Which is superior: the Vought Corsair or the Grumman Hellcat?
WWII Aircraft
Which one has the biggest engine and the biggest propeller?
For me it is the P-38 Lightning, the finest American warbird
per dollar the hellcat, corsair was expensive to operate as shit.
In the hands of a good Italian pilot it was outstanding.
Actually, the Hellcat and Corsair both had the same engine, the Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp. The Corsair has a larger propeller, however this was somewhat of a disadvantage because it caused landing troubles due to the resulting landing position of the Corsair.
>Which is superior: the Vought Corsair or the Grumman Hellcat?
Hellcat corsairs couldn't land on carriers for shit until later in the war thus they were used by marine aviation units from land bases
Why does it matter if they had the same engine?
The Firefly and late Spitfires shared the same engine, guess which one was shit.
>[the Firefly was] designed to the contemporary FAA concept of a two-seat fleet reconnaissance/fighter
You're comparing a plane-killer to a recon and sub-hunting aircraft. They were built for different purposes.
And thus the gull wing, which allowed shorter landing gear.
better question
The Spitfire or the Hurricane?
>Hellcat corsairs
>Virgin Hellcat
>Chad Gull Wings Corsair
Reminder that a Corsair pilot managed to shoot down 3 Jap planes in a span of 60 seconds.
spitfire, had far better development potential and was a better combat aircraft, more likely to bring its pilots home.
while hurricanes did fly more missions and get more kills than the spits during BoB the spits got more per sorties, and were the preferred fighter for fighter command post 1940
The THICCEST
>this kills the tankie
From a personal perspective the Spitfire.
From a strategic perspective the Hurrican/Spitfire HiLo mix worked well.
The Corsair is better as an aircraft, but they fucked up the landing gear so until late '44 it couldn't actually be used on carriers (which defeats the whole point of the plane).
more like
>the tankie kills this
Poor man's Mosquito
more like
>the tankie kills this after about 19 tries
The mosquito
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Chinese Prototype Fighter prior to WW2-Liuchow Kwangsi Type 3
This thing had a lot of potential.
Beaufighter a cute!
The Mosquito was the poor man's Lightning
>made out of fucking plywood
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This guy comes up and kicks you're aircraft engineer in the ass.
What do
The virgin lightning vs the chadsquito