Favorite Airplane

[BrucePowers]

What is your favorite aircraft of WWII.

Mine is the DeHavilland Mosquito. What's not to like about 2 Rolls Royce Merlins, 4 20mm cannons and 4 .303 Browing machine guns. All of that in a plywood airframe that can do 378 mph with a one way range of about 1,400 miles. On top of that it has some of the nicest lines of any aircraft ever built.

Edited for spelling (I really need to do these in word first.)

[2ndACR]

G55 Centaro. For some reason I have always liked that a/c.

The Corsair runs a very close second.

The MC205 runs a close 3rd.

[goodwoodrw]

Don't laugh A Boulton-Paul Defiant pretty useless piece of equipment i just liked its config ( it was one of my first modells Airfix 1:72)
I like Beaufighters as well

[BrucePowers]

I like your response BASB. I asked what your favorite airplane was, not necessarily what you thought was the best. I have liked the Mosquito since I saw the movie 636 Squadron on TV in the early 70's. I just like the airplane.

I want to go to Wisconson someday. I understand Kermit Weeks has one in flying condition up there. He has a Short Sunderland Flying Boat at his Fantasy of Flight museum between Tampa and Orlando which I will be seeing sometime this spring.

[DeepSix]

The P-40, of course.[:)]

[Stavka_lite]

One of my favorites is the Corsair, just a cool looking aipplane and I think it is better than the P-51. I also think the Sb2c4 Helldiver is pretty cool. Its just a monster.

[janushm]

the.............hurricane

[Hornblower]

f4u corsair for Fighter. B-25J for Bomber...

[m10bob]

Just about anything Airfix made in the 60's..Vickers Wellington,Westland Lysander,andthe Brewster Buffalo(which was by Revell).
Also liked the Fokker D 21,(which should also be in this game and isn't.**I just remembered this tidbit!!!!!**[:D]

[drstat]

My favorite plane has always been the P-61 Black Widow. With a name like that, how can you go wrong?? The F4U Corsair is a close second.

[Dutchgy2000]

Fokker G.1

Better then what i am stuck with in the dutch east indies every time i start a game as allies.

[Dutchgy2000]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Just about anything Airfix made in the 60's..Vickers Wellington,Westland Lysander,andthe Brewster Buffalo(which was by Revell).
Also liked the Fokker D 21,(which should also be in this game and isn't.**I just remembered this tidbit!!!!!**[:D]

uhmm... no they shouldn´t be:

In 1934 the KNIL (the Dutch army department in Indonesia) had plans for a new fighter and Fokker went to work. On February 17th 1936, just ten days before the first flight of the prototype, the KNIL announced there was more need for a bomber than a fighter. The prototype was then made available for evaluation by the LVA (Royal Netherlands Air Force). At Soesterberg, the LVA tested the D.21 and found it suitable and ordered 36 Fokker D.21's.

Even before the dutch order, the Finnish ordered seven D.21's and later in the war 90 more were build on licence. The Fokker D.21's where used by the Finns during the war with Russia with great success. Denmark ordered two D.21's and build 10 on license, when the Germans attacked Denmark, all D.21's where destroyed before takeoff.

At the first day of the invasion 28 of the 36 D.21's where battleready. Eleven where stationed at De Kooy, eight at Ypenburg and nine at Schiphol airport. 64 sorties where flown by the D.21's that day. On one mission 38 three engine Junkers Ju.52's crossing the Dutch border where shot down. The following four days the D.21's didn't manage to shoot down more Germans because the number of battleready planes decreased rapidly. During the five days of the war 20 Fokker D.21's where lost. Eight in dogfights, eight on the ground, two by friendly anti-aircraft fire and two crash landed. Several D.21's fell into the hands of the Germans.

[crsutton]

Boeing P26 "Peashooter". Just so ugly that it is way cool[8D] They have a beautiful fully restored one at the New Smithsonain Air and Space Annex in Dulles Virginia..


http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/ai ... ingp26.htm

[KPAX]

Why the P-38 Lighting.

What a novel, and sucessful plane, and pretty cool looking too .....

[captskillet]

Why the B-29 Superfort..whats not to like about burning Tokyo to the ground [;)] [:D] !!

As far as fighters go the Corsair I guess but why no love for the 'flying jug' P-47...nothing could outdive it, 8 .50 cal MG aint shabby...decent range and speed... but the kicker was its toughness..... you could shoot cylinders off the engine and STILL fly that bad boy home.

[freeboy]

Ok, takingthis from a little different slant.. as in what plan do I like in Witp land... as JAp I love those long range twin e's the Betties.. come on down and see them sink the Allied fleeds in the early war!

For the Allies, it is the 17 and 24 models... and of course late in war the 29.. bombing the hell out of Zeta 16 is the only think keeping me in my pbem game

[byron13]

Tough one. For bombers, the B-17 is it for me. What a heroic, tough old bird.

Fighters. Toughey. For the Pacific, I'd have to say the P-38, though that's more a remnant of my childhood reading. I've got a real soft spot for the P-39, though, and the Jug is a favorite in the ETO. The Wildcats and Hellcats simply had no personality.

[rhondabrwn]

I add my vote for the Mosquito! My favorite plane to fly in any flight sim that offers it!

[fbastos]

Ha!

Ho-229, by far!

[ChezDaJez]

I've always been partial to the early Spitfires, before they clipped the wings. I just think it is about one best looking warbirds ever made, and didn't perform too badly either.

Chez