Ten Aircraft of Your Choice In 1946

WP840-that MiG 3 is beautiful. Never realised what a good-looking aeroplane that was.

Jay

Personally, glad to see a few of the Hawker family on a lot of lists. For family reasons i must concur with whoever said “Typhoon.”

For family reasons:

Hawker Tempest II
Two Hawker Typhoon (so now I could have one flyer, one static)
RAF Curtiss Tomahawk (nice one Colin! My grandfather flew these on gunnery training (iirc) before joining the squadrons with Typhoons, and had quite a soft spot for them-surprised it got a mention)
Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley
Hawker Hart Trainer

And some for me:

Junkers Ju88
DeHavilland Mosquito
Junkers Ju52
Focke-Wulf Fw190, ideally a 2 seater like the one at Hendon

My personal choices. if we could all have our ten, I’d approach those with Typhoons, and tour europe as a three-ship.

Dont often post on the forums but these “we can dream…” threads I like.

My Top Ten of 1946

1. North American Mustang Mk.I – ex-RAF
2. North American Mustang Mk.IA – ex-RAF
3. North American Mustang Mk.II – ex-RAF
4. North Amercian Mustang Mk.III – ex-RAF
5. North American Mustang Mk.IV – ex-RAF
6. Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk Mk.I – ex-RAF
7. Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIVE – ex-RAF
8. Hawker Typhoon FR.1b – ex-RAF
9. North American Harvard
10. North American Yale

Last two to keep the hand in and save the available flying hours on the first 8.

Colin Ford
Canberra
Australia

No.268 Squadron Royal Air Force
1940-1946
Historian by Appointment
(by the surviving Squadron members)

Very difficult to choose past number 1:

1. Spitfire Mk IX
2. Hurricane Mk I
3. Mosquito FB
4. Fw 190A
5. Bf 109E
6. Zero
7. P-51B/C
8. Lancaster
9. B-17G
10. Gloster Gladiator – with a 3 blade prop!

Mike

1 westland whirlwind
2 ki46-2 dinah
3 ki84 frank
4 ca15
5 mb5
6 a7m reppu
7 ca11 woomera
8 n1k2 george
9 ki102 randy
10 ki45

1/Any mossie
2/P-51 with bubble canopy
3/Sunderland
4/A-26
5/P-51D
6/B-17 costal command
7/Boeing 314 in BOAC war scheme
8/Halifax
9/B-29
10/another mossie

Can I have two hangars? First in the pretty one by the lake:

1. Short C-Class Empire boat ‘Cordelia’ (was briefly AX660)
2. Short Sunderland IV
3. Supermarine Walrus
4. Saunders Roe Shrimp (1/2 scale for the A38)
5. Short Singapore

And in the other near a land runway :
6. De Havilland Mosquito
7. Hawker Typhoon
8. Bristol Beaufighter
9. Short Stirling
10. Westland Lysander

and yes, I know I have an obsession 🙂

i would have to go for.

1, Bristol Beaufighter
2, Hawker Tempest
3, Short Stirling
4, Me-110
5, Ju-87
6, Me-163 !!!!!!!.
7, Short Sunderland
8, Handley Page Hampdon
9, Ilyushin Il-4
10, Mitsubishi G4M “Betty”

these are just some of the WW2 types i would love to see flying, the likes of the AW Whitley, Westland Whirlwind, FW-190, Ju-88, He-111, Tu-2, P-61 would rate quite high as well..

My favourites:

1: F4U Corsair (all versions)
2: Goodyear F2G Corsair
3: Supermarine Spitfire MK9
4: P-51D Mustang
5: Yak-3/9
6: Avro Shackleton
7: Sea Fury
8: Polikarpov I-16
9: B-25J Mitchell
10: T6 Texan

My top 10 could only be…

1) Hurricane
2) B-17
3) Me-262
4) Tempest
5) Lancaster
6) He 111
7) Mosquito
8) Blenheim
9) MiG 3
10) Meteor

And pictures as if proof were needed! :rolleyes:

Westland Whirlwind
Bristol Brigand
Spitfire VII or XII
Brewster Buffalo
Bristol Beaufort
FW TA 152
Tempest V
Westland Welkin
LaGG-5
Il-2
😎

Why not! It isn’t wrong to dream. In random order:

1. Mitsubishi A6M Zero
2. Hawker Typhoon
3. DH Mosquito
4. FW190 Dora
5. Gloster Gladiator
6. Spitfire MKIX
7. Me 410
8. Me109F
9. Ju87 Stuka
10. P38 Lightning

Cheers,
Stieglitz

1) P-80
2) P-51
3) B-29
4) F 4 Corsair
5) Spitfire
6) P-61 Black Widow
7) P-38
8) P-47
9) B-17
10) Me-262

This isn’t as easy as it first appears, is it? I’d go for-

Miles Master 1
Vickers Wellesley
Fairey Battle
Me163 Komet (assuming it could somehow be made safe to fly)
DH Sea Hornet
Short Stirling
HP Halifax
Supermarine Stranraer
HP42 (OK, essentially a civil type, but also impressed into the RAF)
HP Hampden

Ok here is my top ten aircraft from WW2. Apart from the Spitfires at the top pof the list the rest follow in no particlular order. That depends on the mood im in.

1/ Supermarine Spitfire IX
2/ Supermarine Spitfire PRXIX
3/ DH Mosquito B.35/PR XVI
4/ Avro Lancaster
5/ Grumman F7F Tigercat (thinks its just allowable????)
6/ Hawker Hurricane IIc
7/ Gloster Meteor
8/ Lockheed P-38 Lightning
9/ Boeing B-17F/G Flying Fortress
10/ North American B-25 Mitchell

1946 choice of favorite aircraft

In no particular order of preference… but entirely patriotic!

1/ Hawker Fury prototype with griffon engine.
2/ Martin Baker MB.5
3/ DH Hornet F.Mk.1
4/ Hawker Tempest F.Mk.6
5/ DH Vampire F.Mk.1
6/ Supermarine Spiteful
7/ DH Mosquito FB.Mk.6
8/ Blackburn Firebrand
9/ Supermarine Seafire F.Mk.47
10/ Supermarine Spitfire F.Mk.24

….what an airshow this would make!

Hmmm this made me think:
1. A26 Mustang
2. Me410
3. Natter (well someone had to)
4. Me163
5. Stuka
5. IL2 Strumovic
6. Fw190
7. That big Italian 3 engined bomber
8. P-38 Lightning
9. Mig 1
10. Mossie
You did say absoloutly anything. And if we where allowed things that where not actualy finished my to 2 would e
1. Bv215 (you would have to build it first)
2. Fw226

Nice thread!
1. Spitfire Prototype
2. Hurricane Prototype
3. Hampden
4. My Grandad’s 210 Sqn M for Monkey Catalina
5. Whitley
6. Martin Baker MB5
7. Miles Master
8. Do17
9. Prototype Wellington (sorry crashed v early)
10. Blackburn Botha….

Ten Aircraft of your choice in 1946

DeHavilland DH 103 Hornet
Heinkel HE-100
Hawker Typhoon MKIB ‘Car Door’ canopy
DeHavilland DH 100 Vampire I (or then ‘Spider Crab?’)
Martin Baker MB-5
Supermarine Spitfire IXc
Yakovlev Yak-3
Nakajima A6M2-N Rufe
Lockheed P-38F Lightning
He 219 Uhu

I suppose in hindsight, this list reflects more one of historical preservation terms. Also what I think would have been very interesting to fly and compare their performance.

Top of my list (any list!) is the superb DH ‘Hornet’. The Hornet was one of those drop dead beautiful aircraft with near perfect performance. Gone, never to be seen again. Sigh!

Woodie