26.06.2012, 17:04
Hi,
I do not really have an overall favorite WW2 aircraft.
Focke Wolf 200 looked wonderful in flight. It had a beautiful airframe.
Bf-109s and Spitfires were great handling aircraft, especially early and mid-war versions.
P-39s were actually effective boom and zoom fighters in low or middle altitudes with devastating firepower, particularly the P-39Ns. The Russians proved them to be effective. The P-39N1 is my favorite fighter to fly in combat. All I need is one burst from the guns and you are likely in pieces. The plane handles well in some maneuvers at good speed. It is only is a stable gun platform when the pilot maintains speed which keeps the pilot in the zoom and boom tactical strengths of this fighter.
B-29 was a war winning design and this bomber looks the way a long range bomber should have looked.
Yak 3 was a great dog fighting plane in skilled hands.
La-7 was performance dominant on the Eastern front over German fighters but deployed in significant numbers later in the war.
Me 262 could have staggered the day light bombing campaign of the Allies had it not been for Nazi (mostly Hitler) blunders with it. Here is another amazing looking aircraft.
Ki - 61 is so enjoyable to fly and fight in it.
Fireskull
I do not really have an overall favorite WW2 aircraft.
Focke Wolf 200 looked wonderful in flight. It had a beautiful airframe.
Bf-109s and Spitfires were great handling aircraft, especially early and mid-war versions.
P-39s were actually effective boom and zoom fighters in low or middle altitudes with devastating firepower, particularly the P-39Ns. The Russians proved them to be effective. The P-39N1 is my favorite fighter to fly in combat. All I need is one burst from the guns and you are likely in pieces. The plane handles well in some maneuvers at good speed. It is only is a stable gun platform when the pilot maintains speed which keeps the pilot in the zoom and boom tactical strengths of this fighter.
B-29 was a war winning design and this bomber looks the way a long range bomber should have looked.
Yak 3 was a great dog fighting plane in skilled hands.
La-7 was performance dominant on the Eastern front over German fighters but deployed in significant numbers later in the war.
Me 262 could have staggered the day light bombing campaign of the Allies had it not been for Nazi (mostly Hitler) blunders with it. Here is another amazing looking aircraft.
Ki - 61 is so enjoyable to fly and fight in it.
Fireskull