Greatest American Fighter Aircraft Ever?

YellowSnow

Relative to its peers, of course.

biak1

P-51 Mustang

In the Mt. Rushmore of elite American aircraft you’d have to strongly consider putting the Mustang up there four times.

YellowSnow

P-51 Mustang

biak1 said:

In the Mt. Rushmore of elite American aircraft you’d have to strongly consider putting the Mustang up there four times.

There’s really nothing like it in the history of America fighters in terms of so thoroughly outclassing the competition. And to think it didn’t even start out that way.

HFNY

P-51 Mustang

No honorable mention for the P-38?

dflea

HFNY said:

No honorable mention for the P-38?

HM for the photo of Dick Bong as well.

His name was Dick Bong and he shot motherfuckers down by the boatload. How cool is that?

YellowSnow

P-51 Mustang

dflea said:

HFNY said:

No honorable mention for the P-38?

HM for the photo of Dick Bong as well.

His name was Dick Bong and he shot motherfuckers down by the boatload. How cool is that?

P-38s also shot down Yamamoto in 1943.

YellowSnow

P-51 Mustang

HFNY said:

No honorable mention for the P-38?

Was trying to leave enough space for the jets.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

F-14 Tomcat

I voted for the Tomcat solely based on Tim Cruise’s experiences in Top Gun.

Swaye

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

P-51 and the F-22 are the only planes that in their era completely and overwhelmingly outclassed every other fighter of their era's. I went with the F-22 simply so I could give a Fuck Off Row Peter Puffer to Rowboat for not including it. Either are acceptable answers.

Moving beyond the truly overpowered fighters, my favorites on the list are the are of course the F-18 (duh), the Corsiar and the Hellcat because killing Japs was cool, and the Phantom because that big brick was a hell of a machine.

YellowSnow

P-51 Mustang

Swaye said:

P-51 and the F-22 are the only planes that in their era completely and overwhelmingly outclassed every other fighter of their era's. I went with the F-22 simply so I could give a Fuck Off Row Peter Puffer to Rowboat for not including it. Either are acceptable answers.

Moving beyond the truly overpowered fighters, my favorites on the list are the are of course the F-18 (duh), the Corsiar and the Hellcat because killing Japs was cool, and the Phantom because that big brick was a hell of a machine.

I wanted to do F-22 but we? Only made like 200 of them.

YellowSnow

P-51 Mustang

So I used to have a season pass to the Museum Flight which a great collection of WWII war birds...

Corsair
P-40
P-47
P-38
P-51
Mildcat
Bf 109
Spitfire
Zero
B-29
B-17

Then Covid shut it all down. My kids fucking loved that place and it was the best indoor playground in Seattle.