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Old 01-11-2004, 08:03 PM
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I am pounced by a fighter that is every bit the equal of what I am flying. The year is 1944. What are you flying and why? What did you get pounced by?

Personally, I have only about 2 hours actual flight time in a Cessna 150 so I'm not exactly qualified to discuss performance of WWII fighters, but like many modelers, I've read a lot and have come to some conclusions. For me, it would a Corsair hands down. Just seems like it had performance better than anything else flying at the time. The only enemy that would be worthy (not counting pilot skill) that I can think of would be a Focke Wulf 190.
Old 01-11-2004, 08:06 PM
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P-38 Lightning or a Jug!
Old 01-11-2004, 10:15 PM
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there I was flying my P-51 when all of a sudden out of the clouds i was jumped by a bunch of fokkers, I dove right and I dove left but those fokkers stayed right with me, what to do???? Well as I told my wingman later I flew into the clouds and got rid of those fokkers once and for all. My wing man looks at me and says those fokkers are a real bear to get rid of and I said what fokkers, they were ME-109's!!!![X(][X(]
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I looked down and that guy had his trap door open , It was a C119 unloading Grn Brt. All those umbrella's.
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To quote my favorite dog!!! KAWA BUNGA!!!!!!!! fighting slodiers from the sky and all that kind of stuff!!!!!!
Old 01-11-2004, 10:46 PM
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For Me it would be the raf spitfire hands down. An often crucial over-looked aircraft of the great war. A light and manuverable plane in all the same package and easy to fly as well. A p-51 or me-109 would high speed stall before they could "yank and bank" with a spit. Many of our boys went and flew for the RAF in ww2 and flew the spit.......................They felt like a sports car they said compared to a "jug" that they had been flying.
Old 01-11-2004, 10:57 PM
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To quote my favorite dog!!! KAWA BUNGA!!!!!!!! fighting slodiers from the sky and all that kind of stuff!!!!!!
wotsa slodier?
Old 01-11-2004, 10:59 PM
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I think the spit was a beautiful airplane and probably very quick like you say, but I'll still take my corsair against your spit. I don't know about the Jug. Just looks ugly and ungainly and probably not all that maneuverable either. My impression of it was like a flying tank. You can shoot at it and the bullets just bounce off and it probably won't catch you, but if it does, you can't do much to fight back because you can't hurt it. Sort of like the incredible hulk.
Old 01-12-2004, 12:27 AM
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To quote my favorite dog!!! KAWA BUNGA!!!!!!!! fighting slodiers from the sky and all that kind of stuff!!!!!!
wotsa slodier?
ah let's see here, maybe lousy typing skills and failure to read what one has typed with lousy typing skills!!!![]
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Caffeen, we have 2 corsairs here. The guy we used to lease our jet from has one, and another guy has one. They are both gorgous. The only think I don't like about them is when they fly over when I am teeing up or chipping. I always duff the shot. Hard to hit when you are looking up.
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Me-262 would be a cool plane to fly
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I dont know there pappy.....lol the corsair might snap out before hangin' with my spit. No really.....the corsair has plenty advantages as well......I love the spit , but none the less the corsair is beutiful......
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I'd always liked to have flown a P-61 or F7F. Kind of like the F-14s of WWII. Big, lots of power, maneuverable.

Maybe a, umm... well nothing was really close to them per say, but taking on a late model ME-110 or ME-410 might be fun, night or day.
Old 01-13-2004, 06:35 PM
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Kurt Tank was up test flying a FW 190 D9, when a few P51s were following him. He just opened the throttle and walked away.
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the Corsair looks good until you see it side on, too short, the Spit is timeless and i can't see it's desire factor dimming. Even tho it wasn't it's seen as the ultimate in elegance, looks and ability prop ww2 fighter
words have been said that the 109 was infact a better turner than the Spit, the difference was only the Germans possessing both balls could do it, where as any idiot could get the best from a Spit.
the top three desired fighters in my ww2 book would be the Spit, Mustang, P-38 followed up by the Zero and Mig 3.
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i would say spit over corsair. Spit was smaller and quicker.


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It never fought in WWII but mine would be the Grumman Bearcat. Light,short wings and a big radial.
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The first thing I saw was bombers droping flower sack on our house . Whoops they missed from 1941 to 1943 when my family moved we had bomming practice across a lake from where we lived . at one time I could identify a plane by the sound, and had them set down in the pasture. Scared the hell out of us. In 1952 I got to take a trip in a C119 box car and that is a tripe I will never for get. That is how we have oil fields all across the country and recycle got started. Great birds but we need every one of them!!!
From Lowery AFB ,to Offit, to Mitchel on Long island. Colorado to new york in 2 days. And the best thing was we had a man pop his shoot in the plane ! went from the cocpit to the trap doors.scared the hell out of all of us as if we needed any thing else.
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You are flying a P51D , Why? because you're on a bomber escort mission. The other guy is flying an FW 190 of any description. Plus, If you forgot to burn out your aft fuselage tank, and burned out the drop tank instead, you are gonna be a very dead man in short order.
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You are flying a P51D , the other guy is flying an FW 190 of any description. Plus, If you burned out your drop tank and still have the aft fuselage tank full, you are gonna be a very dead man in short order.
Well, thanks for getting me killed and everything, but I was really asking what you would want to be in?
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Well, that depends, lol, on whether or not i forgot to burn out that aft fuselage tank first. I say that only because I've read Chuck Yeager's accounts of it and a few others. A P51 that got jumped in that situation was a dead duck.
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you'd pick draggy tanks over a forward CofG.. i'm confused
i thought the idea was to burn out the tanks and then dump them to turn you from a flying gas tank into a fighter
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Yes, In some airplanes. From what I've read about the mustang tho, it was an unmanueverable sitting duck with that aft tank full, so most pilots burned it out right after takeoff. You could get rid of the drop tank at any time later, and it was considered best to hang onto it as long as possible. Personally, I'd much rather have been in a later model P47, which with drop tanks , had every bit of the mustangs range, and speed. It may have been slightly less manueverable, but there are numerous accounts of them returning from missions missing one or more jugs off the engine. One little pinhole anywhere in a mustangs cooling system, and you were about 3 minutes away from a seized engine.

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