“..known as the Rat” 🙂

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

First up from Italy. The Greyhound.

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.

Damn, beaten too it!

Have a 153 instead:

“It does have one small flaw, anyone see what it is?“

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

No Ejector seat here..

Bez, you get the no-prize! Baling out really not much of an option, really, unless you want first-hand experience of a bird-strike! 😆

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?

Sink the Bismarck!

Sorry just seen that you said WW2 😉

It had 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?

It was rubbish, but look at it 🙂

Well, if we’re doing ugly:

Me 323 Gigant.

And amazingly, a Lego version: 😀

No one mentioned the Mitsubishi Zero yet?

Or the Messerschmit 110

Or the Heinkel 111

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

http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/p51variants/Home/H.Home.jpg

On phone. Hope these pics work…

Miles M35,ain`t she pretty.

What about the P-82?

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.

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


Already taken, but to keep the British end up, how about this beauty…the Fairy Swordfish, hero of Taranto

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

Flew further, faster, and higher than most fighters of the day, and packed quite a boom as well.

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

Personal favourites:

The FW 189

And the AR 196:

The B24:

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?

The last word in WW2 planes….

Dornier Do 335

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

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.

Bachem Ba 349 Natter

Crazy rocket powered interceptor

Short Stirling

Britain’s first 4 engine heavy

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…???