Favorite world war 2 plane!

yuppa · Post by **yuppa** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 5:29 am

wellit depended on the pilots abilities,and if they had the advantage as well.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:53 am

Here's a cool WWII plane story I found just now...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2962494.stm

tricky bastage

Sub0 · Post by **Sub0** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:56 pm

I like the flying fortress my dad liked the flying wing (first Stealth)

Sub0 · Post by **Sub0** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 1:43 pm

mroni wrote:Heh Well first off I wouldn't take any rumors of the F 14s retirement too soon. There is no other plane in the world that can track as many targets at the same time. The second man in the tomcat is the radar operator and that makes a big ass difference. Ok back to world war 2. The boeing P 26 Peashooter was the only planes the phillipino air force had. But they managed to take out a couple of zeros! Consider the P 26 was as the name implies from 1926 and a sick joke compared to the Zero thats pretty impressive.
yuppa wrote:wellit depended on the pilots abilities,and if they had the advantage as well.

.. and if the zeros where in the air or not lol

Sub0 · Post by **Sub0** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 1:50 pm

heh... looks like the YB49 didn't take flight till '47... tough noogies...

http://www.airspacemag.com/asm/Web/Site ... gwing.html

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:05 pm

i'm not going to bother reading the whole thread ... so i'll jsut say p-51d mustang ... sure it was a flying gastank and it turned into a giant firecracker as soon as it got hit ... but it had amazing manuerability and was a p[retty fast plane ... plus it was jsut cool looking.

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:08 pm

yuppa wrote:Hey the Buddist use the symbol before the Nazi"s ever touched it and perverted the "Crux, Gamatta' Other name for the Swatika. Which was a symbol in Kanji. Not taht far a stretch as to where Manji"s Name came from eh?

ok this has probalby been addressed, but the buddhist swastika "turns" in the opposite dirrection of teh nazi one, plus the buddhist swastika is square and parallel with teh ground, the nazi one has a corner pointing to the ground.

And the romans also used the same symbol as the nazi's, it was a good luck symbol ... the swastika is a really old symbol ...

Mroni · Post by **Mroni** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 10:30 pm

Otohiko wrote:Here's a cool WWII plane story I found just now...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2962494.stm

tricky bastage

LOl well that was an interesting story. I like how stuff comes to light after all these years if the right people are looking at the old stuff.

Mr Oni

Mroni · Post by **Mroni** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 10:45 pm

Sub0 wrote:heh... looks like the YB49 didn't take flight till '47... tough noogies...

http://www.airspacemag.com/asm/Web/Site ... gwing.html

Heh the Germans had a flying wing in world war 2 the Go 229 I think it was called. That was a really interesting article. If you ever get a chance to the old War of the worlds movie they use a B 49 to drop an atom bomb on the aliens. Interesting that it couldn't even carry one.

Mr Oni

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 10:51 am

Really? I was always under the impression that's what the B-49 was for... perhaps not. I remember watching a whole video about the B-49. Had a radar for aiming the bombs... it really seemed like it was hellishly hard to aim those though.