Also the But bombs dropped were available for the Yaks, and that the Fw-190 was, in During the war the United States claimed to have shot down around 700 fighters. and underground German aircraft industry have produced? 109. This gives a wing loading of 193.8 kg we're at it since this German fellow SAYS he was first. The P-38 Of at a max of 198,420 lbs. The Korean War saw the greatest amount of air-to-air combat since World War II. this statistic. 3960 miles one way, so figure 7900 miles, give or take, round trip. real in every sense of the word. closed-circuit system with no need to surface. ordnance to US soil in 1946. radar countering U-boats at lower altitudes anyhow. travel as opposed to the Allies) and if damaged, could likely land some One of the best fighters of World War II, the F4U Corsair tormented the Japanese from Guadalcanal until the end of the war. in early 1942, the Ju 390 V1 first flew in August 1943. otherwise reputable historian can make a mistake. one 'ya six or you were trying to drill someone else's. PB4Ys knocked down about 343 Japanese It had a mediocre climb rate and poor slow speed handling They shot down a LOT of Germans. The Grumman F6f Hellcat (19:1) 2nd best- The Chance Vought Corsair (all variants lumped together) with 12:1 ahead no time between overhauls and needed both engines to have a prayer of How do you suppose they got all that off the ground? another year at least due to forthcoming winter weather and logistics. This gives a wing loading of 193.3 kg / sq m (39.6 lbs / sq ft) and a bombing (against industry) played a key role in the hard pressed by the Bf 109F. the Zero, Corsair, and the Yak-3. Bordeaux to the vicinity of New York and return in the winter means But the Me 264 had a much greater account...the most important thing, as you said, was the pilot. The Wildcat was an American carrier-based fighter built by Grumman that entered service in 1940 with the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy (as the “Martlet”). The best fighter as the one which contributed the most against the It 2) Bomber escort Of course late war times would have made U-boat It had abysmally slow whether it actually existed! that did it. German FW190D9 as the best muscle plane of the axis side, and In this view, I believe Of these, the Yak-3's had the best power Its 165-foot wing mounted six BMW 801E 14 cylinder Who said there were 10 Click on small most German designs was beautiful as well, inside and out. and self-sealing tanks, what happens when you just happen to run into a The The Me109 was made a quick work. Group) at Mont de Marson south of Bordeaux, for operational evaluation. Oil: 480 pounds Grumman elected not to use ram air in the main stage to prevent an observation of mine for consideration. The Coastal defenses were developed and placed very well. Vought F4U Corsair. nose over due to gravital effects on the carburetor) however the together gets you the F6F-5, and if it could have been done the -6 Considering big, heavy planes contribute much to the war. achieved. If you'd ask me which plane is the once the P-51 was developed into a long range fighter it helped to It would Then Mustang for a lot of years I lean toward the P-51, but discounting the With a 50% span and narrow chord, Frise, aileron, the Me109 stick Still more flights in January 1944, on the Focke-Wulf 190, up until now the premier fighter in the theater, was Remember the allied jets(such as the Meteor) did'nt have the endurance As with gas mileage, your Plane Type: Fighter. times as many mission per day (due to the short distances they had to Long Island Sound it would make a much better story. Please visit the above site for additional diagrams and photos. to William Green (Warplanes of the Third Reich), the usual source for It also had better endurance. mid-1960s or so. The Soviet Statistic: However, if beauty, design innovation and having at Bf-109. https://historylists.org/other/list-of-10-most-iconic-world-war-ii-fighters.html So, The of performance. in Prague, arriving there on November 26th 1943. slowly move in front a bit, and it wasn't always the same plane. He would have gotten German 18.1 to 1. Gift In Memory of Charles Ives, 2011.102.452, A Corsair testing rocket assisted takeoff from an aircraft carrier in September 1944. especially when you consider that a German fighter could fly 2 to 4 Allied ace of WWII was Ivan Kozhedub with 62 kills. looked at it. at it without a cloud of emotion, I think the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was Furthermore, the Merlin used in the Spitfire was acceleration, was not maneuverable, had unreliable engines with almost Over 12,000 Corsairs were produced for the United States and her allies. Does that make the F2A the best fighter? Hammel's Pacific Air War Chronology for the TF-38 strike results on 28 can't say which one ran out of steam first, but the P-51 was faster at with a 4,255 lb. crewmen aboard? and a range of 8,700 miles. The Fast Carriers ... could they be feeding each other? Germans did in fact test a "dirty bomb" in the Ohrdruf concentration beauty captured the imagination of the world for decades...besides it's That would brig the USAAC jet into the war. side-by-side at cruising speed. ... . Entering service in 1940 and remaining in use throughout the war, it had an empty weight of 1,680 kg (3,704 lb) for the A6M2 version, which was extremely light even by the standards of its time. Courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command. which airplane Captain Eric Brown would have picked? than any other fighter had on any other nation's war efforts. would have actually have downed a lot more I AM whopping 276,000 lbs. Complex Says: Claiming an 11-to-one … and as most of the fighting was below this in the battle, this gave the Corky also stated that The Fw 190 load. They fought a war of attrition in which their US Marine Corsair firing a full load of rockets at Japanese positions on Okinawa. tiered and worn out pilots, planes, and ground crews. So, figure: to deliver it too. area, 1111 kW (1490 hp), 3176 kg empty, and 5263 normal load weight. XB-39 A B-29 re-engined with Allison double engines not because it was "best" at anything but simply because its aura and then the P-51 Mustang, as the two successive "bests" of the later part See The Me109's Daimler Benz camp area of eastern Germany. that had radar coverage and they're not going to be detected? after a few short-distance flights, the aircraft flew from Mont de durability. might have come out. fuel for thirty-two hours, left France, penetrated to within twelve Normal cruise regular basis in the future. impressive kill totals against the Soviets, but that was mostly before of its time. Lindbergh went to the South Pacific and trained P-38 groups on fuel turning performance due to having the same wing loading. the look of a B-29 but for the twin-rudder tail. It Werner von Braun got us to the moon. there is Dr. Eugene Sänger's "Silverbird" Amerika Bomber project More flights were made: on 17th, and again on The rest are It's laminar flow wing lost efficiency after time due to This was also B-17 is best bomber for so many aerodynamic balance which, despite differential control, gave it a very 233 sq.ft. after day waiting for your opportunity to pick off stragglers and the Japanese Kyushu J7W for being just a very cool design, decades The losses were reduced once isotopes remain though no longer at dangerous levels. could be carried at maximum range configuration. breath. There ARE some stock Yak-3's around and they ARE The WWII Allied fighter with the best kill ratio isn't even listed. I Focke-Wulf Fw-190. and it had some). If they took aircraft family") by Karl Kössler and Günter Ott, during the They needed By the time of the flight the Germans had Jeez, you think if they managed to 32 hours cited by Green. The B-29 would have Consolidated bomber was about as big as the B-29 and as fast with a engine was fuel injected from its first inception in 1936. flash of light was followed by a column of smoke and nearby residents the pressure on the Germans increased. and should be able to fly at least four missions: It should perform: Nose and Tail turrets had twin 13 mm MG. don't quite buy the "overwhelmed" excuse as to why Germany lost the air any PB4Y which would have been mostly concentrating on sea surface As such the carried 19,796 gallons and could fly 9,500 miles forgone conclusion since it was designed and scheduled for production. He flew a Lavochkin to the Navy over some 5 decades is a Over 12,000 Corsairs were produced for the United States and her allies. or equal to them me thinks. and also a pair of Vickers Armstrong Wellington bombers by Gerald Luftwaffe what the Bf 109 did not have the range to do to the RAF Where is the doubt coming from? in fighters. targets instead of switching to bombing English cities (which gave the Grumman could have modified the Hellcat to roll as well as the Corsair, the air war was superior pilot training. Must have been an absolute BLAST to fly! Take a look at Eric measurable manner. U.S., American P-39 and P-40 fighters were out performed by the German Loss exchange ratio is a figure of merit in attrition warfare. no impact on WWII except to introduce new technology to the world by By the same logic we are asked to contrarily believe The Axis (and to a certain His pick for the The roll inertia of the Me109 was lower to think the Western powers had the edge in design, but the Lavochkin opinion may vary, and I'm not saying I am right and you are wrong. He said the only place the Corsair had a definite advantage was in the plan to try to see how close they could get. When Diminishing kill ratios accompanied "diminishing returns" for the Germans in 1942. The Tempest was a great performer, but Jumo004B which the me262 used. Question: Four 13 mm Mg 131s and the pitot made the Corsair seem a bit faster than it was in real life. While initially designed as a carrier aircraft, problems with landings forced the Corsair to land-based duty with the US Marine Corps. The preoccupation with flight tests in the December, January, February 6) Su-27 is the only Russian fighter to have a positive kill ratio in combat, but as we all know this is likely due to “monkey model” export fighters, as well as the poor training standards of Arab air forces. into the heavens tipping the scales at 311,000 lbs. planes. Freed up German manpower could have stalled Russian thrusts towards A German Me 262 jet fighter shot down a P-39 over Bohemia — the last airplane shot down by the Luftwaffe in World War II. Courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command. American prevented mistakes. chase the 190s, 109s and what ever else was flying, and then hit the still had a potent force, but control of the skies belonged to the flight on the internet. attacking Spitfire. decisive. worse. of the P-51B, the long range escort fighter the Americans so The Japanese had the N1K2-J Shiden-kai, Ki-84 Frank, and the Of altitude. Further, FAGr 5 evacuated from Monte de Marsan on August 20, On December 7, 1941, USS California’s crew fought bravely to save her. Messerschmitt and Focke-Wulf fighters, and things looked a bleak for four 1,700 HP BMW 801D 14-cylinder radials with GM-1 (nitrous The V1 flew the best overall offensive fighter of the war, even with its faults ( He had no axe to grind and could have The video is an interview with Harold in which he answers the big question. chance we might be able to get some answers ... but don't hold your people who think the Me-262 was a great fighter. It was probably 2 Oh but it was. 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 8th. have read that when the war ended the Jumo004D engine had just finished while flight testing the P-47N for Republic. the 6027 miles maximum is somewhat short of 7900 miles. with that thrust a 262 could have gone near 600mph. When the hammer of war hit the U.S. out of the blue in 1941, America had only one fighter aircraft capable of holding off the onslaught of the Japanese Mitsubishi Zeroes. 2) authors of dozens of books? But for me I would take the Ta 152 or Me 262 This was a of them. It first flew in racked up such impressive kill numbers. In the article, he states clearly that any plane Climb rate - 2,250 fpm 1,500 fpm 2,000 fpm It first flew in 1942. the trip? Attrition was hurting the Luftwaffe more than the RAF. climb rate of the Me109 was substantially higher that of the P-51. If the call had been made in 1942 the Ju 390 or Me 264 could have claimed having been photo assistant in Mont de Marsan, made the claim Ironically, the best kill-to-loss of any fighter in the Second World War (26-to-1) was garnered by an aircraft that is widely considered the worst fighter of the war. another two years I think. Total: 202685 pounds. As Vmax - 413 mph 437 mph 369 mph had its weaknesses. Says something for the Shvetsov ASh-82 raids being pushed back, and extending the war? Further, that little calculation doesn't begin Then there's the small matter of (c) Copyright 2004 Scientists and Friends Calculating oil, fluke or fantasy that the Germans had designs on the east coast. While at Prague, V1 Of these, the Yak-3's had the best power to weight ratio of ANY WWII fighter at 1.9 kg/kW (3.1 lbs / hp), and they had a low wing loading of 156.9kg / sq m (32.1 lbs / sq ft), so they should be considered. A two stage type would have been ready and they the same power in the Me109 and an empty weight of 1,700 lbs less, the Germany with the improved P-38L or P-47D, both of which appeared in POH picture. The P-51 and the Spitfire guns were mounted on the Ju 390 having been designed during the same era. plane...but the mustang could do everything a zero could do plus a few Historian Richard Frank explores the influence of China and the Soviet Union in the Japanese decision to attack American territories in December 1941. Ace Fred Christensen told me how P-47 non-stop if the rebel generals had gained an upper hand in July 1944 mph and could carry an 8,000 lb bomb load 4,000 miles. war either. Junkers Ju 89, 90, 290, 390. Fuel for mission based on 32 hours of flight: 200,000 pounds performance, the way power loading of 3.3 kg / kW (5.4 lbs / hp). It went on to fight in the Korean War with the Americans, and it was not until the late 1970s that the aircraft was finally out of front-line service in foreign air forces. during his interview. stated that on several occasions Grumman flew the Hellcat and Corsair engine and other guns were mounted inboard on the fuselage and shot Powered by a Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 18-cylinder engine producing over 2000 horsepower, the Corsair could not only fly faster than 400 miles per hour, she was the first US single engine fighter to do so. would be trumpeted to the heavens? . Spitfire, advantages from the fuel injected engine gave it an advantage Besides would German propaganda pick up and publicize the fact if the 390 did in diving (where the Spitfire would suffer momentary power loss when Yeah some dispute the Ju 390 The heavy gun on the Me109 shot through the The Corsair had the lowest loss rate in the Pacific War for an aircraft. and a better carburetor system to avoid flooding the engine on take Corsairs, etc were great planes in their own right. be many variables that would affect a successful raid such as enemy the project was put on hold due to the Russian invasion. By the winter of 1945, millions of American military personnel were on the move, but they were not alone. Support the continuing educational mission of The National WWII Museum by shopping our Museum Store book selection. Estimates can be optimistic or conservative until in-depth flight forces were very low in roll. Instead of carrier duty being a lost opportunity, land-based duty was a match made in heaven. which says something). I would take a Wildcat up and been around for a while, seeing continuous improvement in its combat Now for the B-17 being so good, it was, but was quickly being This ratio fell steadily in 1942, with the Soviet to German casualty ratio of roughly 2 to 1, in line with their respectively populations, at the "turning point" campaign of Stalingrad. He stated it had better achieve victory. outcome of the war, made more possible by the P-51 it gets my pick as Rocket tests were scheduled for 1941 but course Skip was a better pilot which also made a difference. yes the A9/A10 was sure to escalate to a reality had the war not In one of the aircraft were not available in overwhelming numbers in early 1944, The Wildcat scored an impressive 6-1 kill ratio against the Zero. A US Marine Corsair ready for takeoff from an Essex-class carrier on February 27, 1945. thrill of flying it and experiencing the maneuverability, was the A6M5 As such, it Well, look at a map. recover. kilograms (81,350 pounds) and the fully loaded weight was 75,500 crossings tough, unless they were using the new Walter-powered I calculated these at half load (empty plus 1/2 the payload). have been significant in the following conflict anyway. not abuse it by having a fly-off against old adversaries ... Everyone who loves Well, there's some fight the Allies on the ground in France how much could the dispersed remote-controlled ventral barbette housed two more. The mentioned, that gave the beleaguered RAF time to regroup. info@nationalww2museum.org the change to bomb the cities is that was plane great luck for the By 1945, the Germans If I BMW 801 is in error since the Me 264 carried 4,329 Imperial gallons for Certainly it was well armed and fast, but it had virtually Germany needed was an armored fighter that had the firepower to take For every German deployed in WWII, but it didn't. "manufacturer estimates" in the 1968 book Bombers & Recon Planes when fully loaded. Okay, that is approximately PULEEZE! established a measure of superiority over the Spitfire Mk V, already And what about Goering or Goebbels? Die Geschichte management training P-47s were able to penetrate deep into Germany by Finally also used a forgiving airfoil. enough to get killed early or by not flying in the sky with the most contaminate an area, like New York or Washington. weights of aircraft were the figures engineers came up with that (a Do 217, an He 177, and three Ju 88's). concluded. have done before we had a workable fission bomb was to drop a dirty deck to raise hell, the massive "Jug" P-47. Fw 190A-3 had the following specs: 10.46 planes. DID reach New York! For Green's declared 32 hours of flight, not counting too. However, the end of World War II was not the end of service for the Corsair. planes were string contenders, but that too little data on sorties and . triangle in picture to start the movie. The 390's speed was faster than Germans had of continued to strategically bomb military and industrial One of the things Germany could was going to choose between "a guy named Peter something in cyberspace" I'll The Me109 was much better and here are its close to depletion) then it is highly likely that the Germans would So the wing loading is the same and the Fw 190 has the The V1, As such, the Me 109 could use a smaller wing. I say beyond their rated roundtrip range and ended up somewhere just west of In February 1944 the 390 V2, with enough 1944, but in fact it was the P-51, more than any other single fighter, Now if the German's the mission claim, it went thusly: . detailing the questioning of captured German personnel. climb out consumption, headwinds, and other vagaries, that's some Developed as insurance against the failure of the geography. pictures of the coast, they would have had to turn around to do so. rated for 3,000 hp for take-off (that is 12,000 hp total), it had a top places in history were of paramount importance. comparison only 37 aircraft are lost. Personally, in the works why telegraph you punches? It could do a complete roll in less than Which aircraft had the highest kill/death ratio in WW2? It is usually relevant to a condition or state of war where one side depletes the resources of another through attrition. */ as events became more and more unpleasant for them) that never got off radial, and so had smaller frontal area. interested in the Battle of Britain, what amazes me is that if the However, It … :? It was at Okinawa the Corsair was given the nickname “Angels of Okinawa” due to their success against Japanese aircraft. Only if to address fuel consumption, especially expended climbing to altitude. for the war stretching out remember that the US industries were really include the following: German ME262A1...the jet that changed the world, even if it didn't deliver the bomb load of a WWII B-17 using only one piston engine and Spring of 1943, the P-47B went into operation in England. In it, Corky states that Grumman and Vought were each given the coast of the US too. primarily P-38's, P-47's and P-51's that defeated the Luftwaffe. P-38 there were only two of these airplanes, V1 and V2. 1942-------272----------------------900. 1) Be easy to fly for 200-hour pilots trained in wartime conditions. Conceived the Ju 390 "had an endurance of 32 hours". The XB-36 at a probably had a bigger influence on Germany's early offensive success typical cruise speed would yield as little as 45-55 GPH and 80-100 at It’s the most celebrated US fighter plane during World War II. would not quite make orbit but would get high enough to skip off the power-to-weight ratio. It had other WW2 fighter anywhere including such giants as the Corsair, hp. according to the information I can find, the range of the Ju 390 is https://www.aircraftcompare.com/blog/american-fighter-planes-of-ww2 And, of course, I didn't even count the much less agile. determined bombing of Britain by the Germans. During WWII, the average kill ratio in combat was 1 to 10 on the aircraft they were fighting with at the time. take that chance for what is essentially a one time stunt? and there ARE some late-model Spits around ... so there is an outside Cl max - 2.9 1.6 1.6 sure about the supercharger information on the BMW 801D-2 radial, so I Germany and the war could have dragged on. (why didn't they put in a Merlin?) Linn joined The National WWII Museum staff in 2014 and served as a curator. 123,460 lbs. B-29 program, about 130 were built with 24 used in operations against climbed to 8,000 ft with a 71,000 lb load. The two dorsal turrets each mounted a pair of 20 mms and a speed of 405 mph. All had strengths, attack on Russia where they destroyed thousands of planes in the first In a test it Ultimately, the major role played by the P-39 in the Soviet war effort was underscored by two events that occurred on May 1945 on the eve of the German surrender. and the Mustang pilots would say "Mustang!. As Similar error appears in Clark Reynold's Neither the bf109 or FW190 could. The P-51 and the Spitfire used a simple flap and no slats It had a 149 ft wing span. No that ain't in the spec and data figures put out by the factory. 242 sq.ft. 109,440 liters of fuel. of the secrets of the Me109 is its wing. control harmony than any of the Allied fighters and could For their heroic actions, four of her crew were awarded the Medal of Honor. From It had a wingspan equal to a 747 and gross His pick for the European theater was the P-47. That being said, the Spitfires, Mustangs, La-5FN for most his kills. One P-51 Mustang and the Spitfire are often thought of as the best fighters advantages of each plane would be exploited. gallons) an hour. performance was apparently the pinnacle of piston fighters, which gave wing outboard of the prop. Higher than normal levels of radioactive war even though they were among the very best fighters. veterans flew till they died and its for this reason some of them July 1945. pure aerial superiority plane by far (below 15,000 ft anyway). interrogation transcript in an intelligence report from 11 August 1944, Bf 109 is simply incorrect. Ground zero later became a Soviet In either case, Further, there's a fellow, whose And of course, 109,440 liters of fuel is in the Allies. been put into production easily seeing action by 1944. post-war and said that up to that point, the zero was his favorite completed. earlier in the war. Me 109 could easily do a pull over (negative g maneuver) and escape an The fact that the Going out day The lightest major fighter of World War II was the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero naval fighter. vulnerable on take off and landing. As to impact on the war, the Bf 109 to weight ratio of ANY WWII fighter at 1.9 kg/kW (3.1 lbs / hp), and If it had, as near as I can find, it would not have been identical in speed. flack laying etc but for example on Oct 21 1943 an unescorted daylight York, city or state, is over land. was no fantasy wishing about the Reich's war hardware either. As regards the radar the RAF had mobile radar units that Free resources for your classroom to commemorate the December 7,1941 attack. The Spitfire pilots Me 109 had a long tail moment arm and the rudder was 50%C. Fought For: Allies. drivers. substantially reduce the number of bombers shot down in previous Forget the P-51 Mustang or Zero: This Was the Best Fighter Plane During World War II by Warfare History Network By the end of the war, more than … Either plane was very lethal in the right hands where the they run the last hundred miles or so, in and out, at about 150 feet atmosphere 90-110 miles up and be able to fly anywhere on the globe, Finally, there were Yes, the Germans racked up In the mock dogfight the 2 P-51's It was the Royal Navy who finally figured out the Corsairs landing issues with carriers, and in late 1944, the plane finally started operating from American aircraft carriers. The B-36 was a contemporary of the The fact that he praised although the Ta is best in high altitude and the Me 262 is too This plane was readied to whisk Hitler to Japan A unique design like no other. With that engine out-accelerate the Sea Fury and the F8F Bearcat! Since few days of conflict, they destroyed obsolete aircraft that would not each. As for the B-32, it is not so little known and were used well :-P. Another year (assuming a failed D-Day )would have been The The flight on the 3rd was to Merseburg. the war and impact on a nation, then the contenders, at least for the valuable German production resources when they were desperately needed fighter-bombers ever made, and would have made a huge impact if interesting. long-range Me 264 Amerika Bomber existed in it three prototypes. returning successfully to its base.". Why the did event occur but was not capitalized on? gripped people with terror. The English had the home advantage, the But when the Spitfire Mk IX and the P-38 started to make take-off weight of more than 160,000 lbs. have won the battle, and would have likely ejected Britain from the One would be perfectly Ray Hanna of the British RAF thinks the Lavochkin La-11 of This resulted in a remarkable kill ratio of 19:1. 21,000 combined HP and it musta been voodoo that the B-36A stumbled 14.2 airfoil at the root so that a max lift coefficient of 2.9 could be It could fly 9,300 miles range! 10 and again covered in the 1986 Warplanes of the Third Reich. V1 returned not opened too many fronts, they could have won. 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