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A Squadron of New Spitfires Anyone

MIG-3 is a really nice design. The lines really flow nicely. The P-38 was pre-WWII and based off the P-40. Considering it was really past its prime at the beginning of WWII, it was still very effective in the more limited roles it played than originally designed for.

It could easily have been the 110 I was thinking of as I am not really into WWII aircraft as I am ex-Navy and a submariner and decided that route as it was well known that submarines picked up more pilots than pilots picked up submariners.
 
Yeah I know, obsolete by 1940....but just LOOK at this thing! It's still scary today even if you aren't aware of what it represents to so many. The huge engine bay like the head of a pit bull... giant chin intake that looks like a great white shark about to swallow it's victim...fixed wheels that resemble an eagle's talons...it's like something from the Terminator.
 

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The Stukas also had a "Psy-Ops" feature built in...The terrifying "Screaming" noise they made when they closed in for the kill....
 
Then there was the RAF ace who was addressing a ladies luncheon and telling them how many Fokkers he has shot down.

The head of the ladies group hastened to tell the group that the Fokker was a German aircraft.

The ace said "Yes they are but these fokkers were Messerschmidts."
 
Cool thing about the P-51 is that it went essentially from a drawing on the back of an envelope to a prototype in like 90 days.

My favorite fighter? Easy. Grumman F7F Tigercat. A pair of R-2800s churning out 2200 HP apiece, incredibly slim fuselage...just gorgeous with a sound to match: (Good computer sound is a major bonus here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IM6nXsdQc

Favorite bomber? Easy. Douglas A-26 Invader. Once again a big twin sporting R-2800s and a perfectly-realized design:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9CETgU2WwQ&feature=related
 
One of the great stories of the P-47 was when one pilot alone in a shot up Thunderbolt was just trying to get back to England. When a 190 started to try and finish the job there was nothing he could do but take it. 190 ran out of ammo. The Jug was so badly damaged the German could have flipped it over with his wing and the P-47 wouldn't have been able to recover. The German pilot came along side shaking his head as he surveyed the damage, waved and then turned for home. I believe if I remember right there were well over 100 holes in the Jug. Heck there were P-47's that had a jug shot off the radial engine and made it back
 
This would have been quite a plane but the PM, Diefenbaker, cancelled it and all the designers left Avro and headed south. I believe many were involved in the design of the F15. Avro Arrow.

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electronjohn said:
Very neat, Rob. Kinda reminds me of a Convair F-106.
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But with a whole different level of performance. The US had nothing that came close until the F-15, 15 years later. Actually, no one did.

The head design guys did some notable work. Jim Floyd was involved in the design work of the Concorde.

Jim Chamberlain went to NASA and was head of th Mercury program, head of Gemini, designed the Gemini capsule, and was heavily involved with Apollo. So yes, a Canuck help put America on the moon.
 
MY GAWD I can't believe no one offered up the HOT ROD of the bunch. What you guys don't love PISTONS and POWER???


Sure she never got her chance to case Kamakazi's but still. Theres no way to deny the one true hot rod.

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Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat

Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney R-2800-34W "Double Wasp" two-row radial engine, 2,100 hp (1,567 kW)

Maximum speed: 455 mph (405 kn, 730 km/h)
Range: 1,105 mi (1,778 km)
Service ceiling: 40,800 ft (12,436 m)
Rate of climb: 6,300 ft/min (32.0 m/s)
Power/mass: 0.22 hp/lb (360 W/kg)




And held the climb to altitude record

as a demonstration at the Cleveland Air Race, November 22, 1946. An F8F-1 piloted by Comdr. Bill Leonard set a new time to climb record, from a dead stop to 10K feet in 97.8 seconds, including a 150 foot take off run. Unfortunately, he didn't get to keep the record very long. Lieut. Comdr. Butch Davenport came along about 15 minutes later and set the next new record of 94 seconds, also in an F8F-1 in a 115 foot take off run.

Now thats a Hot ROD
 
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I was gonna mention the Bearcat...They RULED the Unlimited air races for quite awhile...Too bad they never got to show what they could do in combat...
 
Instructions to the design crew at the Grumman Ironworks re the F8F: Squeeze the biggest engine possible into the smallest airframe possible.

Looks like it worked!
 
I read in the news this morning that it's a go for exhuming the spitfires and take them back the England. I hope they film and document every step and make a good movie out of it.
 
Mark W. said:
MY GAWD I can't believe no one offered up the HOT ROD of the bunch. What you guys don't love PISTONS and POWER???


Now thats a Hot ROD
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And what is the vought corsair, a grocery getter???lol

the 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) 18-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial
 
Sandy G said:
The Stukas also had a "Psy-Ops" feature built in...The terrifying "Screaming" noise they made when they closed in for the kill....
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Can be heard in "The Wall" after "in the flesh", people think it's an air raid siren, it is not, it's a stuka!
 
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