Favorite aircraft of WWII.
It's the F4U Corsair for me.
I like the F4U, the P-38, the B-17, and the Catalina.
>>30430667
german reporting in
>>30430667
Good taste
>>30430698
Great taste, its a shame the P-38 was so damn expensive to produce
LAGG, as anyone who's played Wart Hunder can tell you.
>>30431428
When I still played the YaK 9T was my choice. 30mm fridge launcher all day long
>>30430667
It's a big plane.
>>30431502
f4u
>>30431462
>>30431428
>Not having every single Soviet flying machine
>Not praising with all of your being the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
So fast when it came out it didn't even need guns nothing could catch it
>>30430667
It sucked ass when it was produced and only shot down National Chink P-51s but boy did it look good doing so.
>>30431553
Honestly the Me 262 could have been much better had the designers put the engines like the MiG-9.
Fuckhard to maintain though.
>>30431524
Man the grind became too much and I'm too Jewish to pay to speed it up
>>30431553
>>30431568
>MiG-9
I remember IL-2's '46 campaign as well
>>30431584
Just talisman the Yak-9P desu, much cheaper than shilling out to a premium plane.
SKYTRAIN
>>30430704
German engineering approved
>>30430704
so sexy
gibs me benis get hrd
>you will never bomb german cities in a comfy b-17 shooting down inferior kraut ""aircraft""
STUKA
>>30431806
>comes built with rape whistle
how thoughtful
Best carrier-based fighter coming through.
>>30430667
F-22
>>30430667
BT-7
The Corsair is beautiful.
If i had disgusting amounts of money however it'd be a PBY Catalina and some flying lessons.
>>30431797
>t. 60% white
the man said favorite
The little huntress!
Favorite? Or best?
Fuck it. It's both.
Big photo gallery of WWII hardware I shot while at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum's WWII Weekend.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO--w8mGmH9CVppQS8o98Q68a2skOxdlHjYiJti73Vh0InoxW0zU49CxS_SDglB3g?key=cWpwRUJQcVlTc2N5U1JaZ1p6aklMZm1qdG1CREx3
Definietely PZL P11c, because of beautiful seagul style wings.
>>30434092
>t. two time world war loser
>>30430667
In War Thunder I would call that the Bane Plane.
For you.
PBY-5a Catalina
Something about seaplanes and flying boats just gets me rock fucking hard.
>>30432185
Despite not being spectacular in any way shape or form, It's got the sexiest cockpit of any of em.
>>30433328
Dont even get me started. I've got a very vivid fantasy about exactly what I'd do with a Pby 5 catalina.
[spoiler]It'd be a flying /k/ partyboat, and it would be fucking awesome.[nospoilersonk]
>>30432185
202 is good, but i like the upgunned 205
>>30436016
Don't forget the "LAGOON TRADING COMPANY" fuselage art and a home port somewhere in WESPAC or SOUWESPAC.
>>30431428
>>30431462
>>30431524
You mean GLORIOUS MOTHERLAND SIMULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!
F4U 4ever
P-51 is cool too, so is the 190.
Shitty nip paper planes need not apply.
https://youtu.be/v5jdix_w5Ag
>>30436071
Oh it would be a flying pirate ship. I'll even design my own variation on the skull and crossbones. it'll be equipped with a full loadout of .30 and .50 machine guns, however the interior will get a complete makeover. Leather seats, some nice carpet, a mini-bar, a hook below the tail for waterskiing, you name it. Hell, I'll even plaster the rear with a handful of tasteless bumper stickers.
>>30431524
>>30431584
Don't even bother playing jets, module grind is the most soul crushing aspect of the game.
Congratulations, here's your new fighter!
It's a complete piece of shit unless you pay a bunch of money for it to not be useless!
Or you can suffer through a hundred matches of getting your shit pushed in.
>>30430667
I wish I could glimpse into the universe where Germany had won, only to see the amazing shit they'd make.
>>30431428
>Russian bias
I love all aircraft, so here's my top 5:
1. Mustang
2. Hellcat
3. Catalina
4. Skytrain
5. Flying Fortress
>>30434834
My grandpa saw a navy black cat once. Said they were tough as hell and ballsy
>>30434834
A real shame the only BV 238 was destroyed.
>ctrl-f
>Lancaster
>no results
I can't be the only one.
>>30431703
Engines sucked ass tho.
why no bf110 love? G-4 is most sexy
Now for a Man's naval aircraft
>>30430667
Not my favourite, but posting because everyone forgets about Frank.
>>30436494
>Pearl Harbor was literally throwing paper airplanes at a volcano
>>30434199
Jealous of my grandfather. He had a painting of a spitfire signed by the engineers, designers and pilots from ww2.
Got a rare one
He-112
Performance meh but the looks god damn
![1301425230121[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hBmNSbN.jpg "1301425230121[1].jpg")
>>30430667
my favorite is the FW 190A-8, followed by the F4U, then the P47, the Spitfire and then the Yak 9 and finally the HE 162 just because it was an amazing devolepment for a last ditch plane. for bombers its B17, lancaster, HE111(gotta love the trips) B24, and then stuka
>>30436490
tht is sexy what is it
>>30430667
Not my favorite but it is up there
>>30436161
Except that much of their technology was copied and improved after the war
Yak-3. Easy to make, easy to maintain, easy to pilot, and a good fighter in almost every aspect.
>>30437666
FW-190 CONFIRMED AS THE PLANE SATAN WILL USE TO TAKE EARTH
My favorite fighter is the P-47M and for bombers it's got to be the B-29
>>30437728
Btd-1
outdated, but never outclassed
>>30438242
But the Swordfish was mediocre at best...
>>30438249
name one other plane capable of anti submarine warfare off of MACs with the level of efficiency that the swordfish provided.
I love the P-47 Thunderbolt.
>that durability
>that rear mounted turbocharger
>that R-2800
>those 8 M2 .50s
>>30434199
Aye, lad!
>>30438347
TBM-3S Avenger
I like the Typhoon and Tempest for the same reason I like the Thunderbolt: they kill shit on the ground really well.
>>30438383
Now that was one hell of a fighter!
>>30438583
you could barely fit one of those on a MAC, let alone take off in it
>>30430667
CLAIMED
claiming the bf-109
Sexy as fuck
>>30439665
I, uh, I was the first Memeschmitt poster >>30434215. Sorry. We could... claim by model? I stick with the Gustav and you get the Emil?
>>30439712
Damn bro my bad, didn't notice. Anyways that sounds fair .
I'll take the 109H
I kind of like the whole high altitude concept.
Any flying ducks?
>>30436451
Eh, that's not the fault of the engineering though.
oooooh it'll be the La-5 for me
>>30431685
Were you in /gag/? I saw this same photo over there
>>30430704
Galland approved.
>>30438587
>24 cylinder inline engine
>4x20mm
>does 500 in a dive
tempest is some good shit
Rate the Weiss-Manfred WM-23 'Silver Arrow'.
HO229 looks sick, only a prototype though
>>30430667
FW190
Blackburn Skua divebomber/interceptor
>>30440795
Only having one wheel and half a cockpit is a bit of a drawback, so 3/10
>>30432624
best one so far.
Junker JU-52 3M
Its the Landrover Defender of Planes.
BASED ARADO
>>30441107
More like the Mercedes Benz GW of planes.
>>30441118
But you get what i am saying, no fancy design shit, can take a hell of abuse, just works, you know...
>you will never fight F-86 Sabres in MiG alley
>>30441138
So toyota land cruiser then
>>30441232
>>30431524
>>30431553
>warplanes of WWII thread
>these turdhumpers posting jets that didn't even test fly until after the war was over
>>30441591
or a Hillux, cause it is so easy to strap mg's on
>>30441611
The F-86 was in service and even flew above Germany in the last two weeks of the war. Try reading a book sometime instead of getting all your info from TV shows.
>>30441765
No u.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre
>First flight 1 October 1947
>Introduction 1949, with USAF
>>30441765
You're a fucking moron
>>30441859
You spelled moran wrong.
>>30441780
You're forgetting about the German holdouts who continued to fight years afterwards on islands across the Atlantic.
>>30438249
Bismark.
>>30441928
not him but
>last two weeks of the war
>above germany
>the war in germany ended 9/2/1945
The one and only Moonbat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnbzMxEvJ5Q
>You will never fly a glorious kittyhawk, soaring over Germans in North Africa
Why bother living
>>30431462
It's a 37mm by the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUjq7TJshE
>>30430667
Since faggots are posting pics of Mig 17s, I might as well do this
The Douglas A1 Skyraider capable of carrying 4 tons of ordinance, and a carrier hook.
>>30442556
>hur durr a bunch of faggots are being faggots better join in and suck some cock too
>>30442506
>born too late to fly the dankest planes of all time
>born just in time to see AI take over dogfighting
>born with astigmatism so was fucked either way
Anyway move aside for some old fashioned building techniques to show you how it's done.
Sea Mosquito.
>>30434199
Did you just assume my genre?
>>30436122
>squared off canopy
>that color scheme
muh dick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbbs1YlQvc
Ho229
Video is of a model flying around, but watch from 3:15 onward.
>>30442848
*gender?
Lanc with the big stick.
The B-24 liberator she may not have the best heavy bomber. Nor the best looking but she great in my mind.
Been the best*
>>30436420
you are not, lad. good choice.
All these delicious Allied heavy bombers!
>>30440230
>>30440250
>>30440267
>>30440273
Thanks for the webms, good stuff. Is there a source? I really find this kind of footage interesting, if you can ignore the fact that you're watching people die who had no say in the war that they're fighting.
>>30444853
Maybe I will fly that thing in war Thunder, itll only take me 2years or so....
>>30444915
Judging by the quality of the footage,I'd say it's a documentary series called Apocalypse: The Second World War. The documentary is French,but there's an english version narrated by Martin Sheen.
>>30445049
Nice, I'll look it up. Thanks.
>>30441765
P-80 was available in early 1945, but did not see combat.
>>30445049
Is it any good
F-82, no combat but hey, it's a special snowflake
she's grown on me even though I like twin engined twin tails for ages.
![[Strafes internally].png](https://i.imgur.com/1lJrW24.png "[Strafes internally].png")
>Read thread
>Boo hoo I'm gonna have to grind these plens out in War Thunder
>Not playing glorious IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 with CUP mods
IL-2 is super cheap on Good Old Games.com (I don't recommend steam). No grinding needed; all planes are automatically available from the beginning. You can just fuck about gettin gud in the QMB, and can even alter campaign files in the FMB. Go get it, niggas, it's great.
>>30449445
Played it on Xbox 360 a long time ago. I was really good with the Italian one. Can't remember the name of it though
>>30441081
such a sexy plane
did someone say sexy planes?
>>30431797
I'm pretty sure the exact plane in the picture was in my town flying around for the past few days. Damn thing sounded like a bunch of helicopters flying over my house, but good god it was cool.
F7F tigercat (too late for the war tho..)
Pick one
>>30449700
Found the weeb
>>30430667
Japanese H6K, spluh.
>>30451400
Definitely the D.520
>>30451400
That's all three they had right?
>>30451400
>french fighters in world war 2
bait
>>30431428
>flying what was a flying coffin irl
wew
>>30452142
The French also used Curtiss H-75's (P-36), and they were waiting for a batch of H-81's (P-40) and P-39's before they got steamrolled.
After that the Free French used P-40's, P-39's, P-47's and Spits.
so is that HBO 'Masters of the Air' series going to be the first decent cinematic depiction of WW2 aircraft?
>>30430667
>>30438249
Swordfish sank more enemy shipping than any other allied aircraft.
It also had a huge role in winning the battle of the Atlantic.
>>30440461
Yes
>>30452887
I want this to be real, but its hard without any sources
>>30431797that's the EAA's bird
Sauce:
>been inside her
Aluminum overcast does airshow stuff
>>30440273
being a camera guy for this shit would be the most terrifying job out there
>I'll never have a collection of glorious WW2 aircraft to fly around to my heart's content
why live?
Zero the most sexiest
>>30430667
Gloster Meteor F3, Because Brits beat jerry at everything.
>>30454341
Could be worse.
>>30454406
>>30432285
+1
>>30431428
Never flew russia in shit thunder and left the game after i spaded every non bomber german prop
However laggs were always easy kills unless your talking ab which i never played much of
>>30441081
Id take the ta152h but im at werk and no photos on the phone
>>30444977
Just get il2 1946, shit thunder is a waste of time
>>30455395
why train is kill?
>>30455439
Might be Germans on it.
>>30453898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCyP4xfZZZo
About 1:18
It sunk / disabled 3 Italian battleships, got an assist on Bismark, a dozen or so cruisers and destroyers, an unknown number of German merchant ships and 20-30 Uboats depending on how you award the kill.
Theres some stats here but the webpage has the most disgusting background http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/swordfish.htm
>pic unrelated
>>30454406
Only because they had the soviet union and most importantly, the US helping them, lets be real lindy. Shitfires lacked the range, bombers were too fragile and ill protected for daylight raids, ect.
>>30438767
Mah niggah
>>30440250
metal as fuck man
>>30455578
>Only because they had the soviet union and most importantly, the US helping them
British technology was far in advance of both the US and USSR at the start of the war. The only reason the US drew level was because of the tizzard mission where the UK just gave away millions of hours of research in the hope that america could put its industry to use on these developments.
The UK could not afford to follow projects like 'Tube Alloys' due to the need for resources elsewhere, so it was merged with the US developments to become the Manhattan project.
Also, remember that British jet engines continued to be world leading right through the 60's. After a quiet period and many mergers RR still produce the best civilian aircraft engines. And sell a large number of MTU's.
>Shitfires
Why are you so upset
> lacked the range
Range for what? daylight bomber escort over Germany? That thing we discovered was not worth the returns and didn't do?
Is this meant to try and say that the P51 is somehow superior to the Spitfire just because it flies further?
>bombers were too fragile
Lancaster is probably the most structurally powerful aircraft of the war, hence having the highest payload of any WW2 bomber.
>ill protected for daylight raids
They were designed as night bombers, they did not need more guns.
Remember Albert Speer is on record multiple times saying that the RAF night bombing was what was crippling German industrial effort.
IIRC the RAF destroyed about half of German steel production in 1944 (200,000) tons.
>>30441232
Thank God. The last thing I want is to get my commie shit riddled with with 50 cal bullets while fighting for the useless NorKs.
>>30455439
>WWII footage showing a british plane and a train being strafed
>hurr durr why
Why do you think, doofus?
>>30443113
medium bomber. No hate meant though
>>30452481
very underrated. good choice man
>>30444853
>not enough fuel
>shot down by niggers flying mustangs
>>30455581
I have a micro machine or something like that of one of those, I got it in the late '90s. Always thought it was a cool plane.
>>30455823
In what world is a 4 engine bomber with an 8,000lb payload a medium bomber?
>>30441765
Probably thinking of the Meteor.
>>30451285
>>30455632
badass man. One of those is Pappy Bowington I think
>>30455910
>black sheep squadron
Mah Nigga
>>30455910
Maybe. Pic related.
>>30451285
M-more please?
The comfiest plane of the war. Kitchen, bed, toilet, and the knowledge that you can get shot to hell and back and still limp home.
>>30449445
Why good old games rather than steam?
It's on sale on steam for 2.50
>>30436150
Just don't try to play your stock F-86A-5 like an F-86F-2 that's fully upgraded.
me 163?
Best fighter of the war
>>30457714
>Best fighter of the war
not sure if weeb or bait
>>30456212
Steam is finicky when it comes to modding
>>30457714
Nigga Pls
>>30458521
In what way?
>>30452109
Nah. I prefer Hellcats, but it was already taken, as were Mustangs, Corsairs, Thunderbolts, Spitfires etc.
I'm just posting what hasn't been.
>>30457714
>best fighter until 1942
It's ok, Japan. You're the only country to get double penetrated by atomic cocks. Nobody can take that away.
Plus, you make good cars and great electronics.
>>30436494
That's an RC Model.
I have one of the Ki-84.
>>30458521
How is the modding on it
is it just put it in a folder in steam/steamapps/common/il21946?
>>30458934
>best fighter until 1942
I don't think so. If we're talking "best fighter in the war" and not limiting by theater, the BF109F and Spitfire MKVs in service at the same time were much faster and more durable than an A6M2 Zero.
>>30459086
Also is there a way to get it to work on windows 8.1?
>>30459132
I'm curious to see how a Corsair would do against a Bf109 of Fw190
>>30460616
I'd rather see how they do against Muslims with no AA down in Mindanao. The Philippines have a major insurgency problem there.
>>30460616
Superior in every way to BF109, no contest. It's faster than a FW190 and climbs better but probably is less maneuverable.
>>30460471
I got it to work lol
>>30460697
109s of the same era were basically superior under speeds of 300kph and inferior over 400kph under 6.5km
F4Us have worse roll rate, armament, protection, and visability than a 190A of the era
D9 Is better in pretty much every way except climb rate until they got above 7.5km
The luftwaffe pilots would be mostly noobs with a few veterans sprinkled in by the time of the f4u's profileration and that would be the main deciding factor
>>30455823
>carried more, faster and higher than the B-17.
> all literature calls it a heavy bomber
Read a book nigger
>>30461775
>The luftwaffe pilots would be mostly noobs with a few veterans sprinkled in
Oh for fuck's sake, if you're comparing PLANES leave the pilots out of it and assume equivalent skill and tactical knowledge.
>>30460616
I wish they painted the A-1 Skyraider that same Corsair blue. It's my favorite color for planes, especially piston-props.
The J7W1.
The pusher engine setup and the fact that it's sexy unlike the Ass-ender makes me hard.
Fastest piston aircraft of dub dub 2 coming through.
P-61.
>>30462023
> never went operational
>>30430667
All of them
Fw-190
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhAgU-GUc1Q
Bf-109
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNGDo95yA8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avts3FFUW30
P-26A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9clzKTVMbi4
F4F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edc1J7HJCg8
TBM-3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1Enu4uTtU
F8F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XcI1RCXXJU
P-47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQXsgNB_5rI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXPytatsWgI
P-51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PayI-T_mgto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdy17GmkpWc
P-38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p26NYiRXm2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY6d-_ILCvo
Spitfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5rGyP6SSYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFKXkXUl5Is
A6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuoVlQOO4xc
P-63
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUuhLD6pQFA
P-40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIRTIeYko04
Sea Fury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I6shFDKE3s
F6F Hellcat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUYZ6WqgiQ
F4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQxb-V-rZqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=087sF9pfuSE
Yak-3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl2NM9z4dds
Yak-9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQDvWaN_Yk
IL-2M3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXejUgnxQps
Me-262
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S88FsFE5EE
PBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr2v1AiTDTw
B-25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ulquROJYI
B-17
Start up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8MbJKziYSo
Flyby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgpWuxYLhLU
B-24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOrqYA0ViAc
Lancaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9obgpWoten0
>>30462209
It out ran some hawker hurricanes once
>>30430667
>Favorite aircraft of WWII.
>Favorite aircraft of WWII.
>Forcing me to chose ONE out of the most awesome time of military aviation.
Top kek bro
I just can give you favorites - several ones
>F8F (yeah I know, technically it aint a "real" WW2 plane but I love the Idea of an F4F sized plane with an F4U engine
>F4U - of course
>BF104K - the last, the sleekest, the most beautiful of them
>All bubble canopy Spitfires
> TA-152
> P40B
> Solid (read: gun-filled) nosed B25 variants
> A26 Invader
>C47
>JU88 (the night fighter versions with radar)
I could write more but I guess its enough
>>30457714
Muh dick!
>>30455439
Because it identified sexually as a Tiger tank
>>30455539
Jesus fucking christ that format...
I still find it hard to believe that it killed more shipping than the US divebombers and torpedobombers, but with claims being shared between all of those, the Swordfish might come out on top.
>>30462410
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URyKMUKlXAc
That combo.
>ctrl-f
>fiat
>0 results
>g.
>0 results
what the fuck is this shit, I thought you people had taste
b17 I mean c'mon. Carpet bombing krauts all day long?
>>30463867
>I thought you people had taste
im gonna assume you didnt see the 2nd post
>>30462568
>F8F
Mah nigga
- Small enough to operate from escort carriers unlike F4U and F6F: CHECK!
- Climbs like a motherfucker because the engine is fucking overpowered for such a small plane: CHECK
>>30463892
that's not an italian plane
>>30463903
Are you retarded?
How is that the second post
The sound of the Engine on this thing in real life is actually fucking amazing.
>>30463908
I didn't say it was
>>30463920
i'm not that anon, i just replied with the italian planes already posted
The more I read about the P-47 the more I love it. The first time I saw one up close I thought "yeah it certainly looks like it's good for CAS, it's huge, looks sturdy but sluggish" but phew it was a hell of a fighter and a hell of a lot faster than it looks.
>>30463920
>implying the ME262 is not the sexist plane of WW2 next to the HO229
>>30464124
>sexist
sexiest*
Junkers ju 87 (Stuka) the inverse gull wing make it look awesome
![Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5184-26,_Russland,_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_87_edit_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mNwa0xS.jpg "Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5184-26,_Russland,_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_87_edit_1[1].jpg")
>>30464179
At least post a real one if you're at it
>>30462568
>>30463894
>Bearcat
>lightest aircraft wrapped around powerful engine
>dat power-to-weight ratio
So was Grumman trying to channel the basic design principle of the Zero then?
>>30463958
its high-altitude performance was equal to its smaller lighter opponents
plus there are accounts of it having a hundred bullet holes and still making it back to base.
