Hello everyone, from Down Under in sunny Australia!
I’m going to reignite the age-old question: just what is the best fighter of WWII? I’m just wanting to collate different ideas, because I am curious as to what people think on the issue. As for me, I am always going to be loyal to the Spitfire, in particular the Mks. VIII and XIV. I know of many aviation enthusiasts down here who disagree with me, and think that the Mustang was far superior, but I think I agree with Stewart Wilson in his very good book “Spitfire, Mustang and Kittyhawk in Australian Service”, which states that the Mustang and the Spitfire are very similar machines, and thus are very difficult to compare. In addition, I believe the Supermarine aircraft, as an interceptor, was unmatched, and it is for the reason that the interceptors staved off the Luftwaffe that the P-51 ever got the chance to fly in European skies at all, for without the victory of the Battle of Britain by the Hurricane, supported by the Spitfire, there wouldn’t have been any offensive bases for the USAAF and their Mustangs.
Anyway, over to you…is it the Spitfire, the P-51, Bf-109, or maybe something completely different? Hear from you soon…

Being as fair as possible I’d have to make a top ten list and say they are not in any strict order.

Mustang
Spitfire
109
190
Hellcat
Tempest
Yak3
Lightning
Corsair
Zero

Some people will take some out and some people will place them in some sort of order but I think it would be fair to say that all of the above belong in the top 10. I would put the Spit at number 1 purely because it is my favourite but not because I think it was any better than the rest. In some ways it was in others it was lacking a little.

I guess you should see a Doctor my dear !!! :rolleyes:

About Portuguese food: well I had both food in England and Portugal , and guess what’s my favorite one?

So you’r theory is : France wants to screw up EU and England wants to improve it? Thanks for the good laugh 😮
About the rest of your prose it’s just pathetic …

Hold on Hand he didn’t mention Britain its only polite that you don’t either.

Dis. Are you just being an idiot again? What did the Portugese do to anger you and inccur your wrath? From your description of the country it appears that you are living up to the usual US Imperial attitude towards other countries based purely on cultural stereotypes. None of which are remotely true to real life. Beleive me it doesn’t make you seem clever it makes you look like a prat.

Yup. 242 (Canadian) Sqn RAF. I’m not Canadian though. 🙂

Thanks for the info Phil. Hope they do make a come back. Would love to see a decent combat flight sim on the F-35.

At least they took Rage with them. I tell you what mate it was a crying shame I loved EF2000 it was the very first flight sim I ever bought and ran it on a 486. I reckon the lads who were DID must still be knocking around the industry. Maybe they could re-do EF2000 except without Rage dragging them down. You never know. What sim do you fly nowadays?

Whether England were cheated or not makes no difference – the authorities won’t restage the whole match and England still lost, whatever.
Going around feeling that the referee was incompetant might make you feel better now (without facing up to the situation) but will just harbour ill feeling against referees in general. It is well known amongst football fans that the referee always favours the opposition anyway – whichever side you play on.
99.9% of the whiners here have nothing concrete to moan about except that England lost. Give it a rest: it is over for another year – Nermal

Does that answer my question?

Of course I do have the Dragon on my bike. I bet that raises an eybrow or two in Birmingham he he.

I’m not saying that Barnowl I am saying that I don’t like being tarred with this brush and they ‘might’ be right about the ref. Just because somebody brings up the possibility doesn’t make it inplausible. I agree with you that Portugal deserved to win and I agree that all this crap that the so called fans do is really beginning to **** me off. I mean surrounding a pub in Thetford because it was full of Portugal fans!!!!!!!!!!!! What was that all about? ******s the lot of them, a shameful bunch of inbreeds who need a good long prison sentence and a damn good kicking. See how they like it. But the ref was crap, he disallowed a perfectly good goal and I don’t want to be accociated with the ****s who cause trouble. Well done Portugal 99.9% of English arn’t they way these pricks make us look and Britain certainly isn’t like that.