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Take An F4U-1D Corsair And Put It Up Against The P-51D Mustang. Who Do You Think Would Win?

Lets See, There Both High Altitude Fighters, They Both Have "Bubble" Canopy's,

The F4U-1D Can Turn Tighter, But Then Again The P-51D Has That Laminar Flow Wing.

They Both Have The Same Armemant [Six .50 Cals]
The P-51 Has 1,695 HP Engine, But The F4U-1D Had A 2,350 HP.

What Do You Think?

I Am Asking This Because Some Sites You Go To Rave About The P-51 Being The "Best Fighter Of WWII" But If There Going By How Many Kills The F4U Came Out Too Late In The War To Make A "Huge" Impact [They Did Do A Good Job Though] And Then If You Look To See How Many Aircraft Are Still Flyable: P-51: 150, F4U: 28 You Can Kinda Tell Who The Favorite Was

Who Do You Think Would Win?

                                8)Brandon Buchanan8)

Wartime comparison suggests the winner would easily be the Corsair.

If you go by the number of kills...then the answer is very obvious.

No US aircraft downed more Axis aircraft than the B-17.

Best is very subjective though...

Is a Hurri or a Spit better? Spits took on the escorts and Hurris the bombers, but which was more valuable? What would have been the result of a homogenous force of Hurris or Spits?

How about the Lightning? The P-38 carried the airwar to the Axis while 'Stang was still maturing. P-38's also flew strategic bombing missions of their own. Kinda a WWII version of the phamous Phantom. Take the Recce in a '38 escorted by '38s, lead the bombers in a '38, bomb the target in '38s escorted by '38s, take the post strike pictures in a '38 escorted by still more '38s.

To me the best fighter of the war was the one the crew of a shot-up bomber saw pulling alongside as they came off target.

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I think it is true that the last Spitfire lost in air to air combat was shot down by a Spitfire!

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I think its kinda of silly having allies chasing after allies, I never heard of WWII Japan, Germany, or Italy producing/buying American aircraft to fly against Americans. ???

Lets just face facts, the Spitfire kicks bottom
I'm just watching Spitfire Ace (cheers Roger, I owe you some serious alcohol!), and one of the pilots of a BoB Spit. made a deeply profound comment to a German 109 pilot at a meeting "You know why you lost don't you? Because it took an a really good pilot to fly a 109, any old idiot could fly a Spitfire!"
I think this says enough about the genius of Mr. R. J. Mitchells design

Ozzy (Spitfire and marmalade guru )

I've Gotn This Book: Corsair, The F4U In WWII And Korea By Barret Tillman And One Of The Pictures Is Of A An F4U During The Soccer Wars ??? That Shot Down 3 Mustangs And Corsair.

It's Nice For Me To Hear That The Corsair Is Winning
Yeah Baby

For The Sptfire Vs. Hurricane: The Hurricane

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Depends on the Mk of the Spitfire and Hurricane. The Hurricane was always able to out turn the Spitfire. And everything else for that matter...

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I think it was on Spitfire Ace that one of the BoB pilots told how he (British Spitfire pilot) was shot down by another Spitfire. I also remember reading an account by a 485 (New Zealand) Squadron pilot who, on or around D-Day, was forced to shoot down a Seafire that continued to attack him even though his own Spitfire IX was painted in full invasion stripes. I'm certain this kind of thing happened quite often. Johnie Johnson wrote in his book Wing Leader that he saw on one occasion an Fw190 shoot down a 109.
Anyhow, slightly off topic, sorry
The Corsair I'm sure is (was) a better fighter than the Mustang.
Oh and Spitfire V's Hurricane, Spitfire of course 
Oh and Mark, I'll hold you to that Alcohol