Admiral Beez
Banned
From a modern POV, I've often thought the Piaggio P180 is a cool looking pusher prop.
This is a regular fruit salad. It contains not only apples to oranges orange comparison but also cherry-picking. I really don’t feel as if it’s worth going into at length, but here are some quick comments on just one of the comparisons.
In comparing the Me410a with the Mosquito F Mk II, the Me 410a had more horsepower and was about 18-20 hp faster. The Mosquito carried 4 cannon and 4 machine guns but couldn't carry bombs. The Me 410a had two 20mm cannon, two 7.92 mm guns firing forward, and two rearward 13.2mmg guns in turrets. The later FB MK VI Mosquito had more horsepower and depending on the sources was either the same speed as the F MK II or the same speed as the Me410.
In comparing, the Do335 and Me410, you’re comparing a 1944-45 single-seat experimental aircraft a 1938 two seat design that was by 1942 was debugged and combat-proven machine.
One single seat prototype Do-335, with DB 603e engines and using MW50 flew 474 mph—and without the MW boost, it did 424-426 mph, iirc. The Me410s had the 603a and no MW50 boost did around 388.
So this prototype Do335 is around 36-38 mph faster than Me410. It would appear that most prototype Do335s carried no armament whatsoever, let alone the motor-cannon of which you’re so fond. I believe V-13 and V-14 carried weapons, but I don't know their speed. A couple of two seater Do335s were built, and carried antennas but weren't fitted with radar, or weapons I know of, and I don't know their speed or if they even flew. The Do335 had no rearward firing weapons and no capability of carrying rearward firing weapons. The Me-410 did carry these in a clunky system—but that’s what LW had required.
I do know that the Me-410 had excellent visibility from the cockpit and the Do-335 did not.
A more reasonable comparison would be between a single seat, stripped version of the Me410 and a Do335 that was designed in 1938. Of course, this can't be done.
I could go on, but I feel that there isn’t really a point in doing so.
I’m not saying that Bf 110, Me210/410 were great.
I’m just saying is the comparisons you make aren’t fair comparisons and while I love push-pull aircraft, I really don’t think that the trade-off in the design make it worthwhile layout.