Your favourite WWII plane?

MK9 Spitfire.

MK9 Spitfire.

Good choice (BTW I just noticed your username change!)
I’ve also have a soft spot for the Dakota, tho I dont see that as a war plane for some reason!

I’ve also have a soft spot for the Dakota, tho I dont see that as a war plane for some reason!

Tell that to david Lord V.C., amongst others.

Regards,

kev35

Tell that to david Lord V.C., amongst others.

Regards,

kev35

Oh I wouldnt dare, I love the plane and understand the huge part it played in(and after) the war!
My dad, who was in the army, once laughingly told me that the Dakota was the only plane that flapped its wings!

I’ve also have a soft spot for the Dakota, tho I dont see that as a war plane for some reason!

Not even dropping paratroopers over France during the Normandy landings? A Bridge Too Far?

(I’m watching Band of Brothers on DVD at the moment, and I can’t help but think of the Dak as a significant combat aircraft!)

My dad, who was in the army, once laughingly told me that the Dakota was the only plane that flapped its wings!

there was an old wartime joke that nobody ever worked out the wingspan of a Wellington as it flapped its wings too much to be able to measure it.

Not even dropping paratroopers over France during the Normandy landings? A Bridge Too Far?

(I’m watching Band of Brothers on DVD at the moment, and I can’t help but think of the Dak as a significant combat aircraft!)

Oh absolutely! i think i’m going from childhood memories, planes on the ceiling, and really, Airfix models were all about Spitfires, Hurricanes and 109s when i was a teenager-I never saw a Dak in an Airfix box, and kids are impressionable. I did have one civillian plane on my ceiling tho, a constellation airliner, in white!
I’d sure like a model Dak now, and even better, a flight in one(never been in a plane, yet!)

There’s something about the Sunderland that I’ve always had a soft spot for, maybe the clean lines (if you ignore the aerials) and being a 4 engined flying boat it’s a bit different from the usual RAF stuff.

And yes I did have one as an Airfix kit, but then I had a lot of planes so that doesn’t count for much.

Lancaster, Halifax and Wellington for me, but that’s purely because of the crews who flew in them and the all too many who died in them.

It’s the people that interest me more than the aircraft. A Lancaster is just a conglomeration of parts until you put the people in them. It’s the people that bring them to life. Rambling on now I know but you know what I mean.

Regards,

kev35

ME 163 Komet

I’m particularly fond of this one.

Or are we talking aircraft or aeroplanes?

Moggy

Ha ha,funny, I thought plane (or ‘plane) was short for aeroplane,or is it airplane?

A fitting quote from Reach for the Sky.

Never never call it a plane… it’s an aeroplane.

I’m particularly fond of this one.

Or are we talking aircraft or aeroplanes?

Moggy

For me it has to be the Spit… and to think it was developed throughout the war too.

For me it has to be the Avro Rota. one of the least known BoB aircraft.

Anyway, to answer your original question, it’d have to be a Spitfire Mk.I. The first “live” Spitfire I saw up close (as opposed to one sitting in a museum) was Mk.Ia AR213, when she was still at Booker in about 1993. She still had all her Battle of Britain film mods then (six-stub exhaust, internal bulletproof windscreen, four-blade propeller) but, to me, she was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.

Failing that, though, a low-back Spitfire XVI. The first Spit I ever saw was a Mk.XVI, and it’s still in the same museum some 25 years later….

Let me try to help out Larry66…

While I can’t share his opinion of the Dakota as a warbird, I can understand where he’s coming from.

My father flew B-17s in the war with the 15th AF.
As a boy I read all the books about Mustangs, Thunderbolts, Spitfires and of course, B-17s. Those were warbirds. Because of their rarity. I had never seen one in person, just in the old black and white photos of the books I got from the library. They were from a time long before I was born, when dad was young…and very skinny.

But a Dakota was alive and real. My dad regularly flew them…there was one outside his offce, the base “hack”. I could see it, touch it, hear it.
It wasn’t a piece of 20 year old history, it was real and current.
Yes, I knew that it served in the war, I’d read about D-Day and flying the Hump.
But the C-47 was something else.
It wasn’t an artifact, it was part of my life.

See what I mean?

Having said that, I’ll have to say…not out of silly nationalism but out of family pride, that the B-17 is my favorite plane of World War Two.
My father wasn’t a hero, but I’m proud of the part he played in defeating the Nazis. A boy from a small farm town in Wisconsin went to war in it…and survived. And it changed his life forever.

I was lucky enough to see a Mosquito fly at Biggin 30 odd years ago, whilst I love the usual BBMF aircraft, I don’t think the Mozzie has an equal.

Digger

Tell that to david Lord V.C., amongst others.

Regards,

kev35

Aye remember all those lost flying “over the hump”.
For me it would have to be one of five:
Bv138
Do335
Fw189
Bv141
Fiesler Fi156

Hawker Typhoon armed to the teeth with rockets, because I hate trains:diablo: