worst/best looking aircraft of ww2

magick · 05-08-2003 11:34pm #1

in your opinion what was the worst looking or best looking aircraft of ww2?

Jim · 05-08-2003 11:44pm

the allied p51 always floated my boat.

P51 Mustang

Manach · 06-08-2003 9:26am

Best Looking - RAF Spitfire, it had the look of eagles
http://www.spitfire-museum.com/

Worst looking - Storch / Stork, the reconnisance plane used by the Luftwaffe
http://www.piteraq.dk/flight/storch.html

mike65 · 11-08-2003 10:29pm

Sex in the air!

Well its not pretty -

Mike.

DapperGent · 11-08-2003 11:45pm

Mmmm... Mosquito. Tasty.

The Beer Baron · 19-08-2003 8:27pm

Erm, always been a fan of the Stukas. (The classic photo being this one )
They're ugly but mean as fk @ the same time- like the modern A-10.

A close second for the Messerschmit (spelling?) Me-262
Far's I know they were the 1st full-production jet fighter back in 1941 but there weren't enough for them to make any real impact. Shows how far ahead they were, they were messing about with jet engines far back as 1939. Of course the allies were quick to imitate like the BritishMeteor but really the first jet-powered dogfights didn't materialise until Korea.

As for ugly, well, no wonder dey lost dah bloody wah!

Sundy · 28-08-2003 6:52pm

hmmm i have always been quite a fan of Flying boats, transport and bombers than fighters!

But to be honest WW1 planes float my boat more than WW2.

The likes of the sopwith pup and camel are classics and the Foker E11 the first real fighter!

happybunny · 29-08-2003 3:11pm

Right up my street this topic, my fav has to be the B-17G what a beautiful plane that was

sceptre · 01-09-2003 12:27am

The sexy Japanese Zero A6M2 type 21

Pic1
Pic2
(each pic is about 250k, hence links rather than image)

None of your green planes for me thanks.

I quite like the Spitfire (better plane than the Zero judging by combat between the two), the Camels were a favourite since reading Biggles as a nipper. I'll stick with the Pearl Harbor plane though.

spooiirt!! · 23-09-2003 4:42pm

i think the stukas were the coolest.

Scruff · 23-09-2003 5:08pm

the p-51 was the porsche or the sky.

ugliest, but one of the best was the P-47 "Jug" Thunderbolt. Damn ugly but seeing as how they built 15,683 of them they must have been doin something right

24-09-2003 1:54pm

i've always loved the Focke-Wolf FW187

http://www.tgplanes.com/plshow.asp?photo=fw187c.jpg

Pet hate:

FM2 Wildcat. It's so ugly

http://www.tgplanes.com/plshow.asp?photo=208_10.jpg
http://www.tgplanes.com/plshow.asp?photo=208_1.jpg

shock · 25-09-2003 5:58pm

I always liked the Hurricane:
http://www.spitfire-museum.com

I never liked alot of the Soviet planes especially the I16 Ishak. Too stubby.
http://www.tgplanes.com/plshow.asp?photo=i16.jpg

Capt'n Midnight · 08-01-2004 1:27am

also the Junkers Ju 287V1
http://www.samoloty.ow.pl/str407.htm

Then there is this lot (not all got off the drawing board)
http://cmeunier.chez.tiscali.fr/

And these http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/fut/futussr/futussr.htm
http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/uniavail.htm
http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/uniphot.htm
though many were post WWII

magick · 08-01-2004 2:50am

Also a good site to check out is Luft46.com , and click on the luft art section some great pics there from prototype luftwaffe aircraft!

Turkey · 17-01-2004 6:45am

I think the Mosquito was the best looking and it sounds beautiful too, it was also very efficent.
Worst looking, probally the Whitney??

Capt'n Midnight · 17-01-2004 9:14pm

Originally posted by Manach
Best Looking - RAF Spitfire, it had the look of eagles
http://www.spitfire-museum.com/

Worst looking - Storch / Stork, the reconnisance plane used by the Luftwaffe
http://www.piteraq.dk/flight/storch.html

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/hurricane.html

A total of 1,715 Hurricanes flew with Fighter Command during the period of the Battle, far in excess of all other British fighters combined. Having entered service a year before the Spitfire, the Hurricane was "half-a-generation" older, and was markedly inferior in terms of speed and climb. However, the Hurricane was a robust, manoeuvrable aircraft capable of sustaining fearsome combat damage before write-off; and unlike the Spitfire, it was a wholly operational, go-anywhere do-anything fighter by July 1940. It is estimated that its pilots were credited with four-fifths of all enemy aircraft destroyed in the period July-October 1940.

Also since it had unstressed covering largely of frabic it was much easier & quicker to repair than the Spitfire.

Ah the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork)
Could take off in 65m and land in 20m- not bad for a plane 9.9m long !
Could hover into a 25mph headwind too..

Turkey · 18-01-2004 3:03am

Also, it is true to say that the Hurricane was a better wepons platform then the Spitfire, as it was slightly more stable and had the guns arranged differently, which increased their efficency.
I think I can agree, to an extent about the storch, espically if one can resist any temptation to judge by any other classification apart from apperence.

Lorddrakul · 30-01-2004 1:18am

Without doubt, one of the most beautiful planes of WWII:
The Gotha Go 229

Go 229

Ahead of its time.

LD

Myg · 30-01-2004 1:27am

By Far the most sexy plane was the A6m "zero", with the latter war pain schemes!!!!

http://community.webshots.com/album/31561948pGyHJrQaIg

http://www.mucheswarbirds.com/A6M5om.html

Weird, posted without reading the other replies and saw someone else agreed! :P

Capt'n Midnight · 06-02-2004 10:41pm

The replacement for the B29 - this was to have been used against Germany if England was invaded

You can understand the nickname "aluminium overcast"

They were the main US bomber -383 made - until replaced by the B52

[edit - changed for smaller color photo]

regeneration · 08-02-2004 7:01pm

Worst looking, though a slightly cool idea, the Focke Wulf Triebflügel:
http://www.germanvtol.com/tribflugfolder/triebf.html

worst/best looking aircraft of ww2

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