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Witches Broomstick because 1932 onwards counts.
love the Ki-61, not the first plane that comes to mind when you consider that the IJA/IJN almost exclusively used radial layouts
>>62807463Tidy that.
the xf12 rainbow was a pretty cool plane
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>>62807463The only other inline-engine Japanese combat aircraft to see service, the D4Y Judy dive bomber. It and the Ki-61 would both get radial-engine variants with superior performance because Japan couldn't build their DB 601 copy worth shit.
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>>62815137D4Y is easily the best carrier borne dive bomber that saw large scale service in WW2, it was shafted by the terrible situation it was thrown in though. Still it had a few great successes.
PZL.46 Sum (Polish for Sheatfish), it was only a prototype before the war, but it was intended to the Karas and PZL.43 which was quickly obsolete upon its entry into service. Neither of the two prototypes survive, though one of them was captured by the USSR for testing purposes.By the way
>>62817232By the way, I am back from my busy weekend, the RC I-153's fuselage is almost done (I need to do some more filling because I had a minor screw up, cut out the battery hatch and paint the aircraft), I will post pictures when it is finished, if people are interested.
>>62816059>bestdive bomber mission-specific role was obsolete by end of 1943.so was torpedo bomberCarriers still needed 'strike aircraft' and many of these types were still used as such (e.g. SB2C, TBF/TBM) for up to a decade post-war, but the dedicated dive bomber was a relicD4Y was a good carrier based bomber for its eraIJN designations called all these B5N, B6N, B7A>carrier based attack bomber
>>62816059how does it compare to the SBD Dauntless?>>62818681>dive bomber mission-specific role was obsolete by end of 1943multi-role carrier aircraft (Corsair) weren't quite mature yet
Reminder that Italy's best branch of service was their Airforce. Many allied aces even said they thought Italian fighters were some of, if not the best in the war, and that there just wasn't enough of them.
>>62826087>if not the best in the warlol no
>>62826094Cope and seethe
>>62806344this lil' dude was amazing in the last Godzilla movie.
>>62826097why should I?it's just a nice thing someone said to make pastas feel better
>>62826086>multi-role carrier aircraft (Corsair)the F6F Hellcat was just as 'multi role' as F4U was, and reached carrier service earlier due to the F4U's delay in qualification.(in parenthetically noting the F4U as an example of the 'multi role' phenomenon, anon, you might ? have been thinking of the Corsair's relatively longer postwar service record during which it was not only exported to multiple other nations but also modified into several subvariants after the F4U-4 and later, including cannon-armed and dedicated night fighter/ground attack.) F6F-3s along with F4U-2s (F4U-1 conversions, thirty-four examples total) were some of the earliest USN/USMC single-seat night fighters. The F6F could carry same external bomb-rocket payload for air to ground missionsin1944-45 Pacific the F6F-5 became the USN's predominant carrier based 'air superiority' (<--day) and single-seat night fighter.
>>62826106by multi-role, I meant that the Corsair could carry a useful antiship payload of torpedoes, bombs or rocketsI'm not sure how the F6F's payload compares
>>62826121>F4U Corsair>carry a torpedo??the F4U Corsair never carried torpedos.Torpedo bombers (such as the TBF/TBM) did.also after World War II----as was mentioned ^^above in the dive bomber post---these specific roles were eliminated. Any remaining TBFs in U.S. Navy inventory were re-purposed to general attack role, and after WWII into the cold war any air-lauched torpedos or aircraft carrying them were anti-submarine.As established in my post (You) replied to the F6F and F4U were not only each powered by the R-2800 radial engine but had identical fighter-bomber and "milti role" mission capabilities in World War II.(it's merely that the Hellcat in 1943-44 became the USN's primary air-to-air mission *carrier* fighter, produced in greater numbers than the F4U during that war. In WWII USN service Corsairs operated half the time from land bases. It's how the the two fighters were mission-deployed overall by the USN during WWII; they were each, in any particular role, equally capable. But the F6F performed and handled better, earlier, on aircraft carrier decks)
Tirpitz raid.
>>62828978My mistake, I thought Lt Robert H Gray carried a torpedo when he won his VC and lost his lifeBut it was two 500lb bombsStill a decent payload
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It would have been cool if this beauty had entered service.
>>62816051>Fairchild F611 Brigand
>>62826087IIRC they were some of the best airframes available to the axis but much like the late war japanese were hampered by an absence of quality engines.
>>62807463>Ki-61>DB 601 copy was shitIt was actually very well built. Liquid cooled engines worked perfectly fine in the European theater. But in the hot and humid Pacific theater, they had issues keeping them cooled. A lot of the breakdowns were from overheating issues.As the war progressed, they started running short on qualified mechanics and spares getting to the airfields where the aircraft were stationed.It didn't help that the plant that produced the engines got bombed.For the reasons above, the Japanese engineers converted the aircraft to use a radial engine.
>>62832875Forgot to include the pic of the Ki-61-II.Apparently, they also produced a bubble canopy version towards the end of the war.
>>62814008Similar aircraft was the Grumman J2F Duck.Inter-war designs are some of the coolest imo.I saw one of these at an airshow when I was a kid and thought it was the coolest plane there.
One of my favorite piston engine fighters was the Hawker Sea Fury.Designed during WW2, it didn't enter service until 1947.It was also the first piston engined aircraft to shoot down a jet fighter (Chinese MiG-15 during Korean war).
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>>62832293Since you're a man of culture, have a Hughes P21-J Devastator.
>>62834755Sea Furies, probably Peak Superprop.
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luv' me saabsimple as
>>62837623That's an ass-ender
This kinda counts, started before and finished when the Germans had left.Twin engines one for each of the contra props.
>>62842099>he doesn't know
>>62832875The whole point of liquid cooled engines was improved engine cooling vs their aircooled counterparts, which despite being designed with ever more cooling fins always ran at higher temperatures. I suspect the actual problem was that the japanese weren't receiving updates from germany fast enough (i.e improved engines, higher pressure radiators, meredith effect ducting, etc) compared to their own inhouse aircooled development so they stopped bothering with them.They were still trying to make steam cooling work in 1943 for the tandem twin engined ki-64 prototype.https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/10/20/kawasaki-ki-64-experimental-fighter/
