What is your favourite aircraft of World War Two? Probably hard to pick one so I'll say top three.?

Question

My 3 - Focke Wolf 190

- Spitfire

- Heinkel He 219

Have fun!

Answer 1

Me262

Me163

P-36

Answer 2

Messerschmitt Bf-109 (I prefer the looks of the G models, although many sources say they should've stopped with the F)

Kawasaki Ki-61 (arrived too late, converted from radial to water-cooled inline, which the Japanese had too little experience with, but a fine aircraft nonetheless)

MiG-3 (my pick for the best-looking warbird; another late comer; the Mikoyan-Gurevich designers were told, 'Make it sleek,fast & tough" and they succeeded, practically under German guns & bombs)

Answer 3

Dornier Do-335 Pfeil

Grumman F-7f Tigercat

Messerschmitt Me-263 Schwalbe

Answer 4

1. The one that bombed Hiroshima

2. The one that bombed Nagasaki

3. The one that bombed Hiroshima ;)

Answer 5

F4F Wildcat (Fighters)

P-51 Mustang (Fighters)

B-24 Liberator (bombers)

Answer 6

P-51

B-25 (the gunship version used in the Pacific)

Me-262

Answer 7

Two of my top three favorites ironically were almost never built.

de Havilland Mosquito  What didn't this aircraft do during the war.  I can only imagine the sound of this aircraft when both Merlins were in full song!

Focke-Wolf FW190  Kurt Tank's masterpiece.  Again a very versatile aircraft that was flown until the end of the war.

Last but not least the North American B-25 Mitchell.  Again an aircraft that served in all theaters.  I have read that the Mitchell was an "honest" aircraft and easy to fly.  My favorite is the solid nose gunship version.  Used to such deadly effect during the Pacific campaign.  Plus will be ever immortalized as the bomber chosen for the Doolitle Raid.

Answer 8

1. Spitfire.  It won the Battle of Britain (the Hurricanes did most of the work, but they would have been sitting ducks without the Spit).

2.deHavilland Mosquito.  It carried the same bomb load as a B-17 nearly twice as fast, fastest operational aircraft in WWII until 1944.

3. North American Harvard/Texan/SNJ.  It brought the fighter pilots from Stearmans and Tiger Moths to Spitfires and Mustangs.  We would have lost the war without them.

Answer 9

- Spitfire

Answer 10

P38 Lightning

A26 Invader

P63 Black widow

Answer 11

Spitfire

Mosquito

Mustang

Answer 12

F4U Corsair

Answer 13

P-47

P-38

B-26

Answer 14

1. Mustang      

2. Stuka

3.Corsair

Answer 15

Tempest Mk.V

Spitfire XIV and later

Il-2 Sturmovik

Answer 16

Spitfire,mustang and japanese zero

Answer 17

262 or 109-G variants

Answer 18

...P51 Mustang (the fighter that helped win the war) The ME 109 was a great fighter till "it" came up against the P51... and the "Big" Boy in the sky's was the B17.

Answer 19

My favourite is the RAF Submarine Spitfire because it's small and can get to around 1000kmp/h.

Answer 20

First is the P-51 Mustang. Beautiful, deadly, and it had incredible reach. The Mustang's long range made deliveries to Berlin a lot safer. There are few aircraft of the era that can compare to it.

Second in the Supermarine Spitfire. Incredibly pretty, also very deadly, and it's history of design is phenomenal. That aircraft was raising h**l for a huge percentage of the war. It'll never be replaced.

Third would be the Me-262 Schwalbe. The first production jet fighter. It was the birth of an era. Despite belonging to "Them" it's an incredible aircraft. Thankfully, it didn't come  any sooner. I'm just very frustrated that none of such a historic aircraft survived to the present.

I have to provide honorable mention to the P-38 Lightning, B-17, B24, B-29, and DC-3, as those are all very noteworthy as well.