"Tami, John E" wrote:

Excuse me.......

P-38 Highest Kill ratio in the Pacific......They most certainly did not NEED
the second engine to get home, although it sure could be nice in the rare
instances it was. (in Europe it was a different story, Turbo Ducting on the
early models caused fires at the altitudes/low temps they flew over the
continent....never a problem in the Pacific or the J/L series)

P-39 Dog of a fighter, great ground attack.....

P-40 Faster down low then the Zero, one of the fastest roll rates in WW2,
could take a lot of punishment.

P-51

Kawasaki Hein (known as the Tony) Fast late model Japanese fighter, first
starting showing in numbers in '43.

Europe:

BF-109 The most produced fighter of the war.....

TA-152 The High Speed High Altitude version of the FW190...with a large two
stage supercharged Inline.

John E. Tami
www.cfsipgames.com

  Yeah, yeah.  The Hellcat (F6F) shot down the most aircraft in WWII, even tho
many authors erroneously award this to the P51.  What aircraft holds the world
speed record for a piston aircraft?  What kind of motor?   Big thick 60
knot-landing
speed Navy wing and it STILL is the fastest.   Thunderbolt was used for
ground attack because the P51 didn't come back often enough - too many
coolant lines and
radiators to get you home if you got hit.  R2800 would haul you a long way with
a cyl or two shot off.

Submarine.   ;-)

Bill Freeman

Good thing nobody is shooting at our rotary engine airplanes :-)

Paul Lamar
 
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