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WWII - F4 Corsiar -

WWII / Korea - P51

I would love to fly in either one, they both were great aircraft, two different sounds but they both make the hair stand up on the back of my neck when I hear one.

F-16 the modern day version of a P-51 - I am surprised at how little mention it has here. A fantastic aircraft at a bargain price and it performs completely off the charts, probably one of the best bargains for the buck in modern fighter aircraft. I was old-school A model and I thought it was great, the newer versions are light years ahead of it.

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I'd have a hard time calling an enemy aircraft a favorite, but MiGs are cool. The red MiG 15 is Chinese, and may have been in the action when I was on Taiwan in 1958-59. Grey one is a Czech built MiG 17. Red safety cover is the cannon trigger button on the stick.

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Great thread here!

Have to go with the F-4. From the F4U Corsair to the F4 Phantoms B,C D, E, F, G, J, R, S and probably missing several!

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F-4 at air show last weekend. Also P-51C red tail.

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Paul, that looks like a TA-4 vs a Phantom. Neat little aircraft designed in the '50's for a one way trip to deliver a nuke. Fun to fly; I was lucky enough to get over 1500 hours in two different versions of the A-4.


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Thanks for the correction. You're right, of course. Guess I'm not up on the "4s".

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Originally Posted by MColeman
P-51 Mustang. All other answers are wrong. I have spoken. wink


I agree partially. I would agree fully if the OP's qustion was "which aircraft is the primary reason the entire planet doesn't speak German?"

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Three great choices Keith.....

love all 3 of those aircraft, and how well they accomplish their intended missions...

great videos, although the French Skyraider was a little tough to stomach.... great aircraft ruined with French Markings... thought the Skyraider was the most effective support Aircraft of the Vietnam Conflict...same as the Warthog in Desert Storm and the Second Gulf War...

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For me, limiting it to personal experience, it's a toss up between the first AC I ever flew in, my dad's Piper J-3 sometime in the late '40's, early '50's, or the Bamboo Bomber, the Beechcraft RC-45-J. I flew aircrew on the last flight of the last RC-45-J in the Navy.


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I dont know anything about airplanes, except they are suppose to fly.

Having shown all my airplane expertise in the above sentence... I think the A-10 is the plane that I like the most.


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F-4U Corsair

P-47 Thunderbolt.

A-10 Warthog

and finally the ME-109


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Any one of em that lands like it takes off, SLOOOWWW AND EEEASYYYYgrin


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Originally Posted by Seafire
Three great choices Keith.....

love all 3 of those aircraft, and how well they accomplish their intended missions...

great videos, although the French Skyraider was a little tough to stomach.... great aircraft ruined with French Markings... thought the Skyraider was the most effective support Aircraft of the Vietnam Conflict...same as the Warthog in Desert Storm and the Second Gulf War...


I don't think people realise what a truly remarkable aircraft the A1 was, especially as its origins was very much a WW2 design.

In its A1-H form, its listed as being able to carry 8000lb of mixed ordinance, and with a top speed of 322mph..

That compares with a B17G which would typically only carry 8000lb load on short range missions, and would usually only carry perhaps 4000lb when flying out of the UK to bomb targets in Germany..

All in all, the A1 was very impressive indeed.


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Here's an old favorite video from you tube...

everyone loves the Spitfire, but this is one of the more entertaining videos of one... in a short 30 seconds...





cool huh? really gives ya the feel of any of these WW 2 types at low level...

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Originally Posted by gunner500
Any one of em that lands like it takes off, SLOOOWWW AND EEEASYYYYgrin


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How about a Pitts landing inverted.

As great as it is in the air; the Pitts is so nasty on the ground that Hoskings joked at an aerobatics seminar, I attended, that it was actually easier to land inverted.

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It might have been posted here before but this is a pretty neat site for vintage movies about the old warbirds. Lots of actual WWII and later training films showing flight characteristics, operations, etc. Just in case you were wondering how to properly take off and land that surplus P-51 or P-38 that's been sitting in the garage. Or maybe you and your friends have been wondering just what is the proper way to rendezvous and form up for bomber escort duty, or perhaps you need to know the proper Offensive Fighter Tactics for those pesky Zeros that have been buzzing around your airstrip.

http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/index.html


Lots of DVD's for sale but he also posts a rotating series of videos for free.

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Too late to see action during the war, the F2G-1 Super Corsair sure came into its' own in later years, as a race plane. With a 50% increase in power using instead of the R 2800 engine, it was fitted with the R4360 engine with 28 cylinders.... and purrrrrty!

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I'm not a big aviation guy, hell I live 40 mins from the EAA and have never been there but if I had to chose one -



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