What was the best looking fighter and bomber of WW2?

[yerwot?]

Saw the Vulcan at Barton, couple of lowlevel passes, and then tipped over on it's wing-tip and powered into a vertical climb....was like being in the middle of a thunderstorm, i've been to many an air show but that was unforgettable, it would never win a beauty contest though. I have always loved the silhouette of the Mosquito from below, so aggressive and it lived up to it, sadly one crashed at Barton, the inquest finding the engines had suffered fuel starvation due to carburettor icing, a known problem that had a fix available but not fitted...

 

[Gelsons Dad]

I'm very surprised @Gelsons Dad has yet to post here.

I'm not on bluemoon 24hrs a day!

anyway now I'm here.

Dad flew Mosquito so I'm biased.
It isn't the BV141 for sure:

I like the P51

 

[purplenose]

I'm not on bluemoon 24hrs a day!

anyway now I'm here.

Dad flew Mosquito so I'm biased.
It isn't the BV141 for sure:

I like the P51

I take it you know there is a group getting one in the air in the UK....The peoples Mosquito. one of our Vulcan pilots Bill Ramsey is invoved.

 

[dickie davies]

I like the P51

It was nothing without the RR Merlin engine though

 

[Gelsons Dad]

It was nothing without the RR Merlin engine though

I think only the A's didn't have Merlins. The weren't built by RR though they were built in the states under licence. Don't remember by whom. Probably Alison or Packard. I would have know if you asked me 40 years ago. Probably could have quoted the serial numbers back then.

 

[purplenose]

if we are having aircraft that hardly ever flew I give you the Horten Ho 229.

Looks a bit like a Vulcan. As I am sure you know there is a good reason for that, At the end of the war the plans were nicked and fell upon Roy Chadwicks desk. That is how 1952 just 12 years after the first flight of the Lancaster the Vulcan made its maiden flight from Woodford one Saturday morning in August. My Dad saw it.

Oh and some under carriage doors fell off during climb out and were never found.

Back in 1952 things were different and Roly Falke the test pilot conducting that flight called into the Thieves neck for a couple of pints before conducting the maiden flight alone. Any nerves he had about flying it soon disappeared however as he demonstrated the aircrafts agility soon afterward by double barrel rolling it at the Farnborough air show, I have no idea whether Roly had consumed a sherbert prior to that one but i think it was highly likely.

 

[mikemcfc]

if we are having aircraft that hardly ever flew I give you the Horten Ho 229.

The Canadian built Avro Arrow fits here then. Most here would more than likely know more about it than myself but here's a brief.
A beautiful Interceptor built in 1958 that was about the fastest jet at the time with speeds achieving mach II. Cancelled during the trials stage for expense. Controversy exists about the official reason for conspiratorial ones. Who knows? Aircraft, parts and blueprints were all destroyed. The Americans did benefit.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Then there was our very own TSR-2

 

[denislawsbackheel]

And the Yanks had the Valkyrie

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Then there was our very own TSR-2

Don't get me started!

But divide it in two and wait 20 odd years and you get Jag and Tornado. Neither of which match the performance potential of the TSR2.