Light fighter fans would tell you everything about turn-rate, speed, and agility and how heavy fighters are nothing more than failures and death traps. But if you really think about it, heavy fighters are simply advanced machines too ahead of their time, failed by the technological limitations of their era. Being twin-engine do-everything multirole fighters they are literally the precursor to what modern fighters like the F-15 and Su-27 would become! I love heavy fighters, I love heavy fighters, I love heavy fighters, I want a P-38 to [My lawyer has advised me not to finish this paragraph]
Mustang is too glitzy for me. I go hard for a P-47 though. That’s a real workhorse, and the radial engine is simply too beautiful to exist in this world anymore.
The jug
Hell yeah. Enemy fighters can’t lift enough firepower off the ground to shoot you down.
Grandpa’s manned drones
The P-38 is my favorite fighter of all time.
Same. If you want to see sexy, though…
(B17 prototype using Allison engines and P-38 nacelles)
The Mosquito was the fastest thing in the sky when it came out, and was only beaten by the early jets. Which meant it could engage on it’s terms, rather than getting locked into a dogfight.
Does the de Havilland Mosquito count? That thing was amazing
And it weighs the same as a duck
Or bread
Or very small rocks
