Warbirds Thread
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PsihoKekec
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Dad taking son out for a short flight...
F-35 Lightning II and a P-51 Mustang.
F-35 Lightning II and a P-51 Mustang.
Really, should be a P38 and an F35.
bintananth
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Agreed, but there are only 10 airworthy P-38s left compared to over 100 P-51s.
Aside: A sadly deceased cousin had a story about something with a Merlin engine* circling above her home on a landing approach in the middle of the night. She thought it was a Fairey Fulmar because it was too slow to be a Spitfire, Hurricane, or Mustang. If there was one of those still flying at the time Wikipedia didn't know about it.
* She ID'd the engine by sound but couldn't make out the plane.
Duke Nukem
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Iraqi Air Force MiG-29
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While not a 'warbird', this is related. We all know there are height requirements for fighter aircraft crew, but it seems obvious that the requirements were not as strict for Bomber crewmen.
Nonetheless piloting a Heinkel 111, Ju 88 or Do-17 while being this height for long periods of time couldn't have been comfortable.
Two Luftwaffe aircrew after an attack on Bell Street in Dundee.
Nonetheless piloting a Heinkel 111, Ju 88 or Do-17 while being this height for long periods of time couldn't have been comfortable.
Two Luftwaffe aircrew after an attack on Bell Street in Dundee.
YAL-1 Airborne LASER of the USAF, based on a Boeing 747.
paulobrito
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Myasishchev M-55
The Soviet / Russian counterpart to the U-2.
It's like conjoined twins that grew up without getting separated...
Fun information about the brrrt gun/plane
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Believe it or not, the A-10 can hold its own in a dogfight - Sandboxx
Everybody knows the A-10 can bring the pain to ground targets like few aircraft in history, but the aircraft's tight turn radius and powerful gun can actually make it a force to be reckoned with in a dogfight too. The A-10 Thunderbolt II, more commonly known as the Warthog, is a legendary air...
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I've been an A10 fan since I read about them when I was a kid in the 80's. LOVE THE UGLY BEAST!Fun information about the brrrt gun/plane
Believe it or not, the A-10 can hold its own in a dogfight - Sandboxx
Everybody knows the A-10 can bring the pain to ground targets like few aircraft in history, but the aircraft's tight turn radius and powerful gun can actually make it a force to be reckoned with in a dogfight too. The A-10 Thunderbolt II, more commonly known as the Warthog, is a legendary air...
Course, I loved it even more in the Army.
bintananth
behind a desk
If you think A-10 is nice, how about this:
"Slow, but deadly" was the nickname given during WWII. It was 100mph faster than a Ju87 while fully loaded and could get large bombs aloft from an escort carrier that didn't have cataputs. Once the bombs were dropped the only limit in a dogfight was the pilot's ability to stay consious because the airframe was rated for 12g and could handle much more than that without breaking.
Dauntless pilots and back seat gunners are credited with shooting down over 130 Japanese aircraft and were sometimes used as CAP.
BTW: If I was a modern airforce pilot, which I'm thankfully not, there is no way I'd be able to outmaneuver an SBD pilot.
The SBD, like the F4F Wildcat, had 1,200 HP. The Japanese A6M2 had a 940hp engine and wasn't designed to handle the kinds of "were actually doing this" close quarters knife fights Americans call "Tuesday".
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True.I read memories of some japaneese pilot who was send in it against B.29.Some died for nothing,others wasted fuel and ammo.And it would be the same against most bombers,too.
Basically,good for digfight,but had small chances for schoot anything.In Malayan campaign they win all fights,but schoot relatively few planes becouse of that.