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]

  • @[email protected]English
    8•1 month ago

    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.

  • @BytemeisterEnglish
    8•1 month ago

    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.

      • @BytemeisterEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        Hell yeah. Enemy fighters can’t lift enough firepower off the ground to shoot you down.

  • Skua
    5•1 month ago

    Does the de Havilland Mosquito count? That thing was amazing