Which post-war superprop was the best?
>>65072245The Almighty Cessna 208 Super Caravan
>>65072294Sorry I meant Grand Caravan.
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>>65072245in terms of pure sex, retardation, and lack of funding, the frogs always take the win
>>65072245My beloved.
>>65072431nah
>>65072302By service history, it's hard to argue for anything other than the A-1
>>65072302>>65072648by 'what if the XT40 hadn't been such an unmitigated 1st-gen turboprop catastrophe' it's this
>>65072622Still wild to me that P-51s and corsairs kept getting work into Korea but the US still trashed them by the hundreds of thousands instead of selling them off. Could have given every friendly third world country fleets of hundreds of planes.
>>65072245yeah, gonna go with Sea Fury too>>65073101>Could have given every friendly third world country fleets of hundreds of planes3rd world countries can't afford to operate "hundreds" of them, and very quickly wanted to switch to jetsthe RNZAF for example got a squadron or two of Mustangs, but these always competed with the Tempests, and before the decade was out they got Gloster Meteors and the jet age was due
>>65073101Mustangs and Corsairs were dogfighting against each other during the El Salvador-Honduras soccer war in the late 60s.
She counts
Why not a glass-bottom cockpit?
>>65073240>3rd world countries can't afford to operate "hundreds" of them, and very quickly wanted to switch to jetsit really depends on what for. If you're a really poor but really big country you need a lot of coverage for relatively low intensity tasks, say, Algeria, one of the biggest countries on earth, is mostly empty but still has some low to mid intensity warfare to prepare for on their border with Morocco or Chad, so bigger fleets of less capable planes to just chuck bombs on a tactical capacity makes more sense than big bombers or faster jets.the real reason a lot of those planes were scrapped is because the airframes weren't actually built to last and intensive use during the war wore a lot of them completely out.
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>>65073260yeah, but which countries had that small set of requirements?>Algeriagot Mig-15s when they first set up, post-independence of course>Brazilgot Meteors by 1952, operating mainly P-47s before then iinm>Egyptgot Meteors before the decade was out, and then Mig-15s by 1955of course, it might be said that prop fighters only had a lifespan of about 5 years at most, IINM
>>65073265Brazil and Argentina kept props into the 70s too that i know of
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>>65073245she's a freak
>>65073270cute but they made it into a jet (Supermarine Attacker)
>>65073265I think there was a real factor of not having these 'old and dated' prop planes, but getting the new jet hotness and being at the cutting edge of technology.
>>65073304yesand cost underpins everythingsmall countries couldn't afford to operate "hundreds" of prop fighters, and bigger countries like Brazil and Egypt were eyeing jets and didn't want to shell out for propsespecially since even the earliest jets showed massive advantages over propsa Tempest doesn't come close to touching a Meteor, for example
>>65073309Many Third World countries back then also had a real lack of pilots, on top of being unable to maintain such a force.And obviously there was the pollitical dimension.
>>65073270Now do the Do 335 thing and add a pusher engine.
>>65072428>post warNigga that's a pre-war design. Also Bugatti was an Italian.
>>65073327>real lack of pilotsyeah that goes in the "affordability" section as wellthose countries which do have the cash have always paid for their brightest to go to military academies in the West, and learn from the best there how to be pilotsif I were the Foreign Office, or SecState, I would tell them to fuck off, or charge them the price of a brand new fighter jet programme>oh you want to train your pilots on my F-5? sure. the cost will be [my projected cost for developing the F-18] but it seems few faggots past WW2 can properly nation-build nowadays
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>Hawker Sex FurySo named because it's fucking sexy.
>>65073705They look shitty in comparison to a properly proportioned fighter aircraft.
>>65073101Many of the friendly third world countries that got US military aid became not friendly, either through their own actions or the US changing its mindThis was a forseen thing and limiting the quality of the aid given was always high on the priority list, and air power more than anything was given out sparingly
>>65072302>>65073463Skyraiders were always my fave at airshows, but it needs a 4360
>>65075408i gotchu senpai
