Spitfire V Mustang

[RedDragonFly]

Not been in a Spit unfortunately but have been in the back of a P-51. An amazing experience from start to finish, total of 3 hrs or so across two days. Loved every single second, it pulls very nicely, still does very capable aeros (while I fought the urge to make dugga dugga dugga machine gun sounds) and sounds and looks wonderful and I felt very privileged to have done it.

The owner also has a T6 and a Sea Fury, and says the Mustang is a pussycat compared to the Fury.

It is a beautiful machine, but I would still take the Spit.

[Torquatus]

Couldn`t We create a hybrid of the two? Imagine that.

Supermarine tried. It was called the Spiteful, and the test pilots didn't like it as much as the Spitfire. It was doomed anyway, as by the time it was ready for production the Meteor and Vampire were the new thing.

It was uglier than the Spit and the Mustang as well.

[kluge]

The SETP ran an interesting comparison between P-47, P-51, F4U and F6F, which were evaluated by modern TPs and the Mustang fared surprisingly poorly,

In the right hands the Yak 9 was supposed to be able to wee over all its western contemporaries.

yak


Makes a P51 look like a drag queen.
Still not as pretty as an early mark Spitfire though.

[Trojan1981]

the Mustang is a pussycat compared to the Fury

I have never flown in either but just watching the displays at airshows will prove the above! Also sounds so much more powerful.

Sea Fury = Greatest piston engined fighter ever built, absolutley incredible

[Buster Hyman]

As a child of the Commonwealth, I'm sorry to say that on looks alone, the Mustang for me. I actually like the clipped wings of the later Spitfire Marks, but if you want a performance Mustang, look no further than the CA-15 Kangaroo!

• Maximum speed: 448 mph (721 km/h)
• Range: 2,450 mi (3,920 km)
• Service ceiling: 39,000 ft (12,870 m)
• Rate of climb: 4,900 ft/min (1,531 m/min)

[kluge]

..... is there a Joey's head sticking out the oil cooller ?

[Data-Lynx]

Is it a Tank?

What on earth have they done between the two fuselages of this F82? It has to be too big to just be fuel.

[kluge]

its for mating with the CA-15 Kangaroo

[GPMG]

Twin engined spitfire? Type 327 mockup.

[LurkerBelow]

Very much the Mustang -
I was at an airshow where the entertainment for the afternoon was
an air-raid and scramble by the good guys to get into the air.
Compared to the Mustang, the Spitfire seemed to waddle like a duck as
it speed off down the airfield as it staggered to get airborne in the rush.
It just didn't look very elegant in comparison to the Mustang.

[Load Toad]

..it waddles like a duck as it speeds and staggers does it; right-oh.

[Buster Hyman]

Trojan...Is that a Gannett in the background?

PS. Any excuse to put another RAN Sea Fury up!

[GPMG]

Tis a Gannet with it's wings folded, and a natty pair of shorts sported by the ground crew.

The F-82 (twin Mustang) has a radar mounted between the fuselages, it isn't pleased to see you..

[Jackonicko]

Pah!

If we're opening it up beyond Spit and 'Stang....





or even, if only they'd developed the engine properly......

[airborne_artist]

Buy a ticket for the Lottery tonight and with the £90m you can buy both!

Sea Fury does it for me. Even at 50 it still stirs the loins

[elecEye]

the stalwart of the BoB was not the Spitfire.. ok it did a good job
but the Hurricane did most of the work

[Somph]

NOT the question. The Hurri is (was) pig-ugly compared to the Spit and Mustang. High-back full-winged Spit for me by a gnat's whatsit hair over the Mustang.

[oldsoak]

between the lot, I prefer the Martin Baker MB5

...I'll get me coat....

[Brian Abraham]

The initial drawing of the Spit made it a Hurri look a like. Went through 13 iterations during development before becoming the Spit we are so familiar with. 2nd drawing is iteration #11, 3rd #13 (final).

[Blacksheep]

If the Hurri IIc had flown in the BoB no-one would be sniffing about it being a fugly. Those four 20 mms woulda knocked spots off everything in its path.