Does anyone have a least favorite airplane? If so, please say which one and why.
Least Favorite WW2 Airplanes
Does anyone have a least favorite airplane? If so, please say which one and why.
Planes are like women. There are no ugly planes, just those which are not cared/painted/made up sufficiently.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Stuka for me I think. I could compile a list but I won't!
Sorry Dan, I love all my table top WW2 Warbirds
Me too. except for my Stuka. (except I can dive faster than anybody)
Do you mean from the available models or in general, please?
WGS Models
My least favorite single model is the Dewoitine.
My least favorite series or group of airplanes is the WWII bi-planes because they are already covered better in WGF and there are so many better choices.
Real Life
The Devastator was an exercise in bad ideas and is a misnomer so it is my least favorite functioning airplane. Salt in the wound is that if Ares produces them I will buy because I cannot control myself around salt water and aircraft.
Then there is the Blohm & Voss BV 141 monstrosity. However, I recognize that some love her like a wounded puppy so I will leave it at that.
In this I mean real life or models but I suspect that not many people have a least favorite model.
In one book I read I found that the P-39 was the least liked airplane of WW2. Because the motor shaft was running between the pilot's legs, the engine was in the back of the plane, and it had tricycle landing gear, all of which made it very difficult to fly. So most of the P-39s were given to the Russians to fly.
Last edited by Future Pilot; 02-14-2018 at 05:22. Reason: Spelling error
Originally Posted by Future Pilot
Another bigger problem was that the plane did not preform at altitude limiting it to lower lever flights.
That was I another reason. I forgot about it.
The P-39 was a fine plane, but since Bell couldn't develop a working supercharger, it couldn't perform it's original design function: high altitude bomber interceptor.
So it was used as a low-mid level fighter/ground attacker. There it performed well, but against highly trained Japanese and German fighter pilots. And it's partner, the P-40, was somewhat more
improvable. It also got bad press/rep in the beginning for these reasons, but also for a lack of oxygen equipment in New Guinea and Guadalcanal. The 37mm cannon tended to jam, but the 20mm hotchkiss was excellent.
The fact that the P-39 was mostly sent to LL countries, and most to the USSR, was more a policy decision rather than the merits of the plane. Now, that said, with the P-51 and P-38 coming on-line as mid-high level fighters (and a distinct lack of a need for homeland air defense), and the P-47 and improved P-40s (which a lot got sent away too) for low-mid level work, the P-39 was a old plane out.
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
Right.
I also found that one Russian pilot became an ace in in P-39s
The Martin Marauder was called the WIDOW MAKER because it was so hard to fly but those that mastered it loved it.
If I remember right the Soviets found a good use for the P 39...Tank busting. The 37 was useful on the top armor of some tanks, like Pz II and III.
p-75 eagle. interesting theory. poor in application.
Brewster Buffalo except the version Finland received.
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