Ram-bro

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I have a bet going on how many warbirds that had trike gear and I can only think of 11 warbirds that had trike gear during WW2, they are the P39, P63, P38 Me-262, B24, B25,A20 havoc, b26, A26. and the B29. Outside of cargo and observation types am I missing anything?

Chad Veich

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P-61 Black Widow

I'm sure there are many, many others depending on just how obscure you want to get. The British "Albermarle" medium bomber/recon bird and the German Ar-234 jet bomber for instance.

Chip_Mull

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Consolidated PB4Y2

Iron Dog

Ram-bro,

Here are11 more that I can think of:

British: Gloster Meteor

German: He219, Do335, Ta154

Japanese: Kyushu J7W1

Swedish: Saab J21A

American: PBY5 Catalina, F7F Tigercat, Bell P-59 Airacomet

And someAmerican experimental types: Northrop YB35 Flying wing, McDonnell XP-67 "Moonbat",

Brad330l

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Late WWII maybe??

Gloster E28 Whittle

Brad

Edwin

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B32 Dominator?
Edwin

Evil_Merlin

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How could anyone forget about the He 162?

Edwin

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HE-162
You're right, hang my head in shame.
Edwin

dragoonpvw

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Nakajima G8N Renzan, j8n Kitsuka , vampire, curtiss 24b, and xp 54, 55,and 56. Lots more experimental types on all sides.

ARUP

My favorite 'nosedragger'- P-63. There were even 'target' aircraft, like the Culver, that were of this type.

Ram-bro

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heck, I hang my head in shame.....forget the experimentals and the almost made it in the war, there were alot more than I imagined......I thought I did good with 11 by myself. Heck I even have the 335 and I didnt even mention that one.I guess I will loose this bet[:@]

Check6

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Hey Tony,
You probably mentioned more than you think!!. If you would lose that Nebraska accent we would understand your ramblings more clearly. LOL
Later,
Fred

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Ram-bro

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Fred , you still hanging around? I havent seen anything of yours in th eclassifieds lately, you rebuilding your stock? Been working on your Hurricane, got the batteries finally. I will probably fly her b4 I paint her

TFF

Me309

Ram-bro

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now this is one I have never seen. Looks like Willie learned hi slessons and tried to fix that narrow landing gear problem that the 109 had. This looks like a cleaned up and modernized version of the 109. Anyone know why it wasn't produced?

BadSplice

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That plane looks to me like what you would get if a P-51 and an ME-262 got together and had babies

(couldn't resist)

dvs1

Ram Bro, thats the Me-309 designed early in the war to relace the Me-109 but due to the fact the performance wasnt that much better and the 109 could still out turn the 309 the Luftwaffe canceled the project. Its speed was actually about 50 mph faster, but due to the fact that after fully armed its performance suffered to the point that it really wasnt any better than the 109. If i remember right instead the Luftwaffe chose the FW-190 as the replacement fighter. It looks sweet though!

da Rock

The performance that suffered wasn't just turn radius. The 109 already sucked for duration and range. Add weight, then add more horsepower to lift the weight, and finally top that off by taking away room inside the fuselage for the extra wheel and retract mechanism. It was almost worthless, even as an interceptor, because it was out of gas about the time it reached the bombers it was tasked to shoot down. It would have had to be posted to airfields where the bomber streams would pass so would have been a tactical pita.... and easily avoided.

G-Pete

just looks like a P-51 concept...hmmm....could that explain the short development....hmmm....that's something

IL2windhawk

Wow!
That me309 would be a dynamite choice for an RC plane. Would look so sweet on a flyby..

Ram-bro

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looks to me that you could take a 109 fuse and modify it and the wing and use a 262 canopy add trike gear and there you have it......uhmmmmmmmm

glazier808

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Here ya go...alittle earlier version....

lets say its a work in progress....



Casey

glazier808

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another shot

DGM

HMMMMM/// Did the nose gear rotate 90 degrees when it retracted?? Note the strut and wheel cover in the photos.