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GSP7
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Fokker E3

http://www.rotecradialengines....tomers/PaulMusso.htm



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Not pretty, but my favorite is the T-6 Texan. I love the sound of a radial engine.
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F-7 Tigercat

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The Spitfire is the most beautiful aircraft ever built. Period.

The best sounding aircraft is anything with a Merlin Rolls Royce engine in it.
 
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Another one I've always liked is the Bell P-39, a unique single seater with engine behind the driver. My fave of the series is the P-63F. I think only two were built, one was destroyed, and the remaining one has been restored beautifully, and is being flown by the CAF. I have a pic of it taken from one of the "Ghosts" calendars framed and hanging one my wall. The rear engine placement allows for a very pointy nose, but the mechanic in me wonders about changing engines....

All in all, another very nice looking and inovative a/c.

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Hard question.
having seen almost all the WWII survivors either static or viable; my first love is the Spit, then the Jug, the 51, the -------

But the having seen one of last known Caproni-Reggiane 2005's, it's up there in the list.


If we get into the fighters that "never were" the Shinden has got to be there.


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but the mechanic in me wonders about changing engines....


Most guys I've talked to who flew them were more worried about the driveshaft spinning around a couple feet under your crotch!


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Actually the shaft was below and left, not under him but if the cannon mounts sheared I suppose you could end up with 37 mm nuts shocker


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drive shaft and cannon layout

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Most attractive in war to me means a weapon got the job done. While it's a miracle and a testament to their bravery for the Wildcat pilots in the early part of WW II to have kept us in the war in the Solomons, Midway, etc., it was the F6 Hellcat, neither pretty nor ugly, just a plain jane workhorse that won the air battles in the most engagements in the Pacific, the most successful ever, that appeals to me as really attractive after reading 1000's and 1000's of pages about the plane and it's pilots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hellcats_F6F-3.jpg


In the European Theatre, the Spitfire engineers were able to match the Germans' aeronautical advances in technology, improvement for improvement as the war coursed on, except of course against the German jets. Thank goodness, there never was a call for the P51 and P47 to have to fight against the Spit. Glad we had all three and that the Russians had a favorite of mine, oddly the P39. They knew how to use it for their purposes.

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O.K., B..
I'll bite.

A Curtiss YP-60?

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O.K., B..
I'll bite.

A Curtiss YP-60?

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RG Rhodes
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Ah so.. Able Mable. I had forgotten about this one. That shot from above really shows just how big this thing is.

Went over to Wiki and found a pic of two of them carrying (each) three 2,200 pound torps, twelve 500 pound bombs and ammo for the guns for a payload of 12,648 pounds. This is about like three Buicks. (!)

Thanks

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The History Channel had a excellent program on the Mosquito tonite. They covered it thru the war and documented the famous raid at Amiens and Shell house.
It was just an excellent job of covering the best twin engine fighter bomber of the war.

As a little side bar just blocks from where I sit right now there used to be a Plywood plant that supplied a lot of the Spruce plywood used in the construction of the Mossie.
Another interesting fact was that at the time the majority of the workers in the plant were females, many of whom stayed on after the war and worked thru to their retirements.
I had a very lucky occurrence back about 1969 I was in a RCAF B-707 taxing at Nameo airbase just outside of Edmonton and I believe I saw the take off of the last flying example of a Mossie in Canada.
I watched it run up and taxi onto the runway and then off she went like a batoutahell.
IIRC it was painted a lite Blue.
I'm lucky enough to live underneath base leg for Hawarden, on Cheshire /Clwyd border, The last airworthy Mossie that was in the UK, (The one used to make the film 633 squadron & others)lived at Hawarden airfield, formerly a WW11 shadow factory adjoining a fighter training station, she went down at an airshow not far from here at Barton airfield near Manchester during a display, the aircrew knew I was always standing out on the balcony watching them come in & out as the Merlins would always give advance warning of the approach, Our chimney pot has had some close shaves from her!!!! Roll Eyes
 
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