Anyone else here like WWII planes as much as I do?

[Sgt Freezer]

Gotta give love to an overlooked beast, P-61 Blackwidow. The USA's only true night fighter. Three man crew, four forward firing cannon, and a top remote control turret with four .50's, also about the size of a medium bomber. Does it get any better than that?

 

[Toacrabman]

Id have to agree with all of you on those. Except the tertles, they are boring

The P-61, love it, its a big P-38 with a crew and a bigger load

The b-25, love it, specially the ones with the 75mm, only plane on the allied side with a 75 wasnt it?
I know the German Ju-88 could use a 75mm, or 50mm, and even four 37mm's and with all forward firing arnament, since there
was no bombs the bombsight in the nose would be replaced with a 20mm turret. Also i love the Ju-88 night fighter and heavy fighter variants, with the solid nose full of cannons. They would actually paint the solid metal nose to look like glass, so the allied forces could not tell the heavy fighter Ju-88's from the standard bombers, and their strategy for dealing with the bombers was to attack head on where there was usually only one turret.

Id have to say my favorite nightfighter would go to the the Messerschmitt 262 and Arado 234 variants.

On to the B-17, it carried less than a Ju-88, but it had enough defensive arnament to go un-escorted.
Its a great feeling to walk into a B-17, its like three schoolbuses in a row, but filled with guns.

 

[Boba Fett]

Anyone been to EAA Airventure in Oshkosh WI? best...week...ever... Everywhere you go, there is a Prat and Whitney turning and burning....

 

[Toacrabman]

Im nowhere near there
When i get the cars back i plan to go to the air and space museam up in washington.
A tree in my yard blew over and flattened my van, and the jetta, which had no insurance.
im waitin for the van to be fixed up.

 

[Josiahmann]

Id have to agree with all of you on those. Except the tertles, they are boring

D: How can you not like turtles?!?!?!?!?

Also, before my Dad crashed his Kitfox III, I went to the Oshkosh airshow with his partners family.

 

[ForgedReclaimer]

Love them, every darn one. I have quit a few models i built and a nice big painting of a P-38 in the room.


My favourite fighters are in a four way tie that i could never put in order if i tried.
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (love that big babe and its modern counterpart)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning (need i say anything about it)
Supermarine Spitfire (one of the best fighters a pilot could sit in during WWII)
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (awesome piece of German engineering, a good match for any spitfire)

Bombers in order.
1.Avro Lancaster (no plane more worthy for the Damn Buster Raid than this beauty)
2.B-17 Flying Fortress (Good looks, good power and able to fly home with half its parts still over enemy lines)
3.Consolidated B-24 Liberator (i love its style, i thinks it looks incredible)


Not related, my favourite plan of all time is the CF-105 AVRO ARROW, ahead of its time and a beauty at that, to me at least.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

On to the B-17, it carried less than a Ju-88, but it had enough defensive arnament to go un-escorted.
Its a great feeling to walk into a B-17, its like three schoolbuses in a row, but filled with guns.

That's definitely true. A B-17 landed at the airport, once, and the group of flyboys who were flying it let my family look around inside, because they knew of my grandfather, who once co-owned and restored a Super Constellation, which now flies in Switzerland, I think.

Those things are bristling with .50. Covered from every angle, with guns. There were B-17s with more kills than the later fighter wings.

 

[Spitfire22V]

I'm a HUGE WWII airplane fan. Obviously, you should be able to tell how much I love the Spitfire! :cool I love going to airshows, and I feel extremely lucky to live so close to the Smithsonian NASM, as well as the Udvar-Hazy center. Sometimes I think I really should have lived in that era to be a fighter pilot.

 

[Toacrabman]

A little update, my 1/72nd Messerschmitt 262 came today,
and so did a large box of 1/72nd luftwaffe airfield crew.

I also got a 1/72nd scale A-10, which i will scratchbuild a runway for to go on my desk.
I might do the same with the 262.

 

[matth101]

WWII era planes are the best creations in aviation!! Favorites: Fighter: F4U Corsair (grandfather flew one) Bomber: B17. Also like the TBF Avenger cause my other grandfather was on one. Ugly and slow but torpedo bombing was pretty epic and he earned 3 Distinguished Navy Flying Crosses in the aircraft in his Pacific tour of duty

 

[Sangheili811]

WWII era planes are the best creations in aviation!! Favorites: Fighter: F4U Corsair (grandfather flew one) Bomber: B17. Also like the TBF Avenger cause my other grandfather was on one. Ugly and slow but torpedo bombing was pretty epic and he earned 3 Distinguished Navy Flying Crosses in the aircraft in his Pacific tour of duty

I saw a TBF at the Intrepid Air and Space Museum. Pictures and videos don't do justice to just how stinkin' BIG that plane is!

 

[Jester1014]

P-38 "Lightning" and FW-190 Folker-Wulf, Got to sit in a private owned one up at the Dayton airshow, weather was bad so the owner wasn't flying it at all.

Two of my favs, yea i said it, The bad guys had one seriously bada$$ aircraft.

 

[Spitfire22V]

I saw a TBF at the Intrepid Air and Space Museum. Pictures and videos don't do justice to just how stinkin' BIG that plane is!

I was also surprised at how big they are! I walked up to one and it just kept getting bigger and bigger. Standing next the main landing gear, I could pretty much still walk under it without crouching!

P-38 "Lightning" and FW-190 Folker-Wulf, Got to sit in a private owned one up at the Dayton airshow, weather was bad so the owner wasn't flying it at all.

Two of my favs, yea i said it, The bad guys had one seriously bada$$ aircraft.

No shame in it, I also love German WWII planes because quite simply, they were incredible planes. I also love the Focke-Wulf, and I actually have a 1/7th scale RC model of a D9 model 190 half built. I can't wait to finish it sometime, though I've put off all my RC planes recently due to space and time constraints. I like to tell people that I intend to own a BMW car because I'm a fan of the fact that BMW engines powered Fw-190's! :cool

 

[Toacrabman]

Lol nice my family has a karmann ghia Cabriolet (convertible ) i hope to finish someday.....

 

[Jester1014]

Wow Spit, I haven't seen a Dora9 at any of our RC airshows here, I bet that little sucker books. Mostly the folks in this area all fly p40's or p51's, anything with an Iron cross gets shunned off the field. Though one person did paint a Me-109s the same colors as a British ace would carry, and not many got naggy but a few were butt heads about it. Of course the 109's pilot was no amatuer, he flew circles around them and just irritated people, it was pretty funny.

 

[0235]

i used to be a huge fan of WWII era aircraft, the liberatior, flying fortress and super fortress being some of the ones i liked the most. i also had quite a love for some of hilarious russian bi-planes that they were still using quite regularly, but recently i have moved onto loving the horrible billion dollar modern jets, mainly due to my connections with having to teach what these modenrn aircraft are for aircraft recognition, which is a shame, as there were alot of beautiful technological achivements in WWII

 

[Tyvern]

Vindicator A.K.A. Vibrator(torpedeo plane)

B-17G Flying Fortress

P-51D Mustang

Supermarine Spitfire Mk.X

SBD Daughtless Divebomber

TBD Avenger Torpedeo bomber

Nakagima B5N2 "Kate" torpedeo plane

P40E Warhawk

and the last but not least: Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 21 Zero-sen

 

[HushB170]

My favorites include the P51D Mustang, the Corsair and the Supermarine Spitfire. Looking through this thread brought me back to the original Combat Flight Simulator for the the PC. such a good game

 

[Toacrabman]

I was gonna get Il-2 Sturmovik for PC at some point. I can download the Messerschmitt 262, paint it in interceptor colors, and see if i can modify the skin to add the rocket tubes, and maybe a RATO rocket pack. That or help my friends with some Luft 46 type planes.

 

[Patryn]

WWII show at the local airport. Click on images for bigger pictures...