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Total Members Voted: 8

[a worthless person]

I am a big fan of piston-engined propeller planes from the WW1, Interwar, and WW2 periods!


I don't consider myself an expert, but I will post daily (or more, or less  ) reviews and spotlights on the various planes used in this period! I might even spotlight newer planes that catch my interest!

Besides that, feel free to talk about planes of all kinds, with myself and others! (note: only from 1949 and earlier)

[MACHINE]

My favorite thread is back! I still really don't know anything about warplanes but I always enjoyed your posts on this stuff.

[Ming]

Best thread.

Please teach us history once again, sensei!

[Momona]

UK UK UK

[Dirk Gently]

Why are Nogun Island planes so pretty?

[a worthless person]

Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter

The Bristol Beaufighter is a sterling example of a perfectly well-rounded "Heavy Fighter"! 

The Beaufighter started it's life as the Bristol Company's earlier Beaufort Torpedo Bomber. The wings, control surfaces, and landing gear was the same, but the rest had some awesome changes! Replacing the bomb bay was a rack of 4 forward firing 20mm cannons! It's wings also held a whole 6 7.7mm machine guns~ This meant that the Beaufighter was one of the heaviest armed fighters in the whole of WW2! What a terrible and almost sexual fury! 

It served as a Night Fighter, a fighter bomber, and eventually even replaced the Beaufort as a Torpedo Bomber! It has that stubby, bulldog-like appearance because it had to mount a more powerful engine than it's predecessor, which threw it's center of gravity forward. Since that is a no-no for aerodynamics, the front of the plane was shortened because it didn't need a bomber sight, which explains why it's engines go more forward than it's cockpit! 

Such a manly, burly plane is the kind of rough-edged, but reliable piece of machinery you'd expect from the United Kingdom!   

I love you, Beaufighter!!

 

[MACHINE]

The stubby front almost makes it look like a toy or something. A very deadly toy.

[Royalkitten]

i like these neat facts... 

[a worthless person]

I did not feel well yesterday, and I haven't slept yet. I'll post a plane highlight later today, but until then have a nice picture.

[Royalkitten]

I need my plane facts I hope worthless feels better eventually. 

[bubblecat]

hasn't been online in 3 days, worthless is dead

another one down

[Ming]

Please come back Worthy 

[Hiro]

poor worthless

[a worthless person]

Mitsubishi A6M Zero

The A6M Zero, also called Zeke, or Reisen, is the workhorse of the Japanese Air-war in ww2, the stereotypical Japanese fighter. It's history is quite interesting, and it's probably my favorite plane.

The Zero had an operational history of 1940-1945, and until around 1942, it was nearly unstoppable, with a k-d ratio of 12-1 in dogfights with American planes. It's armament, 2x7.7mm guns and 2x20mm cannons, mixed with it's extremely light, maneuverable, and sexual form, let it beat the shit out of the slower American Navy fighters they had at the time. I imagine the Zero as a cute shota bully in a doujin or something. 

The design was nearly perfect. In the words of allied opinion at the time:  It was "built like a fine watch"; the Zero was constructed with flush rivets, and even the guns were flush with the wings. The instrument panel was a "marvel of simplicity ... with no superfluities to distract [the pilot]." What most impressed the experts was that the Zero's fuselage and wings were constructed in one piece, unlike the American method that built them separately and joined the two parts together.  "I don’t think I have ever flown a fighter that could match the rate of turn of the Zero. The Zero had ruled the roost totally and was the finest fighter in the world until mid-1943." 

The Zero is a masterpiece, dangerous and totally sexy. Eventually, it's domination waned when America made more manueverable planes, and it's light armor made it easy to damage, but it still maintained it's amazing speed and manueverability up to the end of the war. I am in love with the Zero. Real love.   



I love you, Zero!!

[Royalkitten]

HE RISES TO NEW HEIGHTS LIKE THE PLANES HE SO LOVES!!