Name a cooler airplane

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>>34436520
love the Jug, but boom boom wins

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>>34436520
Did they make a night fighter version? Or was it still fighting a decade later in the Korean War?

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>>34437309
I believe that the only WWII-era fighters that saw any appreciable combat in Korea were the P-51 and the F4U.

Also, the Corsair is way cooler than the Thunderbolt.

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>not flying a piece of early sci-fi

>>34436520
Yak-9
Yak-1
P-39
P-63
F4U-1D
La-7
Ta-152H
FW-190D

>>34437531
T. Slavaboo that plays warthunder

>>34436559

Favorite prop plane of all time. Unconventional, yet fucking cool.

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>>34436520
>active service since 1960
>still used to roast kebabs today
That's cool to me.

>>34437576
Thats not because it is good, thats just because they are poor

>>34437531
welp you're the hugest faggot I'm going to see on the internet today and I just got finished watching a big black buck nigger cum inside the asshole of an at least 60 year old obese white man with a huge snow white beard who probably gets side work as a mall santa every december

>>34436520
Anybody have a good skyraider photo?

>>34436559
Love me some Glacier Girl. Still pissed what the ATF did to the cannon on her, though.

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Talking about old planes, didn't some fucks used some old two-engined plane to dive bomb shit not so long ago ?

>>34437661
That wasn't (that) old of a plane. Flips used OV-10 Bronco to dive bomb insurgents.

>>34437607
Keep us informed.

>>34437607
Enlightening tale, old chap.

>>34437850
Yeah not so old. It's more the use they made off it.

P-61

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The little huntress!

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>>34436520

Comes with it's own soundtrack-

https://youtu.be/F3idxKxRPSw?list=PLKp4ps5RSRpxMnoJeGgWgNdwfk255ML3i

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easy

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right fucking here, Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka, here's some of one....

>>34437576
>cant fly if its fuel load drops below 30%

BRAVO COMMUNISM

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Sorry gramps, coolest plane is right here.

>>34440874
>were such shit at bombing they had to put sirens on the plane so the enemy know they were there

>>34437365
>cloth wings
>cool

>>34440971
I'm gonna need sauce on that. Not even Slavs can be that bad.

>>34441041
>corsair
>cloth wings
You dun goofed

>>34441041
>I was only pretending to be retarded

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>ctrl-f A-10
>0 results

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>>34437531
>FW-190D

Patrician taste.

>>34441089
This is what happens when you put the wrong wing on your plane-fu

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This fucking bird is the apex of human powered flight....unless there's some shit in the inventory faster that we've yet to learn about.

Built by geeks with slide-rules in the late 50's and early 60's, and not a single damn one was ever lost to enemy fire.

If you look at that pic, you'll see fluids accumulating between the fuselage and the engines on the wings....that's fuel. It flew so fucking fast that the entire bird heated up and expanded, allowing fuel and shit to leak out.

People talk shit about "American culture"....well there it is, bitches. There it is.

>>34441049
> suffered early design defect that shifted
center of gravity to rear whenever two-thirds of fuel used
http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/2015/April%202015/0415classics.pdf

Can't find a better source now but like many aircraft of the time the Mig-21 shifted the fuel load front rear to front tanks to counteract the shift in pressure at high speed. However there was some design problem I can't remember that meant once the fuel load dropped too low the cg would be too far aft no matter what.

Most variants of the aircraft required 700L left in the tanks for a safe landing, which depending on version is roughly 1/3-1/4 of internal fuel. I think the chinese fixed this with a better fuel tank arrangment.

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>>34441206

hohohohoho

>>34441206

I may have seen faster, but what you pictured, I know is fast. Fastest huffer ever.

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Look at this fuckin' bitch.....just pure speed.

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If you insist.

surprised nobody mentioned it yet

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>>34441365
fuck forgot pic

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THICCC

>>34437309
Late WW2 had the night fighter

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>>34441310
>pure speed
Should be red

>>34441041
> cloth control surfaces
> fixed in F4U-1D iirc

>>34437531
is this what autism looks like

>>34436520
>artificial birds
Blasphemy, if man was meant to fly God would have given him feathers. Such contraptions will never take off.

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>Their canopies aren't bulbous
not interested.

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This.

Any plane with a kitchen, bed and toilet is best.

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BARBETTES A CUTE

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>>34436520
Grumman HU-16 albatross is my favorite plane. >Has 2 super charged b-17 engines
>is a boat plane
>can live in it
>has pretty good range that it can fly

To me it has the greatest practicality to land on a lake somewhere, or the ocean, go fishing for a while and fly off.

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>>34441651
Can't fowl the Owl

>>34438786
not much of a wehraboo, but this.

I think Spitfires and ME-109s were the most aesthetic aircraft of that era.

>>34441825
109K-4

>>34437531
Haha add me on warthunder dude!!! russian bias amirite lmao xD

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Missing the obvious answer... The underrated hero of The Battle of Britain.

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>>34441873
Spitfire is more A E S T H E T I C

>>34441875
While I agree the Spitfire is as sexy as a slender, curvy woman in a skin tight dress, I love the hurricane.

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Also one of my favorites, mainly because I grew up on the movie, "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."

>>34441873
Based choice anon. The true backbone of the RAF

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>>34436520
>ctrl + f f-14
>no matches

STEP IT UP, SENPAI!

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>>34436520
How can you beat the English Electric Lightning?
With a TSR.2, that's how.
These two are some of my favourite aircraft, both easily better than the fat yank P-47.

>>34441206
It was actually leaky when cold, the tanks would seal when expanding because of the heat.

>>34437576
let me know when it actually sees combat and not just flying around on patrol

>>34441873
It did a good job chewing up Do's and He's

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>>34441089

#woke

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>>34436520
The F-5, 1950s-era tech still flying today, and still looking cute.

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>>34441785
ywn be Jimmy Buffet flying around the Caribbean in your personal Albatross

>>34441962
she's a slut that only dates Persians now

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>>34437558
>>34441520
>>34441864
>names airplanes he finds cooler
>dude warthunder lmao lol autism

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Excuse me. I have a lot of Zeroes to eat up.

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>>34436520
thats not a macchi anon

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I know it never did anything useful, but I love the aesthetic of the HE-162 Salamander.

>>34445473
It was really an excellent design. Super easy to fly, incredibly fast, cheap to build.


The he162c and 162d along with the ta-183 and me 262 hgii/v represent the apex of ww2 design

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>>34445505

>>34445473
it was incredibly hard to fly and killed one of the UK's most experienced test pilots after the war

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>>34436520
"cooler airplane"
ski-equipped Lockheed LC-130

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>>34436520
F-86 Sabre

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>>34445589
"From mid-April, I/JG-1 had scored a number of kills, but had also lost thirteen He 162s and ten pilots. Most of the losses were from flying accidents, due to problems such as engine flame-outs and occasional structural failures. The difficulties with the type seem to have been due to the fact that it was rushed into production, not that it was an inherently bad design. One experienced Luftwaffe pilot who flew it called it a "first-class combat aircraft"."

"One British pilot who evaluated the He 162 also praised it, though a second British pilot was killed in November 1945 during an air display at Farnborough when one of the tailfins broke off, sending the fighter into the ground."

>>34437564
How is this unconventional?
American interwar aircraft and early 50s were way more unconv

>>34441376
It looks so good too bad it was a failure

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>>34445505
Pic related would have had two of the most powerful German jet engines, 27kn each.

It would have had a twr of well over .5

My favorite plane as well

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>>34445885
LOVED the looks of it in '46

pic related Eric Brown approved!

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>>34447596

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>>34441041
Fuck you, anon

>>34440487
B-24's have some fucking sexy lines to them. Definitely an iconic shape if not the coolest.

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>>34445355
same dude
>>34445430
we said cool anon

>>34443145
Thanks for the new wallpaper

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B-36

This particular version has devices on the wing tips for parasite fighter docking. There was also an idea to have 3 Peacemakers lock up together in flight. Forming a huge wing which would increase range. These 3 peacemakers would then each carry an early jet fighter in the bombbay. under that fighter was attached a giant rocket with a nuclear warhead.the linked bombers would fly over the arctic. when it came time to release the fighters they would separate and then drop the fighters. the fighters would then ignite the rockets of the nuclear weapon and ride the rocket part of the way to the target. then the rocket was released. the fighters were to then turn around and catch up to their bomber parents. to serve as escorts for the return flight.

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>>34445979

By the time the issues were hammered out the end of the war was in sight and jets were the obvious future.

Its a shame because the V-3420 could have done 4000+ hp

>>34441372
The il10 needed to be hit with 30mm to be taken down reliably, that series of planes was crazy

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>>34448109
>>34441372
Il-102

designed to compete against the Frogfoot.

>>34447605
I need an adult

>>34441041
Loosen the chin strap on your hockey helmet, son.

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>>34441206
>This fucking bird is the apex of human powered flight

Actually, that would be the original blackbird, the A-12. The SR came along later, and was just a modified A-12 airframe with lots of extra sensors, an extra seat for the operator of all the additional sensors, & more fuel to push the extra 15,000lbs along to cover the same distance.

>>34441206
It is supposed to be designated the RS-71. Then LBJ announced the plane as the SR-71 and no one bothered to correct him.

>>34448126
That things a godsend on wargame

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>>34436559
Seconding

>>34443642
You had to go and post the F-20, motherfucker ;__;

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>Ctrl+F
>No PBY Catalina
\k\, i am dissapoint.

>>34448126
I wanna fuck that plane holy shit

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1-800-COME ON NOW

>>34441015
>trying to shit on the ultimate morale raper

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It's a shame the Netherlands got overrun so early in the war, they actually had some pretty neat aircraft designs.
Pic related, the Fokker T.V. It was designed as an 'air cruiser' supposed to help fighters establish air superiority with it's advanced (by prewar standards) 20mm autocannon turrets. After this was accomplished it could be turned into an attacker or medium bomber depending on the situation.
During the invasion it achieved remarkable success, shooting down dozens of German aircraft on the first day of fighting

>>34448246
The F-117 was a similar story as well. It was supposed to get an "A" or "B" designation, and "F-117" was just an internal company code name, but somebody accidentally used the name in a press conference and it stuck.

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>>34451868
Imagine a G1 with better engines....