[Closed] Drum up a weapon (plane) from WWII

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Tin opener:

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F4U Corsair. 'The Bent Winged Bastard From Connecticut'

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flying suitcase

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pe-2

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1 - the Mosquito, 'cos it was old tech (wood and fabic) yet damned fast and fulfilled a number of roles (a bit like an Orange 5 😆 )
2 - ME 262, the first operational jet fighter so cutting edge techbut allied with sexy design!

Always liked the look of the Stuka

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Also IMO the Catalina is a beautiful looking machine.

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There has to be one, for its sheet groundbreaking leap forward:

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Lockheed P38 and Focke Wulf FW190.

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EDIT: @Rorschach - great minds...

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Pour Louis. Reposer en paix, mon vieux.

Is this going to be the Me262 and Ju87 fan club ?

Well the Lysander's already been taken 🙂
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Like the Stuka, but British. EDIT - beaten to it while I chose my second.
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And always liked this better than the Lancaster.
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slainte 😀 rob

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<edit> doh, beaten to it as well! </edit>

no, not a Sea Fury, a Hawker Tempest II. Clearly the Sea Fury had some parentage...

Got to be the Gustav

Choice of the Experten - Highest scoring fighter of all time
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dc3 and mosquito. awesome aircraft with their own amazing sound.

AndyF1 beat me to it.. The Wellington. My Grandfather made those, as well as Concord 🙂

My second..
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The Jug.

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druidh i'm sure the program Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe said a lot of those blew up on take off.

First from the land of Nippon?
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And proof that they had some exciting design ideas too.

[quote=Kuco ]druidh i'm sure the program Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe said a lot of those blew up on take off.
Mere details. Recorded a speed of almost 700mph in 1944!!

Bugger!!! All my favourites have been stolen from me! Dammit! I [i]would[/i] have chosen from; Storch/Meteor/Typhoon/Tempest/Beaufighter...
Hmmm, so, what else is there?
Oooo yes, I know!
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The beautiful but flawed Westland Whirlwind.
And an all-time favourite:
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The fabulous B-25 Mitchell

I [i]love[/i] the B-25. Nice pic.

A real tech-fest. The Uhu

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Though i have a soft spot for cadillacs
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And the Arado Blitz. The world's first operational jet bomber (not the Canberra as erroneously claimed on the Beebs jets of the 50s programme)

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The Mitchell's a lovely looking machine, especially with the long nose, gets my vote.

Or,

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Or,

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No Sunderlands yet?

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I like the baby Sunderland.

Hmm, on my phone so no photos, however, got to be the Hawker Tempest, stunning (and evil) piece of machinery. Love the whirlwind above as well.

This always impressed me, just because it's such a pretty aircraft:
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The Heinkel He-162 Volksjager, or Salamander. RAF Colerne, not far from me, used to have a museum with some really cool stuff in, including one of these. I believe it's in Duxford now. Largely wood construction, too. It [i]does[/i] have one small flaw, anyone see what it is?

Genuine LOL at Northwind!

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Polikarpov i-16 🙂

Transapp, Whirlwinds were based at RAF Colerne, where the 162 above was displayed, as it happens.

Just a shame it's not knitted, Squidlord.

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"..known as the Rat" 🙂

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Macchi 205 - not everything the Italians build is stunningly beautiful, but I like it anyway.

First up from Italy. The Greyhound.

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Beat me to it Rusty..

Well, I see the correct answers (Mosquito, Dakota, Meteor, ME-262) have all gone, so I'll throw in a candidate for most minging airborne contraption of the war, the Blohm & Voss BV-141.

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Damn, beaten too it!

Have a 153 instead:
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"[i]It does have one small flaw, anyone see what it is?[/i]"

Absence (or futility) of ejector seat, I assume...

No Ejector seat here..
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Bez, you get the no-prize! Baling out really [i]not[/i] much of an option, really, unless you want first-hand experience of a bird-strike! 😆

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OK, if we're going ugly - how about this. Examples reputedly in service (not frontline) with the RAF until 1941... (Handley Page Heyford of course)

No one's mentioned the Hawker Hurricane?
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Sink the Bismarck!

Sorry just seen that you said WW2 😉

[quote=Bez ]"It does have one small flaw, anyone see what it is?"
Absence (or futility) of ejector seat, I assume...
It [i]had[/i] an ejector seat. While the aircraft was designed to be "throwaway", the Luftwaffe was very short of experienced pilots.

How about the Curtiss XP-55?

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It was rubbish, but look at it 🙂

Well, if we're doing ugly:

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Me 323 Gigant.

And amazingly, a Lego version: 😀

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No one mentioned the Mitsubishi Zero yet?

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Or the Messerschmit 110

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Or the Heinkel 111

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Lifer, the Swordfish is entirely appropriate for WW2.

Used to do work on the one at Strathallan which is now with Fleet Air Arm.

Being a teenager daft on planes and being allowed to get hands on with the likes of Lanc, Mossie, Hurricane, Spitfire, Lysander, Avenger, Bollingbrooke, Shackleton, Battle, Hudson, Anson, Harvard and lots more was the best unpaid job ever.

Such a sad day when the collection was split.

P-51 Mustang

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On phone. Hope these pics work...

Miles M35,ain`t she pretty.

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What about the P-82?

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Westland Whirlwind. Designed by one Teddy Petter, who went on to pen the Canberra and Lightning. He knew what he was doing.

Then there was the MB5. The ultimate piston engined fighter.

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stucol - Member
Lifer, the Swordfish is entirely appropriate for WW2.

Yeah, was a comment about the relative age of it's technology, they were considered obsolete in 1938 IIRC?

This is bringiong out my model making youth...the TA152 was alway my favorite prop fighter
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Already taken, but to keep the British end up, how about this beauty...the Fairy Swordfish, hero of Taranto
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Don't think we've had the FW190 yet. I always liked the German WWII planes because they looked like what they were designed to be- efficient killing machines and the FW190 has this in spades

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Already mentioned but this was the coolest fighter in WW2, Johhny Reds Hawker Hurricane....
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Personal favourites:

The FW 189

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And the AR 196:

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The B24:
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Mine's gone - Hurricane cos my dad flew them.

Bez - Member
Well, I see the correct answers (Mosquito, Dakota, Meteor, ME-262) have all gone, so I'll throw in a candidate for most minging airborne contraption of the war, the Blohm & Voss BV-141.

early tie bomber?

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The last word in WW2 planes....

Dornier Do 335

A push-pull prop plane that was just too late for service.

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Boulton Paul Defiant

A "turret fighter" designed to shoot down unescorted bombers - not a great success due to the flawed concept but an interesting aircraft.

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Bachem Ba 349 Natter

Crazy rocket powered interceptor

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Short Stirling

Britain's first 4 engine heavy

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As previously posted in the great "can we raise a Bomber Command aircrew" thread, my "great uncle" flew those...

Seem to remember that he spoke very highly of how good an aircraft it was to fly - apart from not having the ceiling of the later heavies

He also spoke very highly of the Mossie.
Curiously, I don't remember him having the same affection for the Lanc - perhaps too much the workhorse...???