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me a P=38 lighting twin engine fighter in Europe air war with the Germans .second choice would be a Spitfire fighter in the eagle flight with the british just before America entered the war
Maybe the Me 163, o.k so what if it might explode during take off and especially landing with all those explosive gases behind you. It had no landing gear and it only had enough fuel for 15 minutes of flight before gliding
But that 15 minutes in this rocket would be the best ride of your life
B29 Super fortress would be cool too
Set an altitude record for Props in a comfortable pressurized environment. Great range and those remote guns would come in handy also
Like others have said, can't go past a PBY Catalina
If you had enough of fighting in the pacific, you could Always go AWOL
With its range just fly it off to one of those far off tropical islands until the wars over
I'd have to go for the P51D, it was the first model airplane I ever built. After that, probably a BF109F. Flying a P38 would also be a dream come true.
Why would you call them brainwashed? The pre-war trained pilots of the Japanese Navy were a true elite, equal to, or even better than USN avaiators. Thankfully for the United States, there were never very many of them, and after the losses at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Solomons Campaign, very few were left.
I dare say that if I had been a Japanese of military age in those times, I would have been quite proud to be among their ranks. They were doing their duty, for their country, as they saw fit. Unfortunately, their country was ruled by xenophobic, cruel warmongers, and it paid the price for their folly.
This is an aside from the OP's question, but something that isn't often discussed about the European WWII theater is the incidence of pilots intentionally ramming enemy planes. Although it may have been rare, there were cases reported toward the end of the war of German fighter pilots attempting to take down allied bombers over Germany by ramming. During the desperate early days of the fighting on the eastern front, Russian pilots who ran out of ammunition were known to have taken down several German planes in this manner. One was a Russian woman pilot. The Russians became very skilled at this and some were reported to have lived to perform the feat two or three times.
My initial pick would be the Me 262, but I then recall reading about it's often unreliable engines, and it's vulnerability in landing. Therefore, have to go with a popular choice, the P-51D, which also shot down more than a few Me-262's.
The FW-190D, and TA-152 were excellent aircraft; as good as anything the Allies had, but another German case of too little, too late.
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