Focke Wulf
Please, can someone solve an argument for me.?
In a discussion last night about WW2 Fighter Planes, I voted the Focke-Wulf Ta152H or the F4U as the best Fighter Planes.( I know the Ta 152H was a late to the war).
One friend voted the F4U Corsair while another said the Grumman Hellcat was the best.
Please can anyone solve this argument for me.
CATHORIO.
Thanks to everyone for the answers.
My dilema is that ;Yes the Spitfire was a fantastic little plane but it's range was limited. It is worth mentioning that Spitfires had carburetors, not fuel injection, and the engines would quit for lack of fuel if the aircraft was flown upside down. One of my arguments which led to this question. It's combat range was 395 miles.
Actually, if you look at the specs. of the planes you mentioned, each had its strong and weak points. It depended on the mission, and what plane it was fighting against. Maybe not a plane at all.... which was best against ground troops and anti-aircraft fire?
For instance, one of the worst dogfight aircraft in the war was the stuka. Yet... if I had to do some very close combat ground support for troops, it couldn't be beat! It could come almost down to the ground vertically and drop a bomb just meters from its own friendly troops without endangering them much. It was also armored so it could take more rounds than most anything in the air even today.
The Mustang could take so much fire that it is frightening! Germans who faced the Mustang told me that it took 10 times the anti-aircraft fire that any Russian or 5 times the British plane could take and it would still strafe the heck out of their position! (this was from a Panzer SS veteran).
The Japanese Zero could do all sorts of damage just as long as it wasn't hit too many times because it's agility was due to having almost no (and later NO) armor! Until we figured that out, we were scared $hitless of that plane, and once we found out we simply used incendiary rounds and they fell out of the sky like so much bird poop.
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