PabloSniper

Hello everyone! Surely there is a prototype that you would like to fly, right? Which one would it be? I'll start... I'd like to fly the XP-40Q The XP-60E and Me-309 This topic is not a wish list. It is for recreational purposes only.

An excellent landing

Does anyone know?

This statement is not true and I will prove it with two photos. This was a classic pilot trainer. This is a fighter , and they are practically the same plane. Developed by the same company, with the same wings. Same landing gear. When you have a goal and good will, anything is possible.

This plane had two wings, a short one that was used in 1935 to break the speed record. And a larger one, which was used in 1937 to cross the United States from coast to coast, with a capacity of 285 gallons of fuel. It had a radio and oxygen for the pilot.

What makes me think that this might have been a good option is the following analysis. Go back to 1935... You have a P-36 flying at 281 Mp/h You have P-35 at 289 Mp/h You have Hurricane at 315 Mp/h And 109 at 292 Mp/h In 1935 it was the fastest design, and was far ahead of its time.

Well, let me explain. I don't feel any nationalism towards an american project, because I'm brazilian. And I also don't feel any kind of racism towards those japanese people, in fact I admire them a lot. Apart from the disarmament policy. And as for the H1, I'm a fan of that plane. I'm not an engineer, but I think that with a few adjustments it could have been a good fighter. If I were in charge of the project, I would change the wooden wings for metal wings and install self-sealing tanks. I would keep the same fuel tank, because it had a good range. I would change the two-blade propeller for a three-blade one. And I would install the same radial as the Wildcat FM-2 with 1200hp. Maybe move the cockpit a little forward. Whether he provided the basis for the Zero or Fw is not the most important thing. What matters is that he had potential.

Japan had ceased to be a feudal country a few years before World War II and its industry was young. They clearly used spies to see what the West was producing. And their industry was so limited that they were unable to produce an engine that would make their fighters reach the speed and altitude requirements in the requisition they made in 1944.

We must remember that these were years of great technological evolution in aviation. It may not be an absolute truth, but it may have some percentage of truth.

Hello everyone! I believe that other people also like this plane, but not everyone knows that it could have been a US Army fighter. The Hughes H1 Racer was developed by business magnate Howard Hughes in 1935, while the American Air Force was still using the Grumman F2F biplane as its main fighter, which could barely reach 231 mph, while his H1 Racer reached 352 mph. The magnate insisted on selling this plane as a fighter to the American Air Force, and in an interview he said that there would be nothing faster than this plane in the next 2 years. And he was right, because neither the Curtiss P-36 nor the Grumman F4F could match its speed. Unfortunately, his plane was not adopted by the American Air Force, but the Japanese spies who were following everything closely disguised as journalists took all the information they could so that the legendary A6M Zero could be created.

This must be a unique experience. I had the opportunity to meet a Brazilian Air Force pilot who flew a Piper as an aerial reconnaissance aircraft in Italy. We were having a great conversation until at one point he remembered his fallen comrades.

Hello Chief, and thanks for the welcome. Yes, it's probably the avatar, as I've been using it for at least 20 years. An image straight from the time tunnel.

This forum is full of IL-2 dinosaurs 😁

Thank you for the welcome. I remember Deutchmark, the project to create a T-6 Texan for the IL-2 was his, right?

Hi FlyingShark, I remember you too. Yes, I was an active member of the SAS forum, and I was also a member of an old forum that was a competitor of SAS, it was called All Aircraft Arcade, if I'm not mistaken.