If You Are A P-51 Mustang Fan...

[Ura-Ki]

End thread!

Are you sure? Really really sure?

 

[mrblond]

a little trivia, 1st P51 squadron trained at Mcnary field in Salem.

 

[JeremyK]

Makes me sad they no longer have any of these classic Warbirds at the Evergreen museum in McMinnville...

 

[Steel Head]

Are you sure? Really really sure?
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You may proceed!

 

[titsonritz]

a little trivia, 1st P51 squadron trained at Mcnary field in Salem.

I did not know that, spent plenty of time at the Flight Deck and Duffy's Hanger, though.

 

[Ura-Ki]

I think I knew that, I DO know that Portland and K-Falls was a major training bases for Pilot Training prior to deployment to Europe with P-38's and P-40's as well as B-26 and P-61 squadrons!
Some where on the back side of Mt. Hood is a crashed B-26 and out on the coast they recently found a Crashed P-38, and I know where the B-29 is and the B-17 are! Supposed to be a B-24 on the coast some where as well, but I don't think it's been found yet!

 

[Baseacegoku]

I love the mustang but I'm gonna have to stop you right there, because the F4U was the sexiest WW2 fighter ever created. It also had a longer production run and was more feared by it enemies.

 

[mrblond]

I love the mustang but I'm gonna have to stop you right there, because the F4U was the sexiest WW2 fighter ever created. It also had a longer production run and was more feared by it enemies.

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How can someone not love the F4u though, specially when you got this to watch as a kid.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Cant say NO to "Whistling Death" Neat-O design trying to fix a unique problem!
How about the heaviest armed propeller driven airplane of all time? Fighter, sure, over 280 German and Jap fighters were shot down by them. Also good at dropping bombs, launching lots of rockets, and attacking shipping in the pacific!
I give you the glorious A-26, tell me this lady isn't sexy!

Thats 14 .50 BMG's installed, and could carry 4 more in under wing pods with ammo! Could also install a pair of 20 mm cannon in blisters along the nose!
A-10 WHAT?

 

[revjen45]

"A good read, but I'm partial to the P-47's myself."

Yesterday I had the pleasure of watching a P-47 and a P-51 fly over the house in formation. Seeing a B-25 is pretty common.
We live close enough to Paine Field to see a lot of what comes and goes there.

 

[revjen45]

Here is the most ferocious propeller driven fighter ever made. Like a lot of the advanced designs at the end of WW2 it wasn't in series production by the end of festivities.




Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the magnificent DO-335.
Fastest propeller-driven fighter ever made. Sehr Schoen, nicht wahr?

• Maximum speed: 475.35 mph
• Range: 1,274 miles
• Maiden flight: Oct 1943
• Length: 45 feet 5 inches
• Wingspan: 45 feet 3 inches

Both engines are on CL of the airframe, could cruise with one feathered. Could also be a 2-place night fighter heavily armed with cannons and radar. It would have been effective against the P-51.


Numerous versions in development including this monster:



For those interested in obscure aviation developments in the 3rd Reich check out
Luft '46 - WWII German aircraft projects

 

[Ura-Ki]

Well, if were going all German, then I give you FW-TA 154
THE German answer to the Mosquito! Every bit as fast, and every bit as dangerous!
4 20mm cannon, or 4 30mm cannon! Things would have been must worse for the allies had the Germans be able to build more of these!

Sadly, None survived the war!

 

[Mike_M57]

You want obscure German aircraft? How about the Heinkle HE-111 Zwilling?

I had a plastic model of this one when I was young. Always wanted to make an R/C version using 5 4-stroke engines. Imagine the sound of THAT at your local R/C field!

 

[Ura-Ki]

I like One-Off fighters and prototypes from that era and after!

Imagine a bunch of these nasty little buggers suddenly appearing, would ruin your whole day!

 

[MrRob96]

For badass combat aircraft design, P-47 takes it.

If you want to talk about opposition, then this little baby I think is the nearest German equivalent to the jug, and my second favorite of WWII. A models only please.

 

[Ura-Ki]

That 190 was a big surprise to the Brits when first encounters, nothing could catch it down low or could turn with it!

Agreed, the early "A" series up to -6 were about the best!

 

[Ura-Ki]

How about a late war Griffin powered Spitfire? Sure is a sexy looking fighter!

 

[ZigZagZeke]

I know the P-51 well and that is spelled the end of Nazis. With drop fuel tanks the fighter planes did not have turn back when the B-17 flew bombing missions over Europe. With that said I like the P-47 Thunderbolt better. Eight .50 caliber machines guns, unguided rockets, and can carry bombs made it made formidable fighter/bomber. Also it had armor to protect the pilot and the cockpit was roomy compared to the P-51 cockpit too.

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Somebody put a P-38, P-47, and a P-51 in a blender. They called the result an A-10:

 

[Ura-Ki]

Sandy Two Six, Cleared hot, Danger Close, bring the pain! Nape and strafe the Chit out of them for us!

Roger, Two Six inbound, Get in your hole!

 

[revjen45]

Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Tank was a genius of aeronautical design.
Let's look at the ultimate embodiment of the FW-190 concept: the Ta-152.



When jumped by several P-51s in an unarmed Ta-152 Prof. Tank just stepped on the gas and left them behind.

• Maximum speed: 472.24 mph (almost as fast as the Do-335)
• Range: 746 miles
• Maiden flight: 1944
• Length: 35 feet 6 inches
• Wingspan: 47 feet 5 inches

Good thing the Reich got shut down* before they could bring their technology to fruition. Imagine Allied bomber streams being under attack by Ta-152, Do-335, Me-262, He-162s go after the bombers and coordinating their efforts. Ta-152s engaging the escorts while the Anteaters and Jets slash through the bomber stream shooting down one or two on every pass.

* Schicklgruber was a full-on junkie by the time things were really rolling on the Eastern Front, as well as an enthusiastic consumer of the world's finest pharmaceutical speed. Heavy duty opioids combined with world class Zoom does not make for clear thought.

And now for the only "airplane" more dangerous to the pilot than the Me-163 Komet:



In essence a solid fuel rocket with a pilot, auto-pilot controlled for launch and ascent.

• Maximum speed: 1,000 km/h (621 mph; 540 kn) at 5,000 m (16,404 ft)
• Cruise speed: 800 km/h (497 mph; 432 kn)
• Range: 60 km (37 mi; 32 nmi) after climb at 3,000 m (9,843 ft)

55 km (34 mi)after climb at 6,000 m (19,685 ft)
42 km (26 mi)after climb at 9,000 m (29,528 ft)
40 km (25 mi)after climb at 10,000 m (32,808 ft)

• Endurance: 4.36 minutes at 6,000 m (19,685 ft)

3.15 minutes at 9,000 m (29,528 ft)

• Service ceiling: 12,000 m (39,000 ft)
• Rate of climb: 190 m/s (37,000 ft/min)
• Time to altitude: 62 seconds to 12 km (7.5 mi)

All the rockets in the nose were to be fired in one blast like a shotgun.

I would love to see a CG simulation of a mission by the Adder.