And imagine, I haven’t even exhausted my supply of nifty warbirds. You’d think I dug this sort of thing or something.
So here goes: Nazis and Allies.
The bird’s eye and cockpit view of the The Arado Ar-234 “Blitz” jet bomber. Look at all that nifty gadgetry!
Consider that at the same time the Reich was building twin-engined jet bombers and jet fighters they were pulling their artillery with horses. Nazi Germany was like the non-comic book version of Bizarro World. If only the Allies had gotten a fellow into Berlin to get the Fuhrer to say RELTIH!, he might have up and vanished and the war would have been over.
One last Luftwaffe beauty and we’ll move on:
The Focke-Wulf Fw190. Certainly the best German fighter of the war and possibly the best fighter of any nation. But she don’t get no respect, overshadowed by her cousin the Messerschmit Me109. Much like this poor, fat fellow:
The Republic P-47 “Thunderbolt.” I hear this was the most widely produced fighter of the war and yet the poor Jug gets overshadowed by its own cousin, the North American P-51 “Mustang.” Stupid Mustang. It isn’t even that pretty a plane.
Yet again, another excellent aircraft overshadowed by its cousin:
Hawker’s Hurricane. I like this plane. She ain’t pretty but at an airshow once her wing shielded me from a very cold, rainy night. There’s a story about this particular Hurricane and the Focke-Wulf above but you’ll have to pony up for that frosty beverage first.
I guess that will about cover the warbirds but before I go, lust with me after the most beautiful plane ever built:
Hot diggity damn. That’s a bird and a half. The Lockheed P-38 “Lightning.” Sometimes it seems as if Lockheed has the patent on beautiful designs. They’ve definitely got the innovations in military aviation award sewn up.