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What's your favourite nightfighter of WW2? (Read 1350 times)

Jul 16^th, 2005 at 12:35pm

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Personally I say Bf110s (especially G-4/R3) are best, along with He 219s (especialy R-7s).

And British vote goes to Mosquito and Beaufighters.

The ones I voted for I consider the most sinister.

Pics for the planes:

Messerschmitt Bf110

Shocked

Shocked

Go to http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/bf110g.html Fully sick picture of former Zerstorer Geschwader 76 shark mouthed Bf110 on engine run up Cheesy

Cheesy

Cheesy

Cheesy

Cheesy

Cheesy

Ju88C

Ju88G

Real cool nachtjager b&w photos that bring out the sinister side of these planes:http://people.freenet.de/aircraftworld/Ju88B2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://people.freene...

He 219s

<That's one sinister-looking evil-kinevil! Shocked

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Dornier 217

Cool...

Mosquitos

Beaufighter

Defiant

RAAF roundels? Found something while looking for this that you don't wanna know about... Undecided

Undecided

Hurricanes

I love the British night paint scheme! Grin

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Reply #1 - Jul 16^th, 2005 at 3:45pm

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RAAF Roundels - Are you referring to the Defiant picture?
If so, I'd guess its the exposure of the picture thats made the red appear lighter than it is... Interesting to see that 264 Sqn had roundels with no white band on the fuselage but still had the yellow outline on the roundel and the white band on the fin flash...

Beau or Mossie gets my vote...

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Reply #2 - Jul 16^th, 2005 at 4:27pm

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

....are there geographical limitations to your poll?

I would hope that one of, if not the only, aircraft of WWII, designed specifically as a night fighter, might have made the list?.?.. ???

   p-61....anyone?

   Bueller?.........Bueller?

.....so I loaded up the plane and moved to Middle-EEEE..........OIL..that is......

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Reply #3 - Jul 16^th, 2005 at 8:13pm

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As far as I know, the only aircraft specifically designed as night fighters that saw production/service in WW2 (as opposed to variants adapted for night fighting) were the Northrop P-61, and Heinkel He 219.

To the list, however, you'd have to properly add the radar equipped F6F (Hellcat) and F4U (Corsair) variants of the USN, used in the Pacific.

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Reply #4 - Jul 17^th, 2005 at 4:03am

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I want to be weird...so instead of the P-38M, or the P-61...

I'm going to say....

The Havoc Turbinlite/Hurricane pair.

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Reply #5 - Jul 17^th, 2005 at 4:26am

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A Beaufighter made the first night intercept using radar in 1940, but as a nightfighter I reckon that the Mosquito is top dog.

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Reply #6 - Jul 21^st, 2005 at 9:50am

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Since this thread seems to be gasping for air, I'll attempt a little resuscitation.....

Since I always like to learn new things and because of my penance for debate, I did a little research;

www.wingsontheweb.com/vhangar/he219/tour.html

http://www.kotfsc.com/aviation/he-219.htm

The first one is just interesting. It would be great to see the thing reassembled.

The second link goes into the history and has some great pictures.

According to that site (I know......don't believe everything you see on the internet!), the 219 didn't begin life purely as a night fighter, leaving the 61' as the only aircraft to claim that honor.

I'll be ducking now..... 8)

.....so I loaded up the plane and moved to Middle-EEEE..........OIL..that is......

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Reply #7 - Aug 7^th, 2005 at 1:02am

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best 1 by far is the p-61 blackwidow. muahaha japs hated that plane. many bombers where down by them, and 1 jap that wwas captuterd by american in the south pacific said" we where flying along and alll of a sudden BOOM, we where spinning down. and no 1 knew whta happen, untill the americans told us"

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Reply #8 - Aug 10^th, 2005 at 11:01am

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Huricane wins hands down!

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Reply #9 - Aug 10^th, 2005 at 2:00pm

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I must say, my favorite is the Beaufighter, but the best is the mosquito

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Reply #10 - Aug 10^th, 2005 at 2:25pm

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Quote:

Defiant

RAAF roundels?

I think this answers that question.
The Shuttleworth Collection Sea Hurricane & the same photo converted to greyscale.

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Found something while looking for this that you don't wanna know about... Undecided

Undecided

Being too nosy for my own good I'd really like to know what I don't wanna know about. Wink

Wink

PS. I always liked the Beaufighter myself. The Whispering Death. Darned good aeroplane.

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Hurricanes

I love the British night paint scheme!

Your image seems to have disappeared so here's one I took at Duxford last month.

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Reply #11 - Aug 11^th, 2005 at 1:43am

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Bueller?.........Bueller?

HAHAHAHA! That is the funniest thing I heard today, not because "Bueller" is a funny name, but because I caught the movie quote. Brilliant movie. As for the poll, I voted for all of 'em, I like them all.

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Reply #12 - Aug 25^th, 2005 at 8:01am

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Being too nosy for my own good I'd really like to know what I don't wanna know about.

So, Hagar, you really wanna know? Grin

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Reply #13 - Sep 5^th, 2005 at 11:53am

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Gotta be the P-61 Blackwidow. The Mid Atlantic Air Museum is restoring one. Go to www.maam.org and
click on the link called " the widows web " for more info.

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Reply #14 - Sep 9^th, 2005 at 4:22pm

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Mossie got my vote, one of the finest British fighters thats ever seen combat. Wink

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