whats up /n/iggas, just wondering what your favorite ww2 aircraft

File: 060223-F-1234P-001.jpg (283KB, 1800x1196px) Image search: [Google]

283KB, 1800x1196px

fw 190d

File: horten_229.jpg (118KB, 940x651px) Image search: [Google]

118KB, 940x651px

Ho-229

File: 559px-Haunebu_flugscheiben.jpg (70KB, 559x599px) Image search: [Google]

70KB, 559x599px

Haunebu IV

File: 1490490825086.jpg (43KB, 640x470px) Image search: [Google]

43KB, 640x470px

Consolidated PBY Catalina

>>34531291
Dat scoop

File: f0bec7f6e603a6f53db05bcfd508edd9.jpg (601KB, 2895x1448px) Image search: [Google]

601KB, 2895x1448px

Wellington medium bomber, made by the Merchants of Death Company.

>>34531289
Wait, is this just photoshop or is there an interesting story here?

>>34531294
They are captured planes.

File: do335-112.jpg (140KB, 634x307px) Image search: [Google]

140KB, 634x307px

Dornier 335, motherfuckers. If I had stupid money I'd pay someone to make me a repro like those guys that did the 262s a while back.

>>34531296
>when one supercharged nitrous injected V-12 is not enough

These fuckers are still the fastest mass produced piston engined planes..

>/k/

File: maxresdefault.jpg (259KB, 1500x940px) Image search: [Google]

259KB, 1500x940px

This beaut and its radial engine.

File: Gloster_F5_34.jpg (122KB, 1200x660px) Image search: [Google]

122KB, 1200x660px

>>34531299
Nice original design you have there

File: id_uh-1b_iroquois_700.jpg (48KB, 504x377px) Image search: [Google]

48KB, 504x377px

Does a Huey count?

File: transportation.jpg (158KB, 1024x593px) Image search: [Google]

158KB, 1024x593px

>>34531298

>>34531286
>>34531287
Yes
>>34531288
Lol
>>34531289
>>34531294
What planes are these? Spitfires?

File: Lawoschkein sieben.jpg (16KB, 550x158px) Image search: [Google]

16KB, 550x158px

>>34531304
pfft, you think the allies had such great engineering capabilities compared to german technological might?

It's obviously Flugpanzer 50-10, commonly abbreviated as P-51.

Here's another piece of brilliant german engineering that outperformed its bf109 and fw190 compatriots ))))))

>>34531289
Look up Zirkus Rosarius

File: douglas-c-47-skytrain-cockpit-tommy-anderson.jpg (155KB, 900x598px) Image search: [Google]

155KB, 900x598px

I'm a simple man.

>>34531300

This one. Watched too many reruns of Black Sheep Squadron on History Channel when I was younger.

File: p61.jpg (21KB, 504x285px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 504x285px

Northrop P-61

File: P37Lightning.jpg (1MB, 2802x1936px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2802x1936px

>Gee, Bill, why do you get TWO engines?
It also made me chuckle that the F35 is also named the "Lightning II".

File: HawkerTempestIIIprototypeLA610Rolls-RoyceGriffonIIBengine_zps47621c6e.jpg (258KB, 1023x682px) Image search: [Google]

258KB, 1023x682px

>late variants made 5500hp at 60psi of boost

>>34531344
What are the advantages/disadvanatages of such a design?

>>34531394
bigger plane can carry more bombs/rockets/fuel while being fast with two engines

P-40N

Duh.

File: gun bigger than your father's.jpg (53KB, 480x346px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 480x346px

>>34531286
>>34531287
Sexy
>>34531288
Fake
>>34531303
We'll need a bigger gun.

>>34531286
Literally the image I was going to post

>that fuesalage
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

File: Curtiss P37.jpg (44KB, 450x243px) Image search: [Google]

44KB, 450x243px

>>34531344
P37?

P.37

>>34531301
Wow I've never seen that before.

Clearly didn't work, or it would have been mass produced.

>>34531428
Oh fugg I missed a key

File: Uhu.jpg (28KB, 600x315px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 600x315px

Heinkel 219 A7 variant

File: Focke-Wulf Ta 400.jpg (130KB, 1280x489px) Image search: [Google]

130KB, 1280x489px

Do wind tunnel models count?
I have a serious fetish for large six engine bombers.

File: sm79-20a.jpg (131KB, 600x366px) Image search: [Google]

131KB, 600x366px

Savoia Marchetti 79, or SM.79

File: cs4-ju-87-stuka-600x359.png (320KB, 600x359px) Image search: [Google]

320KB, 600x359px

German Stuka has a smile, so I like him too

>>34531535
>OHAI TANK LET'S PLAY GAEM
>p-pls no

File: y17.jpg (268KB, 1680x1050px) Image search: [Google]

268KB, 1680x1050px

>>34531535
Lots of WWII planes have smiles. They differ in size, that's it.

File: sum tanks.webm (3MB, 720x480px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 720x480px

>>34531535
A little leckerli for a well behaved Stuka

File: 140210_MIG-3_04.jpg (100KB, 780x1039px) Image search: [Google]

100KB, 780x1039px

It works you know

My favorite plane's the Boeing 767-223ER. I'm sad that I lost it in a tower tho

>>34531722
How about the C 130 Hercules heard you flew in those back in the 70s Mr Osama

>>34531364
>5500hp

Moist

File: He_112.jpg (276KB, 1400x994px) Image search: [Google]

276KB, 1400x994px

The Heinkel He 112 was kind of cool but it jobbed

File: windsor.jpg (137KB, 1129x970px) Image search: [Google]

137KB, 1129x970px

>>34531293
Very sturdy. Pic would have been the next step towards the victory bomber.

File: Mc_202_folgore.jpg (66KB, 640x427px) Image search: [Google]

66KB, 640x427px

MC.202 / 205 Folgore

One of the fastest most maneuverable fighters of the war, underappreciated as well

>>34531285

ENOUGH OF THIS NIGGA SHIT

I'm a big fan of the Enola Gay. Still has one of the best K:D ratios.

>>34531716
Mig looks good, feels well in simulators, but the armament is a joke, like Bf-109F-2

File: B-26 Marauder.jpg (289KB, 802x632px) Image search: [Google]

289KB, 802x632px

The B-26 Marauder, because my grandfather flew as a bombardier on one in WW2.

>>34531831
If the P-51 was the Cadillac of the skies.
The Folgore and Veltro were definitely the Ferrari of the skies.

File: IMG_5324.jpg (64KB, 800x565px) Image search: [Google]

64KB, 800x565px

Technically a WW2 fighter, deployed right at the end but didn't see any action. Finally got it's dick wet in Korea. The last great piston engine fighter from Grumman. My grandfather flew them, said it was his absolute favorite fighter. And he flew pretty much everything the Marines had from WW2 to the Vietnam era.

File: planefu.png (691KB, 1060x816px) Image search: [Google]

691KB, 1060x816px

Best plane of the war coming through bitches

>>34531394
The guns were directly in front of the pilot
I believe they were right behind the Mustang in success

File: IMG_2634.jpg (70KB, 800x550px) Image search: [Google]

70KB, 800x550px

A E S T H E T I C

>>34531285
Got to fly in one of these. Loud as fuck.

File: Miles m20.jpg (40KB, 750x382px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 750x382px

>>34531432
Plenty of Spitfires and Hurricanes in the pipeline.
When your factories are at capacity making the things you need then taking one offline to make another thing is sometimes a bad idea.

eg.

>>34531286
Come here to post this

File: Ki-84.jpg (457KB, 1600x812px) Image search: [Google]

457KB, 1600x812px

Filthy navy and weakling Mitsubishi can't even compete!
>>34532122
Nose guns were a normal thing for others than Americans and British in single engine fighters.

Two engines and huge fuselage made them more expensive. Larger plane is also easier to spot from distance and easier to hit.
On Pasific it was handy that P-38 could fly home with one engine.

File: F8F-2 web.jpg (173KB, 1600x948px) Image search: [Google]

173KB, 1600x948px

Feed me my children

File: 1470517373015.jpg (2MB, 3600x2400px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3600x2400px

>>34532760
Here have a pair of you to feed you.
F8F-1 barely counts as WWII plane, but F8F-2 is from 1948.

File: ai1-Bell-P-39-Airacobra.jpg (74KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

74KB, 1024x768px

>>34532708
I will fuck your wife and disgrace your family with halfu children

File: Buffalo_Finnish.jpg (60KB, 532x328px) Image search: [Google]

60KB, 532x328px

>>34532970
Rather like non-turbocharged right turn only prop P-38s they didn't find friends in the ETO.
It's rather like being issued one of these.

File: 1491763417827.jpg (46KB, 947x629px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 947x629px

>>34532970
Emperor already told that filthy America-san will only bring disgraceful rape. For you I will inform that it will be necrophilia, but first I will need a day off to find a wife.

>>34531305
It was fast but very prone to cooling system issues

>>34531394
It gives you 66% more plane per plane.

File: 2012-04-25 18.44.25.jpg (1MB, 2560x1920px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2560x1920px

I love spitfires.

So much so that when Schecter did a limited run spitfire solo 6 model. I grabbed one.

File: Republic_P-47N-5_three_ship_formation.jpg (53KB, 450x305px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 450x305px

>CTRL + F
>No p47

fucking casuals

>>34531294
russian planes fell into german hands I guess

they used british UC carriers, T-34's you name it

>>34531364
I've read articles that bong and polish pilots preffered these things to spitfires or Burger planes

apparently catching someone in a dive was 80% of air battles late war, and tempests were argubaly the best late war prop for that

File: p61_large.jpg (66KB, 870x597px) Image search: [Google]

66KB, 870x597px

>>34531394

The biggest advantages were in speed and range. The P-38 was able to climb faster than any single-engine fighter until the P-51 came along. The P-38 also had a quite heavy armament compared to other American fighters during WW2. The disadvantage is that it has two engines, which means that it costs roughly twice as much to produce and maintain because the engine is by far the most expensive part of any fighter plane. Single-engine fighters are also generally considered to be more maneuverable than their twin-engine counterparts.

In practice, however, almost all twin-engine fighters during WW2 were failures, at least during the day. Twin-engine designs lacked maneuverability compared to single-engine fighters, and single-engine fighters were cheaper to produce and maintain. The slimmer profile of a single-engine fighter also makes it harder to spot from a distance, which can be a critical advantage for leveraging the element of surprise. The P-38 is basically the only exception to this. Why the P-38 succeeded as a day fighter when other twin-engine designs failed is difficult to determine.

Twin-engine fighters found their proper niche as night fighters. The larger frame of a twin-engine fighter allows for a carrying on-board radar, a critical advantage for nocturnal engagements. The P-61 Black Widow was purpose-built as a dedicated night fighter and it achieved great success in this role.

>>34533485
I thought double engine fighters like this were mostly designed for ground attack? How did the mosquito match up against its american counterparts?

I have several, but they've all been posted.

File: Me262_02.jpg (237KB, 1620x1080px) Image search: [Google]

237KB, 1620x1080px

Bf-109 for my favorite traditional aircraft followed by Me-262 because well its just uber badass.

File: image.jpg (1MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 3264x2448px

>>34531285
I flew in a b17 around 2 years ago. It was incredible.

File: 4,000lb cookie.jpg (31KB, 577x436px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 577x436px

>>34533531
Allied twin engined fighters were mostly bombers without bombs.
P-38 was a fighter.
Mosquito could,certainly at the beginning of the war, behave like a fighter, move mud like a B.17 or pretty much any job in the middle.

Rather like having a bunch of F.15s on call.

File: Messerschmitt_Me_163B_USAF.jpg (313KB, 1800x1383px) Image search: [Google]

313KB, 1800x1383px

>>34533485
>The P-38 was able to climb faster than any single-engine fighter until the P-51 came along.
P-38 indeed had good climb rate, but P-51 wasn't anything special at climbing. I can't find the statistics fast, but I'd doubt that even at over 23 000ft it would change so much.

>>34532940
Yeah, but they're practically the same with a slightly different engine variation and If I haf a second option it woulf be the P-51H or P-47N. You might as well could include the YP-80 since it was shipped to Italy and England during the war

File: 2001-130h.jpg (1MB, 2504x2864px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2504x2864px

>>34531286
The Dora's office.

>>34531300
Grandfather flew one of these during the later part of the war, provided CAS for landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

File: 5e4f2db788e18badbcf68448e4eb5c97.jpg (3MB, 2048x1516px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 2048x1516px

Best four engined bomber.

File: FM-2.jpg (82KB, 740x605px) Image search: [Google]

82KB, 740x605px

>>34531285
FM-2
I'd buy one in an instant if I had a money tree.

>>34531394
>guns in the nose without having to worry about overheating the engine or syncing with the prop rotations (aka don't have to worry about horizontal convergence or lower rate of fire)
>can carry more fuel/ordnance

Also, on the Lightning (and a few others, but not all multi-engine planes) they had the propellers spin in opposite directions to negate torque (makes it easier to steer).

>>34534364
But there's only 2 engines....

>>34534396
It's a meme. The are only two nacelles, but there are two engines in each nacelle.

>>34534384
Also, in the war, the wildcat kinda sucked ass until the F6F. I'm not trying to say you can't have an opinion, but your opinion is shit.

File: He 162.jpg (166KB, 1290x999px) Image search: [Google]

166KB, 1290x999px

>>34534364
it was shitty, though, really really shitty

>>34534400
Ohh... I was think something like that because I knew germany had a bomber like that. I was looking at the rear end and was going "Huh is that a propeller?" Guess I shouldn't have second guessed myself

>>34534406
>kinda sucked ass
You're thinking of the Grumman built F4Fs, lad, and they didn't suck ass, they were very reliable and forgiving, just not very fast on the deck or very good at climbing.

File: 262.jpg (85KB, 898x645px) Image search: [Google]

85KB, 898x645px

>>34534364
If its engines decided to behave for once.

Twin engined jet night fighter. Have we had that yet ?

>>34534424
>the rear end
No, that's the Do.335. The He.177 only has the prop on the front of the nacelle.

>>34534424
The second engine in each nacelle liked to basically self combust.
There are however guided missiles in that illustration which actually worked.

>>34534434
Ohhhh I get it. Searched it up He-117 had two engines in each nacelle. My mind was fucking with me. I remember of a pusher bomber design like this but it never was a push-puller

>>34534309
My grandfather has a picture signed by the original spitfire engineers. Was offered a spitfire in the 50s/60s but turned it down.

I'm angry that he did now. He had half tracks, old tanks etc, a flame thrower to start BBQs. Was a good childhood

File: 92ff306edff6ffd5bc0c9e16fff2ffa9.jpg (128KB, 1181x731px) Image search: [Google]

128KB, 1181x731px

Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka

File: Hurricane.jpg (311KB, 1926x1223px) Image search: [Google]

311KB, 1926x1223px

>>34534492
neat

File: 4a1f350fe22d4081cd5d26a7afcddf0b--military-art-military-history.jpg (54KB, 736x552px) Image search: [Google]

54KB, 736x552px

>tfw ywn participate in a mass airborne landing
>closest thing you can get is a Ranger airfield seizure

C-47 is my planefu

>>34534545
It's a shame he didn't take the offer. I can understand why though, at the time it wasn't so iconic. He had loads of tanks on his land though. My nan had a couple of STEN guns too.

I would kill for a ride in a spitfire. A place near me does them but they're stupidly expensive.

>>34531302
>ww2 aircraft
Read the op before posting

File: P-47.jpg (143KB, 1152x864px) Image search: [Google]

143KB, 1152x864px

>>34534620
Did the tanks work? What kinds of tanks were they?

File: 77.jpg (79KB, 1024x683px) Image search: [Google]

79KB, 1024x683px

>>34534138
>>34534406
>only supreme performance fighters which had no impact on the war for favourites
Also the F8F were build with .50cals before the war ended.
>>34534683
Tanks!

>>34534683
Yeah. I got to drive one with my uncle when I was around 4-6. Can't remember what they were. He repaired and restored them for museums.

File: hawker tempest.jpg (237KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

237KB, 1024x768px

>>34531286
>pushes your shit FAR in

File: 1466372856211.jpg (225KB, 1306x904px) Image search: [Google]

225KB, 1306x904px

>>34534518
>>34534321
>>34533608

The little huntress! Good tastes.

File: f4u.jpg (226KB, 1920x1200px) Image search: [Google]

226KB, 1920x1200px

You're a big guy.

File: Corsair firing rockets.jpg (2MB, 2560x1600px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2560x1600px

>>34534901
>F4U

>>34531304
>What are these, Spitfires?
End yourself

File: 109.jpg (248KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

248KB, 1920x1080px

>>34534865
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5jdix_w5Ag
Hurray Oh Little Me 109!

File: blohm-and-voss-bv141.jpg (114KB, 800x496px) Image search: [Google]

114KB, 800x496px

BV 141, because wtf are we even trying to do here