
B-17G, but I also find myself dreaming about the B-29 occasionally.  :D
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: TonyJoey on June 27, 2014, 10:15:34 AM
With me playing a lot during the daytime with little to no air combat, the B29 has been my most recent sweetheart. However, when the baddies start showing up, you can find me in a P-51 95% of the time. I settled on the Pony a few years ago and haven't really looked back, as it just fits my flying style like a glove.  :aok
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: glzsqd on June 27, 2014, 10:28:25 AM
F4U-1, it just an incredible plane, and one of the meanest looking fighters in the game.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: kano on June 27, 2014, 12:09:19 PM
Fighter wise im enjoying the Yak 3 and Dora alot at the moment, bomber wise i have a soft spot for the TU2 i generally only take 1 drop my ords then go into strafe mode :)

EatG
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Volron on June 27, 2014, 01:01:29 PM
When it comes down to it, the A6M3.  As for bombers, I still don't find myself flying anything else as often as the B-17 and B-24. :)
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Rich46yo on June 27, 2014, 01:03:58 PM
Fighter wise im enjoying the Yak 3 and Dora alot at the moment, bomber wise i have a soft spot for the TU2 i generally only take 1 drop my ords then go into strafe mode :)

EatG

Lol, dont even get me started on the TU2S. I had decided I was going to answer this without mentioning it. ;) Best Bomber ever in AH. Made even better by the years of whinging for it. I like the LA5 as well. Like the Yak9T its a great defender against the mob. Get it up to speed and just zip around picking off stragglers.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: TheCrazyOrange on June 27, 2014, 02:32:26 PM
Ki-43, Ta-152, P-51B, and the He-111 just because it's the best looking bomber in the game.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on June 27, 2014, 02:35:23 PM
Ki-43, Ta-152, P-51B, and the He-111 just because it's the best looking bomber in the game.
German bombers are ugly  :uhoh
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: TheCrazyOrange on June 27, 2014, 02:43:25 PM
German bombers are ugly  :uhoh

Better than anything else we have. I guess one could make a case for the B-25, but it doesn't have those broad wings, and stepless cockpit.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Larry on June 27, 2014, 04:55:11 PM
C205. It's the only fighter I've been flying for the last week or so. It's a challenge to fly and I'm still getting used to the guns. I've got about 125 kills in it so far. Going to try and get up to 1000 then switch to another "hanger queen" plane. Maybe even go to the C202.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: glzsqd on June 27, 2014, 05:04:17 PM
PBJ B-25s are the most effective and best looking bombers in the game period.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Saxman on June 27, 2014, 05:31:34 PM
PBJ B-25s are the most effective and best looking bombers in the game period.

Still wishing for AP rounds for the pumpkin chucker (they apparently carried 5 AP shells in their mix).
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Someguy63 on June 27, 2014, 06:28:52 PM
My sweetheart......
(http://www.hitechcreations.com/wiki/images/7/71/Bf109k4.jpg)


109K4 :D
The best of the 109's IMO.  :)
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Oldman731 on June 27, 2014, 08:28:08 PM
Maybe even go to the C202.


You will love the 202.  205 is a pig.

- oldman
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Serenity on June 27, 2014, 08:39:42 PM
Right now, it's the F4U. I feel like I really SHOULD learn to love the Navy planes after all...

But my real loves are the P-47D-11 and the Bf-109. I miss the crap out of them sometimes...
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: TheCrazyOrange on June 27, 2014, 08:44:02 PM
I don't know why, but I've always hated flying the F4U's. Maybe it's the hood in back I don't like; rear quarter SA is kinda bad.

Love the F6F though; stable, tough, maneuverable. If only it was a tad faster.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Blinder on June 27, 2014, 08:47:43 PM
I've recently been getting quite a kick out of jet setting about.

(http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/ar234_01.jpg)


speed = freedom  :rock
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: FLOOB on June 27, 2014, 09:20:24 PM

You will love the 202.  205 is a pig.

- oldman
There's a shirt for us.
(http://rlv.zcache.com/regia_aeronautica_macchi_202_folgore_shirt-r40e70e36020c4681af6aef6bc2ce013f_804gs_512.jpg)
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Serenity on June 28, 2014, 11:21:26 AM
I don't know why, but I've always hated flying the F4U's. Maybe it's the hood in back I don't like; rear quarter SA is kinda bad.

Love the F6F though; stable, tough, maneuverable. If only it was a tad faster.

The speed of the F4U seems better suited to me than the F6F, but I really don't like either of them at all compared to my old Jugs and 109s. It's more of "I HAVE to like a Navy plane, right?"
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: caldera on June 28, 2014, 11:39:14 AM
I don't know why, but I've always hated flying the F4U's. Maybe it's the hood in back I don't like; rear quarter SA is kinda bad.

Love the F6F though; stable, tough, maneuverable. If only it was a tad faster.

The F6F has the absolute worst rear views of any fighter in the game.  Using your keyboard, views can be adjusted to give excellent sight lines out of the F4U.  No such luck for the F6F.

Given the choice, I would rather the Hellcat had the F4U's roll rate than it's speed, any day of the week.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on June 28, 2014, 12:10:04 PM
Better than anything else we have. I guess one could make a case for the B-25, but it doesn't have those broad wings, and stepless cockpit.
(http://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/b17_aluminum_overcast.jpg)

 :aok


Better than ANYTHING German
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Widewing on June 28, 2014, 12:11:19 PM
My favorites... F6F-5, A-20G and Bf 109G-2.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t31.0-8/10273375_10204024492998012_5648524000198713028_o.jpg)

(http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/douglas-a20-havoc_6.jpg)

HTC, note the armored glass....
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7nvo_TqIqcc/ULesNRnJFYI/AAAAAAAAD9Y/7eVV8lZY7r4/s1600/417th+BG+A-20G+Green+Hornet+43-9407+Rocker.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Messerschmitt_Bf-109G-2-Trop_AN0323256.jpg)
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: TheCrazyOrange on June 28, 2014, 12:13:53 PM
(http://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/b17_aluminum_overcast.jpg)

 :aok
Better than ANYTHING German


God, it's hideous. I mean the early models without the chin turret weren't much to look at, but this takes the cake.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on June 28, 2014, 12:19:31 PM

God, it's hideous. I mean the early models without the chin turret weren't much to look at, but this takes the cake.
Can it commie!  :old:
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: GhostCDB on June 28, 2014, 01:05:24 PM
38L
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Shifty on June 28, 2014, 01:16:29 PM
(http://www.pixstel.com/fw-190a-8-n-g-fwab_pics67-6708.jpg)
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: LCADolby on June 28, 2014, 01:18:14 PM
My sweetheart......
(http://www.hitechcreations.com/wiki/images/7/71/Bf109k4.jpg)


109K4 :D
The best of the 109's IMO.  :)

The tail wheel retracts on a K4  :old: Looking at the bumps under the nose infront of the oil scoop, it actually might be a G10 pictured
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Pudgie on June 28, 2014, 02:22:17 PM
Live & die in the Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Someguy63 on June 28, 2014, 02:49:03 PM
The tail wheel retracts on a K4  :old: Looking at the bumps under the nose infront of the oil scoop, it actually might be a G10 pictured

  :( :cry
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: GScholz on June 28, 2014, 03:32:47 PM
... He-111 just because it's the best looking bomber in the game.

(http://www.luijken.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/shok-attack.jpg)


And some poetry from Pembquist:

Starting with the Spanish Civil War, in my opinion nothing says nazi bomber like an he 111. It represents cutting edge technology of the thirties, the remilitarization of Germany, aspirations of conquest and domination, and brutal narcissistic pageantry that held the rest of the world in lethal contempt. In the end it became as outmoded as the ideas and leadership of the nation that built it. And while as aesthetically complete a distillation of violence as beauty as the Hugo Boss uniforms of the German millitary, it also shared the unfortunate feature of being a very dangerous thing to be in by 1944.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Widewing on June 28, 2014, 07:24:14 PM
The tail wheel retracts on a K4  :old: Looking at the bumps under the nose infront of the oil scoop, it actually might be a G10 pictured

It is a G-10, from a Flight Journal article and photo shoot... I have the issue it appeared in.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: TheCrazyOrange on June 28, 2014, 07:54:45 PM
I demand the old G-10, that thing was a beast!
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: GScholz on June 28, 2014, 07:58:20 PM
I demand the old G-10, that thing was a beast!

How would you know Mr. May 2014?
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Karnak on June 28, 2014, 08:34:21 PM
I demand the old G-10, that thing was a beast!
It was a Bf109K-4.  If it had been a Bf109G-10 it would have been slower.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: jeffdn on June 28, 2014, 09:06:42 PM
How would you know Mr. May 2014?

Because he's Tank-Ace.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: TheCrazyOrange on June 28, 2014, 10:58:27 PM
It was a Bf109K-4.  If it had been a Bf109G-10 it would have been slower.

I can still want it though. There are times that I wish HTC was a bit less realistic.
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: GScholz on June 29, 2014, 10:55:40 AM
TANK ACE!!!  How have you been?!  :cheers:
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Blinder on June 29, 2014, 12:30:12 PM
How would you know Mr. May 2014?

Never judge a book by it's short term memory!  :old:
Title: Re: What airplane/Vehicle is your current sweetheart ?
Post by: Rich46yo on June 29, 2014, 02:57:21 PM
HE-111 is a terrific special event Bomber. I loved the BOB event.