Google Image Result for http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/44114190_9b6d19982c.jpg?v=0 This is part of a series of shots showing Royal Navy Carrier operations with the British Pacific fleet at the close of WW2 - Firefly fighter-bombers operated by 812 Squadron on HMS Vengeance.
Not really a fighter but at one time the mainstay of the Fleet Air Arm, the Fairy Swordfish(Stringbag) carried out sterling work during the war
I've always liked this fighter. Too bad they had problems with the Peregrine engines. I've often wondered why they never planted a couple of Merlins in it. Stig, The Engines where not the only problem with thr Whirlwind, If I remember right it was built to a requirement for an high altitude fighter (which need didnt actually happen but seemed to come around about every 3 years) but the wing section was completly wrong. It high thickness to Chord ratio meant for a disapointing high altitude performance. There seemed to be a real backlash in the thirties to the thin wings which resulted in the Hurricane and others. High altitude performance was sorted out untill the RR got their two stage supercharger up and running. Withthe P51 and Spitfire's very low Thickness to Chord did you get some trully impressive altitude performance. Kev
A rather unusual P-51 from thomasnet.com http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/The%20British%20pilot%20of%20a%20vintage%20WWII%20U.S.%20fighter%20P51%20Mustang%20carried%20on%20another%20250%20miles%20to%20his%20destination%20without%20reporting%20the%20loss%20of%20the%20plane's%20glass%20cockpit%20cover%20that%20was%20lost%20mid%20flight.jpg Genuine or a photoshop? Cheers Andy
Andy I know the P-51 with ramjets, but not with these configuration. These aircraft was created after WWII North American P-51D with Ramjets. SN 44-63528 with two XRJ-30-MA Ramjets in May 1948 at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio Source: Wiki Commons
Again for Adriano the Breda 65 fighter/ground attack aircraft used in the early part of WW2 especially against the British in the Desert campaign... A good picture IMO...
An Brazilian P-47D arrives in Pisa, Italy - after collide with a funnel and lost 4ft 3in of their right wing http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=57&pictureid=514
A very nice picture Peter. It is great to see both a Hurricane and a Spitfire in the same shot - and in colour. If we are talking colour - how about this glorious composition of plane and sky? Cally, do you know the name of the bloke that painted the Spit?
I thought it might be this bloke, the sky on his Hampden painting looks very similar? Aviation art and illustration of Paul Couper
Some more of my favourite fighter pictures - this time of the amazing Hurricane. The first two pictures show her as I think the MK IID fully equipped with twin 40mm Vickers Cannon ideal as a tank-buster. Of course the Hurricane was always a far better gun-platform than the Spitfire... Last picture shows the versatile Hurricane this time as a fighter-bomber...
