If a country can build whatever fighter they want, what would be the ideal medium altitude fighter plane during WW2?
If a country can build whatever fighter they want, what would be the ideal medium altitude fighter plane during WW2?
Just medium altitude? P-63 Kingcobra, with that nose cannon it can just remove anything that it gets a bead on.If a country can build whatever fighter they want, what would be the ideal medium altitude fighter plane during WW2?
If you say Bf109 or spitfire with more fuel, he100D model would do the trick as is.Welcome, obviously this beast would go well in WW2!
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Actually in 1940 either the Bf109 or Spitfire with a bit more fuel would do the trick, later in the war the Hawker Tempest is quite the beast.
If a country can build whatever fighter they want, what would be the ideal medium altitude fighter plane during WW2?
What about ME-262?Making the best medium-altitude propeller-driven planes. No jets!
I think 1943...What year - 1939, 1942, 1945? What would be the 'medium altitude' in exact terms?
Eg. The plane has a British frame, German engine, American weaponary...
I think 1943...
maybe a Yak-9 with griffon engine and armed with nose-Hispanos and four 50. cal mgs???
Which was Actual WW2 jet aircraft.What about ME-262?
What about double-engine, heavy-fighters like the Mosquito?
I like to would have a P-38 air frame with Griffon engines and 2 Hispanos and 2 .50 cal mgs located in the nose...
I prefer a heavy fighter due to more speed, range and armaments....
okay.The P-38 have had plenty of it's problems that were unrelated to the engine choice. Low Mach number due to several factors (= can't dive as well as the other fighters of the day), high drag, it was much bigger than most of 1-engined fighters powered with V12 engines (= easier to spot and hit), blind spots due to being 2-engined and twin boom, low rate of roll before the boosted ailerons were fitted, awkward layout of controls and gauges, cockpit heating and just one generator before 1944 etc.
Already by 1942, it was feasible to combine speed, range and armament on just one engine, especially for the UK and USA, with benefits to the rate of roll, as small the size as possible thus no problems of offering the enemy the chance to act & fire 1st, no problems with blind spots, no need to train fighter pilots for a twin. All along with obvoius lower cost to buy and operate.