100 Most Significant Aircraft

alphawolf

Majalah Fine Scale Modeler ada buat survey ni tiga tahun lepas. Ni pilihan pembaca depa...kalau hangpa, masukkan apa?
(aircraft = kenderaan udara bersayap, samada kaku atau berputar)

- Wright Flyer
- Douglas DC-3 series
- Messerschmitt Me 262
- North American P-51 Mustang
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
- Lockheed Blackbird family
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- Boeing 747
- Bell X-1
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
- Rockwell Space Shuttle
- BAe/Aerospatiale Concorde
- BAe/McDD Harrier
- North American X-15
- Boeing 707 family
- Bell UH-1 Huey
- MiG-15
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress
- Grumman F-14 Tomcat
- North American F-86 Sabre
- Mitsubishi A6M Zero
- Vought F4U Corsair
- McDD F-15 Eagle
- Focke Wulf FW 190
- Lockheed U-2
- Lockheed P-38 Lightning
- MiG-21
- Fokker D.VII
- Piper Cub family
- Fokker E.I
- Cessna 150 series
- Junkers Ju87 Stuka
- North American B-25 Mitchell
- Hawker Hurricane
- Ryan NYP
- De Havilland Mosquito
- Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik
- Bell 47
- Curtiss JN Jenny
- Rutan Voyager
- Grumman F6F Hellcat
- Northrop B-2 Spirit
- Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
- De Havilland Comet
- Boeing 737
- Consolidated PBY Catalina
- GD F-16 Viper
- Avro Lancaster
- Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- North American T-6 family
- Heinkel He 178
- Douglas AD/A-1 Skyraider
- Gates Learjet
- Lockheed Constellation family
- Boeing B-47 Stratojet
- Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker family
- Convair B-58 Hustler
- Sikorsky VS-300
- Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
- Curtiss P-40 Kiityhawk/Warhawk
- Sikorsky S-61 family
- Curtiss Flying Boat (1912)
- Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a
- Convair B-36 Peacemaker
- Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
- North American F-100 Super Sabre
- De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver family
- Beech Bonanza
- Bleriot XI
- Curtiss Pusher
- Junkers J-1
- Northrop P-61 Black Widow
- Boeing 727
- Republic F-105 Thunderchief
- Dassault Mirage III
- Lockheed F-80 family
- Vought F-8 Crusader
- Boeing 247
- Yakovlev Yak-1/3/9 family
- Lockheed Vega
- Tupolev Tu-95 Bear
- Antonov An-124 ruslan
- Bell Jet Ranger family
- Boeing 314 Clipper
- Douglas World Cruiser
- Northrop T-38 Talon
- Douglas DC-9 family
- Morane-Saulnier Type G
- Curtiss NC
- Sikorsky Ilya Muramets
- Boeing 307
- Polikarpov Po-2
- Rutan Varieze
- Cessna T-37
- Deperdussin racer 1912

What? No F-5? No I-16?

thamrong

My take is Supermarine Spitfire the WWII ' Battle of Britian'


Achtung! Spitfire 12 Uhr Kapit鋘!

alphawolf

ermmm the photo is of the Hurricane actually....

walnut

how bout the german aircraft?

thamrong

Oop! Holy mackerel! Sorry.


I didn't notice the dorsal bump. Blutiger Dummkopf!

alphawolf

Heheh..anyway, probably you made the same mis-identification as the German pilots during BoB...thinking they are always being bounced by Spits even though they are being attacked by Hurricanes.

tin

apsal ada segelas beer kat atas cockpit hurricane tu?

terrer itu pilot.

tin

I guess when in the pitch of battle, all enemy's aircraft look the same.

alphawolf

Kalau diskalakan..tu bukan gelas lagi..tu dah tahap tankard besar tu!

alphawolf

Indeed..plus the reputation of the Spitfire. Remember Adolf Galland's reply to Hermann Goering?

alien7749

sebab tu mereka pakai insignia bosar kat aircraft masing2. Worst, few earlier a/c macam hurricane takde radio pun.

tangopapa

I'll will go for "MUSANG" aka "MUSTANG".....

areguard

P51 Mustang...Cadillac of the Sky!!...

thamrong

Originally posted by tin at 20-8-2007 09:02 AM
apsal ada segelas beer kat atas cockpit hurricane tu?

terrer itu pilot.

alphawolf

Too bad pesawat seperti Ta 152, Fw 190D-9, Ki-84, Ki-100 dan N1K2 mempunyai samada masalah QC, kekurangan bahan bakar atau juruterbang kurang berpengalaman

thamrong

Originally posted by areguard at 21-8-2007 08:45 AM
P51 Mustang...Cadillac of the Sky!!...

I agree with Tengo's selection.The North American P-51 Mustang isa product concieved during the early years of WWII. A truely hardy and excellent aircraft. Flown  by US Army Air Corps and Marines ( I am not sure about the RAFs' wallies). Widely used in European theater as bombers escort and in the Pacific war during the islands hopping campaign. This write up taken from a site on P-51[size=-1]www.fighterfactory.com/airworthy-aircraft/p-51d-mustang-aircraft.php
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[quote] April 1940, British Purchasing Commission gavethe North American Aircraft Company 120 days to produce an advancedfighter prototype that met their specifications. The result was theNorth American P-51 Mustang. With its 1,150 hp Allison engine,laminar-flow wing to reduce drag, ducted coolant radiator under thefuselage, and wide-track landing gear, the Mustang easily achievedoutstanding marks from the British. In fact, the Royal Air Forcebegan receiving their order of the Mustang I variant just two monthsbefore Pearl Harbor. The fighters were equipped with four .50 caliberand four .303 caliber guns. The Mustang抯 design allowed it tocarry an ample amount of ammunition, as well as two to four times theamount of fuel of its rivals, making it ideal for long-rangemissions.
As the war progressed, air-to-air combat began to occur at higherand higher altitudes. Pilots quickly discovered the thin air athigher altitudes greatly reduced the Allison engine抯 performance,so the Mustang was relegated to low-level reconnaissance andphotographic missions. But in 1942, the United States Army Air Forcere-examined the Mustang抯 capabilities and placed a larger orderfor several different variants.
Later that year, North American began to test Merlin( Merlin ? this ia a bloody British's engine) engines inthe P-51, to improve its performance at higher altitudes. The testswere successful and demand for the P-51B and P-51C (both equippedwith Merlin engines) increased dramatically. Almost 4,000 of theseversions were produced with four 12.7 mm guns and attachments fortwo-drop tanks or 1,000 lb bombs. The most highly produced Mustang,the P-51D built in 1944, had a more powerful Merlin engine, six.50-inch guns, an extra dorsal fin, and a sliding canopy. NorthAmerican produced close to 8,000 慏

alphawolf

Whilst the Mustang matures into an excellent fighter aircraft, its early versions were fairly average in performance until re-engined with the superlative Merlin engine.

thamrong

Very Long Range (VLP) P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War

These pilots called themselves the 慣okyo Club

tin

I see....

sebelum tu pakai enjin apa ek Alpha? (ini genuine question aaa... )

alphawolf

Enjin Allison...sama dengan P-40. So kira US takleh nak dabik dada sangat la...walaupun enjin Merlin Mustang licence-build oleh Packard, asal enjinnya dari luar....