To: Simon Green
The Finns showed the Soviets that the Brewster Buffalo was a great plane when flown by competent and motivated pilots.
F-14 TomCat should also be at the top of the list (and the Bombcat too)
F-4u Corsair
11 posted on
06/15/2018 7:26:44 AM PDT by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Conan the Librarian
The F8U Crusader is not mentioned. Should be considered.
13 posted on
06/15/2018 7:28:27 AM PDT by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Conan the Librarian
The Finns showed the Soviets that the Brewster Buffalo was a great plane when flown by competent and motivated pilots. Against poorly trained pilots flying equally obsolescent aircraft.
To: Conan the Librarian
The Soviets loved the P-39 Airacobra.
Five of the 10 highest scoring Soviets aces logged the majority of their kills in P-39s. Grigoriy Rechkalov scored 44 victories in Airacobras. Pokryshkin scored 47 of his 59 victories in P-39s, making him the highest scoring P-39 fighter pilot of any nation, and the highest scoring Allied fighter pilot using an American fighter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_P-39_Airacobra
44 posted on
06/15/2018 7:53:21 AM PDT by
DFG
To: Conan the Librarian
F-4u Corsair was a beautiful airplane but it was a death trap and not worthy of this list.
66 posted on
06/15/2018 8:37:31 AM PDT by
MosesKnows
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