OK, How About Your Top Five Planes That Are Not In The Sim (yet)?

[RNAS10_Oliver]

Hard to do just 5.

 

Fairey Fulmar

Shorts 184 Seaplane

Sopwith Baby

Fairey Barracuda

Bristol Beaufort

[jojy47jojyrocks]

Top 5 Planes that I wish to see:

 

1. Nakajima Ki-43

2. Macchi C.205 Veltro

3. Fiat G.55 Centauro

4. A6M Zero series 

5. F4U Corsair

[Heliopause]

Brewster Buffalo
Fokker D21
Ki 43
Ki 44
M.C. 200

[Enceladus828]

Pe-3

Bf-110F

IL-4

A-20G

Beaufighter

[Raptorattacker]

5 hours ago, Juri_JS said:

1. Hs-123

2. Fw-189

3. I-153

4. Bf-109 G-10

5. Ju-87 D-5

I can't find a disagreement with any of those, maybe I'd swap the G10 for something like a Dewoitine D.520 or a Fiat G55...

[Vastarien]

1. Fiat G55 Centauro

2. Avro Lancaster

3. Kawanishi N1K Shiden Kai

4. Grumman F4F Wildcat

5. Dornier Do 335

 

(6. Mosquito B MkIV

7. Ansaldo SVA)

 

Edited October 19, 2022 by Vastarien

[Tendo]

1. Mig 15

2. F-86 Sabre

3. Northrop F-5

4. Yak 3

5. La-9

[Gryphus25]

I somehow like early fighters and a kind of "odd" or early bombers.

 

1. Fiat G.50

2. CANT Z.1007 Alcione

3. He 111 E

4. Iljuschin DB-3

5 .Bloch MB.150

 

I really would like to see a "Battle of France" or "Battle of Barcelona" as the next expension, but this

seems quite unlikely to happen.

[DBFlyguy]

1. F6F Hellcat
2. F4U Corsair
3. Ki-61 Tony
4. Ki-43 Oscar
5. Realistic representations of the P-47D and P-40E ?

[spreckair]

Spitfire Mk. 1

Hurricane Mk. 1

Ju-87B

Curtis P-36

Morane MS 406

 

Pretty clear where this is headed.

[Udmurt]

7 часов назад, Fritz_X сказал:

IL-4: Not a plane I would fly, but the bomber guys here would definitely deserve this one. Plus it would close the VVS gap in the mid-sized bomber department.

Absolutely true. All thumbs up.

 

4 часа назад, DBS сказал:

FW 189 Uhu (I'd love farting around in this. It would work if they embellished recon missions (artillery spotting etc)

Exactly the same, great idea.

 

And Ju 87B would be very nice.

 

Finally, I do hope there will be Mosquito level bomber/recon version - since there is already a ground attacker Mossie.

[schwarzerHund]

Beaufighter

P-36/Hawk 75

I-153

Bloch MB-152

HS-123

[percydanvers]

1. Ta 152

2. FW 190 A-9

3. Bf 109 G-10

4. Re 2005

5. beaufighter

[Firesilver]

B-17

B-24

B-25

F6F-3

SBD-3

 

[CanadaOne]

Lancaster

Heinkel-219

F6F

F4U

Zero

[oc2209]

Ooh, tough question. So many options. This list would be likely to change upon flying and fighting:

 

1) Yak-3. Basically a Spitfire at low altitude, but with nose guns. That's how I think of it, anyway.

 

2) Ta-152. For godlike, vulgar excesses in raw speed and striking power.

 

3) N1K2. Japanese late-war dogfighter with a Fw-190's armament (essentially).

 

4) A6M2 model 21. For the purest version of the Zero at its aerobatic peak.

 

5) Bf-109C or D. Before the design was modernized and got fatter. The armament would be horrible, so it'd be purely for aerobatic enjoyment.

 

Honorable mention: Spitfire I for the same reasons as the early 109.

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

Jesus Christ only 5? Thats cruelty.

 

Yak 3

 

Mc200

 

Corsair

 

A6M2

 

And all in 5th place! : Ki-100, Hellcat, Bristol Beaufighter, La7, Ta-152, D520, B-17, B-29, P-61

 

Puhuhuha I could go on forever.

[Rjel]

11 minutes ago, I./JG52_Woutwocampe said:

Jesus Christ only 5? Thats cruelty.

 

Yak 3

 

Mc200

 

Corsair

 

A6M2

 

And all in 5th place! : Ki-100, Hellcat, Bristol Beaufighter, La7, Ta-152, D520, B-17, B-29, P-61

 

Puhuhuha I could go on forever.

Couldn't we all? But the question was which five. Five. Not Janes All the Worlds Aircraft....?

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

Just now, Rjel said:

Couldn't we all? But the question was which five. Five. Not Janes All the Worlds Aircraft....?

 

Then I need to think about it, for a while. The Saetta might be a goner too then. Argh.

 

Tbc.

[Biggus]

1.  P-40N

2. P-40B/C

3. P-40K

4. Beaufigher MkX

5. A Spitfire variant between the Vb and the IXe that we have.

[Jaws2002]

Let's see.

 

IAR-80/81 of course, but it's on the way.

 

Yak-9U/UT

Zero

F6F

Brewster

N1K2

B-24

[Feldgrun]

1. B-17F/G (AI) 

2. Nakajima Ki-84 

3. Fiat G.55 

4. A6M Zero

5. F4U Corsair

 

6. Ta 152

7. Bf 109 G-10

8. N1K2 Shiden-Kai

9. F4F Wildcat

10. Me 163

[Guest deleted@83466]

That 10, not 5, Feldgrun, if I’m not mistaken

[twilson37]

As we don't have a Pacific map to use it on I will stick to aircraft from the European Theater:

1.)  Bristol Beaufighter 

2.) Westland Lysander (Agent drops in the middle of the night)

3.) Yak-3

4.) Macchi C200 (accurate aircraft for Moscow map)

5.) Vickers Wellington

[Boomerang]

1. NAKAJIMA B5N2 "KATE"
2. MITSUBISHI A6M2 "ZERO"
3. AICHI D3A1 "VAL"
4. MITSUBISHI G4M "BETTY"
5. MITSUBISHI G3M "NELL"

[Feldgrun]

2 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

That 10, not 5, Feldgrun, if I’m not mistaken

 

Yep, 6-10 are my alternates.

[oc2209]

39 minutes ago, Boomerang said:

1. NAKAJIMA B5N2 "KATE"
2. MITSUBISHI A6M2 "ZERO"
3. AICHI D3A1 "VAL"
4. MITSUBISHI G4M "BETTY"
5. MITSUBISHI G3M "NELL"

 

Now that you mention it, a lot of Japanese bombers are remarkably nimble and would be fun to fly.

 

My picks would be the Peggy, Judy, and Grace.

 

Those three also have unusually attractive lines and dimensions for bombers. Well, not the radial Judy. Bleh.

[357th_KW]

I’m looking at this as collector type planes, primarily to expand on BoBp/BoN as we have a much more complete Eastern Front set, and no maps to support anything else yet.  

 

1. B-17F/G - an AI only B-17 would be a huge addition.  It’s hard to overstate how important heavy bombers were to the USAAF in the ETO.  Set this up with a streamlined AI (it doesn’t need to dogfight after all) so you can put together a reasonable sized box of them, say 12-18.

 

2. A-20G/J & Boston III -  since we already have an A-20, these would make a nice addition to give Allied players some flyable bombers with far less development work then a B-25/B-26 or a 4 engined heavy.  They’d also give us some relevant flyable Allied bombers for 1942-1945.

 

3. P-38J-10/15 - the correct P-38 for 8th and 9th AF units in early and mid 1944.  No aileron boost or dive brakes.  Include an F-5 modification to provide another photo-recon platform.

 

4. Spitfire F.IXc - give us a Merlin 61, with 63 and 66 options - now you’ve got the correct Spitfire for action over Normandy, and you’ve covered mid 1942 through mid 44.

 

5.  Mustang I/Ia/II - while these only ever served in small numbers, they saw continuous use as intruders and recon machines from mid 42 through the end of 44.

 

All of these choices are applicable to BoN (and most to BoBp as well), while also helping to open up earlier scenarios on the channel coast.  Ultimately it would be awesome to be able to stretch the Western Front all the way back to 1940, but that would require a lot more aircraft.

[Charon]

The top five planes I want to fly in Il-2:

1. I-153. I had a lot of fun with this back in 1946. Yeah, the Gladiator and the CR42 are cool, but the I-153 has retractable gear. It's just a giant engine and some wings; it looks so cool!
2. MS 406. The workhorse of the French air-force, and it would be useful for a Finnish campaign, too.
3. Fw 189. *Visibility*
4. Hs 123. Just a cool little ground attacker that stuck around longer than anyone would have thought possible.
5. Fokker D.XXI. I just think it's a neat looking plane.

My top five personal favorites:

1. Fiat RS.14
2. Piaggio P.108
3. Focke Wulf Fw 189
4. Ambrosini SAI 207
5. Kawanishi H6K

I like seaplanes, I like air-cooled inlines, and I like Italian planes.

[JG4_Moltke1871]

After re-think because implementation to already existing maps:

 

BoM:

1. Stuke B2- this time period needs a Stuka!!

2. Il-4- Bomber for the reds.

 

BoN/BoB:

3: Ju188 or Ju388 Need a German late war Bomber 

4: Flyable B26 or B25- Allied Bomber for that time period 

5. Bf109-G10 or FW190-A9- Give Germans a bit Power online.

Edited October 20, 2022 by JG4_Moltke1871

[Guster]

12 hours ago, spreckair said:

Spitfire Mk. 1

Hurricane Mk. 1

Ju-87B

Curtis P-36

Morane MS 406

 

Pretty clear where this is headed.

 

An AI Do 17 Z-2 would supplement that.

[SYN_Ricky]

Macchi MC.200, SM.79, Beaufighter, Corsair, Ki-61

[6./ZG26_Loke]

Avro Lancaster 

Handley Page Halifax 

Short Sterling 

Boeing B-17

Consolidated B-24 Liberator

Donier Do-17

Heinkel He-177

 

Yes I know it is more that five, but so be it. 

[senseispcc]

Five is a very limited choice: (Should all be playable?)

 

A- YAK 3 or LA 7

B- TU-2

C- A seaplane like the Walrus or the Arado ar196

D- Gloster Meteor

E- Some four engines planes?! 

[sevenless]

4 hours ago, 357th_KW said:

 

 

4. Spitfire F.IXc - give us a Merlin 61, with 63 and 66 options - now you’ve got the correct Spitfire for action over Normandy, and you’ve covered mid 1942 through mid 44.

 

 

This! 

[danielprates]

Flyable B26

Any Nachtjaeger

Do 217

Lockheed Ventura/Harpoon family

P61

 

And I'm trying to keep it real. No 4 engine bombers, no long range naval aviation, no flying boats, no PTO, no MTO, no what-if planes. Otherwise I would punch in: a) sunderland; b) Cant alcione; c) BV 138; d) FW 200; e) so, so many japanese planes

[Supercharger]

Ju 88G

P-61B (that's my favorite ?) 

F4U-1

P-47M

Fw 190D13

 

It would be nice if the wrong engine limits(timer) for the Allison powered Fighter's P-39 & P-40 can be fixed. 

[Semor76]

Simple question, simple answer:

 

Nakajima KI-43I

Nakajima Ki-43II

NakajimaKI-61I

Nakajima KI-44

Aichi D3A

 

 

[TheWarsimmer]

Corsair

Zero

Wildcat

B-17

Ki84

?

 

 

[RNAS10_Oliver]

4 hours ago, danielprates said:

Flyable B26

Any Nachtjaeger

Do 217

Lockheed Ventura/Harpoon family

P61

 

And I'm trying to keep it real. No 4 engine bombers, no long range naval aviation, no flying boats, no PTO, no MTO, no what-if planes. Otherwise I would punch in: a) sunderland; b) Cant alcione; c) BV 138; d) FW 200; e) so, so many japanese planes

What’s the reason that trying to keep things real means you’ve had to exclude the flying boats? They were able to exist in Rise of Flight.