Favorite German plane

[Doktor Krollspell]

Here's one of my all time Luftwaffe favorites... the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil





Both pics: http://www.eucmh.com

A really beautiful and forceful Fighter if I ever saw one! It would have been interesting if the Pfeil had entered service earlier and had seen more combat... And another thing... Don't hesitate to post some cool pictures to go with your favorite airplanes. it's always nice to see some new pics

To Beershark... I totally agree with you on the Heinkel He 219 Uhu! What a Nightfighter! Another of my personal favorites from WWII.


Regards,

Krollspell

[Deiter Hollenstein]

I would certainly go with the HE 219. For night work it was unsurpassed.

[gumalangi]

I would go for He 219, a flawless nightfighter.

[Erich]

my suggestion is go back and get adequate book references and check with Luftw. vets about the I./NJG 1 missions with the Uhu. Much more a decrepid nachtjäger than what all the myths portray about it. The Ju 88G-6 and ultimately the Me 262A-1a were the best German night fighters in the war. Funny only the I./NJG 1 had the He 219 in action, and that is not a very good consensus of the a/c as the Ju 88G-6 was replacing the Bf 110G-4 fast and furious. the He 219 had weak wing spars the ejection seats did not work all the time. The powerful armament was too much for the bird as the belly tray was reduced to two 2cm weapons. no rear defensive armament nor every Uhu had rear warning radar thus it was Mossie fodder

Tschüß

Erich

[trebizond]

TA-152, hands-down. . . . an FW-190 put on a diet, and given a course of vitamins.

472mph at 13,500m using GM-1 Nox injection system. . . now that's a spicy V12 Jumo 213 powered annular cowled meatball!

[Ian Earl]

I agree, Ta-152 wins for me!

[John W. Howard]

Hello Ian; where have you been? It is good to see you back!! Best wishes.

[cobra6]

I choose from design perspective

Definitely Heinkel 111 bomber. just because of the looks of it, nice panoramic view, pretty useless in combat. But looks very nice.



Second the Junker 188 or 388. Also looks very cool.



Third would be the the Henshel 129, "UHU" and Stuka



Cobra 6

[Jock]

Glad I'm not the only one with a love of the He 111, Cobra! Its a beautiful aircraft, isnt it. A shame it was a bit, well, rubbish really. But still, very good looking.



Cheers,

[Lustmolch]

cobra6

That Heinkel - is it the 111P from the Gardemon collection?

On the same theme, there was an article in Flypast about 10 years or so back that showed two recovered Ju88 fuselages - anyone have any further information on these?

[TPMM]

"The Scourge of Atlantic", Focke-Wulf Fw-200 Condor!

[phylo_roadking]

Like most aircraft recoveries, the Ju88 bits will be in store until a lot of other bits are recovered, then the parts combined. You wouldnt believe whats in store - or whats missing! Even some famous stuff is long gone. Look how long the projects to rebuild a Halifax and a Stirling have taken so far. Why do you think the Blenheim crowd just decided to build from scratch lol

[waldorf]

I'm with Jock and Cobra. The He-111 is definitely my favorite German bomber.

Regards,

Chris

[chaz]

Stuka, as I was known by this name in the air cadets due to my landing approach angle in gliders , but allways had a soft spot for the FW200 condor as well

[JR]

mine would be the ME-323 Gigant!