O.k. not the most intellectually based post ever but, who cares. Everyone’s got a favorite plane right? I mean sure you fly a few others every now and then but at the end of the day you always end up going back to your favorite. The aircraft you have a special bond with, when you see one get shot up in a dogfight you can't stop yourself deliberately seeking out the guy that did it and teaching him a lesson. When flying your favorite aircraft you often use the external cameras just because it looks cool. Sure it my not handle as well as other aircraft, sure it's less maneuverable, slower, and the guns couldn't punch through tissue paper, but you don't care right? 'Cos it's your favorite plane. So what is it? Which is your favorite? Shout it out loud with pride!
What would Freud say about me if my answer to your question was that I don't have my fav and that I really like to fly them all and that there's never enough of them and that I'd sometimes even like to fly two at the time if possible?
No one in sane mind ever turns when he has any other option.
Originally posted by TinyTim: What would Freud say about me if my answer to your question was that I don't have my fav and that I really like to fly them all and that there's never enough of them and that I'd sometimes even like to fly two at the time if possible?
But don't forget to bring the bird back home safely after your breathtaking flight to heaven.
Originally posted by TinyTim: What would Freud say about me if my answer to your question was that I don't have my fav and that I really like to fly them all and that there's never enough of them and that I'd sometimes even like to fly two at the time if possible?
Hehe, same here. I don't think I could reduce myself to a list of my 10 fav planes, let alone name 1.
The design and innovation of that airplane from top to bottom just amazing. It's like if BMW or Porsche hand-built a fighter. I know of no other aircraft that upon introduction to service, was so close to perfect, needing so few changes.
And yet that same basic airframe was so adaptable and versatile...amazing.
Regards, FW190fan
"We are now in a position of inferiority. There is no doubt in my mind, or in the mind of my fighter pilots that the FW190 is the best fighter in the world today."
The Corsair, especially the late versions. From warbirds the Fw-190 and P-38 come second. All three were excellent multirole aircraft but for me usually the naval aircraft wins.
Also I have great sympathy for the Bf-109, due to it's long service life, list of user and production run, despite this designs many weaknesses.
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"Actually everybody talks about aerial combat. I maintain that hitting ground targets, and especially ships is more dangerous than aerial combat." - Joe Foss
In IL-2, my fave aircraft swings from the FW-190 to the B-25. In Lock On, see my sig In RL (flyable by me) Cessna 172
Long as I remember The rain been comin' down. Clouds of myst'ry pourin' Confusion on the ground. Good men through the ages, Tryin' to find the sun; And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who'll stop the rain.
cant get enough of it...
