DBWI: Best Aircraft of the Second Great War.

Well Disscus.

Best Fighter

Best Fighter Bomber

Best Heavy Fighter

Best Light Bomber

Best Medium Bomber

Best Heavy Bomber

Best Carrier Fighter

Best Carrier Bomber

Best Transport

Best Flying Boat

ETC
 
Fighter

Designed and almost deployed: Bearcat.

Actually in combat: Corsair.

Fast, reasonably nimble, took a serious butt kicking and kept on kicking. Air-to-air, air-to-ground, whatever you need. Still in service with jets in '52 in Korea, used in third world for another 20 years.

Ground attack design: Skyraider.

Ground attack, deployed: Corsair again.
 
OOC: I really don't know what the heck the POD is supposed to be here. If I had, in a background, a J. Edgar Hoover run US police state with the explanation that he took over after FDR was assassinated and Garner failed to improve things leading to Communist and Fascist revolutionaries (or possibly with some connection to the "Business Plot"), would that be too ASB?
 
The best carriers fighters were undoubtedly the Fairchild Vandal and Visigoth which were the primary interceptors carried by the Peacekeeper class rigid airship carriers. Both models first saw extensive service during the League of Nations action against Italian forces in Ethiopia that brought about the collapse of the Mussolini governent in Italy.
 
The best carriers fighters were undoubtedly the Fairchild Vandal and Visigoth which were the primary interceptors carried by the Peacekeeper class rigid airship carriers. Both models first saw extensive service during the League of Nations action against Italian forces in Ethiopia that brought about the collapse of the Mussolini governent in Italy.

Nonsense! The Blackburn Scourge and Scourer used on the RNAS semi-rigid dirigibles were arguably the finest machines in their respective classes.
 
The best fighter was udoubtly the CAudron 413 and the best CAS aircraft the Voisin 248.

However, as they don't have catchy names, they are usually overlooked by the fans.
 
OOC: Here's one. Tsar Alexei escaped to defeat the bolsheviks.

Basically, The Second Great War is between Tsarist Russia and Nazi Germany.
 
Best Fighter

The Ultra Spitfire, of course. Took jet technology and we got one the longest ranges of the war, amazing speed, and it could outfly almost anything. Only real disadvantage was it's impracticality as a bombing vehicle.

Best Fighter Bomber

I'd go with the Tupolev TBV-34, myself. Brittle, but it sure was packing.

Best Heavy Fighter

Me-360. Seriously, you could call overkill with this one. Ten machineguns, rearward gatling cannon...amazing it could get off the ground.

Best Light Bomber

B-31. Very good tactically, though the range left something to be desired.

Best Medium Bomber

Winchester. Good thing about it was that with those defences and armor, it barely needed a fighter escort at times.

Best Heavy Bomber

The Horten/Golgotha H8766. I mean, look at the damage one of these monsters caused to New York.
 
The best carriers fighters were undoubtedly the Fairchild Vandal and Visigoth which were the primary interceptors carried by the Peacekeeper class rigid airship carriers. Both models first saw extensive service during the League of Nations action against Italian forces in Ethiopia that brought about the collapse of the Mussolini governent in Italy.

I would agree. The British planes and their semi-rigid carriers were quite overrated.

But we really shouldn't forget the Aeros Mexicanos AM-21 Coyotl. True, it was based on a French design and manufactured in the Mexican Empire, but the Coyotl was both faster and better armed than the Visigoth/Vandal twins. If not for prejudice in the Navy Department, the Coyotl could have been the best carrier fighter of the war. As it was, it's shipboard derivative served with distinction in the Mexican navy.
 
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