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roycv

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Re: What's your favorite aircraft?
« Reply #500 on: April 04, 2021, 08:22:53 am »

Hi Peter Hmm. it seems to be a moot point on speeds.  Depends on what you read or see quoted.  I picked up the info I mentioned from a Mark Felton video, I think he said that the 262 could not keep up with th Arado, but with this distance in time difficult, I think he was refering to the PR version of the Arado.

I noticed in passing that the He 162 on a single page from a Google search has 3 quite different top speeds attributed to it.
All fascinating stuff though.
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Re: What's your favorite aircraft?
« Reply #501 on: April 04, 2021, 11:00:49 am »

Roy, I did some further research, and according to the Smithsonian Magazine the Arado 234 had a top speed of 456 mph. According to the Air Force Magazine the Me 262 had a top speed of 547 mph. As you say, there are different versions of the aircraft specifications, but the Smithsonian is a respected institution, as is the Air Force Magazine. I have watched several Mark Felton videos on YouTube, and found them both interesting and informative. I guess we may never know for sure, but one thing is certain, for their time, both aircraft were extremely fast.


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Re: What's your favorite aircraft?
« Reply #502 on: April 05, 2021, 03:07:22 pm »

You are forgetting the Heinkel He219 Uhu or doesn't it count because it is not american.
Jim:

No I didn't forget the HE219.  It started it's life as a recognizance aircraft and was later heavily redesigned into a successful night fighter.  The P-61 on the other hand was designed to be a night fighter, and later it was modified for other roles.

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Re: What's your favorite aircraft?
« Reply #503 on: April 05, 2021, 08:16:45 pm »

Jim:

No I didn't forget the HE219.  It started its life as a reconnaissance aircraft and was later heavily redesigned into a successful night fighter.  The P-61 on the other hand was designed to be a night fighter, and later it was modified for other roles.

Don
While it did have a background as a paper project that was never built or developed the actual 219 was designed from scratch as a night fighter which many class as the best nightfighter of WW2, its main problem being lack of numbers built. (ref William Green's classic Warplanes of the Third Reich)

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Re: What's your favorite aircraft?
« Reply #504 on: April 05, 2021, 08:24:00 pm »

Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown in his books on his test flights of the aircraft he was tasked to fly didn’t really have a good word about either aircraft! Too big, too heavy and underpowered- especially the He219 which was so underpowered that if you lost an engine you had to bale out (or eject in the He219’s case). There is even doubt that the infamous shooting down of six Mosquito aircraft in one night by one aircraft is fiction as records don’t show that many losses in one night for Mosquito bombers or night fighters.
I’m not knocking the aircraft as both are fantastic to look at and did introduce new features into aircraft design.
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Re: What's your favorite aircraft?
« Reply #505 on: February 21, 2023, 05:33:50 pm »


Not a favourite aircraft as such, but we stared in awe at small pictures, in books, when we kids....
 .... now look at what is publicly available on 'tinternet!!
 
There is enough info here, for a few of us to go find one of these planes, 'borrow it' and take it for a joyride!   {-)
( You up for it Nick?! )



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https://youtu.be/DMYS070bioE


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Re: What's your favourite aircraft?
« Reply #506 on: August 28, 2023, 11:11:10 pm »

Probably going to be met by groans of oh no not another one but
Supermarine Spitfire Mk8 Merlin engine and the retractable tail wheel
 2 engines of course is the Mosquito
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Re: What's your favourite aircraft?
« Reply #507 on: August 29, 2023, 11:27:53 am »

Ditto Peter but the MK9 Spit. After seeing it fly at Mildenhall, had to add the SR71.


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Re: What's your favourite aircraft?
« Reply #508 on: August 29, 2023, 12:16:52 pm »

Many years ago [1983?], and for work .......Sydney to Perth, then a Fokker F28 by MacRobinson Miller :-))  .....from Perth to Dampier nonstop

[MMA's one Class, but equivalent to today's First Class :kiss: ]..... then on the return flight a week later was a 'Milk Run Flight' stopping at 3 or 4 smaller Airports on the way back to Perth..............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacRobertson_Miller_Airlines


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Re: What's your favourite aircraft?
« Reply #509 on: August 29, 2023, 02:28:39 pm »

Mk9 Spitfire after having a flight and flying her.
In my opinion nothing in the sky to touch her!!


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