TOPGUN1991
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Just for fun: What is your favorite / or in your opinion the very BEST fighter plane the Navy or Marines have EVER taken to the skies?
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What is (in your opinion) the BEST fighter plane that has EVER served in the Navy / Marine Corps?
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TOPGUN1991
Naval Aviation Hopeful!
Really? So... What is YOURS?
Taking a chance on being stupid (I'm already ugly)! Breaking it down to 2, prop & jet...
Prop: Grumman F6F "Hellcat".
Jet: Chance Vought F8U "Crusader".
JMHO
*Now mind your manners, kiddies!
BzB
Prop: Grumman F6F "Hellcat".
Jet: Chance Vought F8U "Crusader".
JMHO
*Now mind your manners, kiddies!
BzB
It's not like I have experience in either of these, but the two I'd give a first born to fly would have been the F-8 and the RA-5C. You can't say this about a lot of jets, but they look sexy and fast even parked on the ground. I almost missed my takeoff clearance from Sherman field last month while drooling over an A-5 sitting within view of the hold short.
The "best?" What are the criteria? Actual performance? Well, the newest one is probably the best, so lets just hand it to the newest one: the F/A-18E/F. I'd be willing to bet that all else being the same, it would defeat its predecessors. Are we done now?
Are you talking about ability relative to its opponents at the time? Length of service? Drool factor? These things can get silly, and are inherently meaningless.
Are you talking about ability relative to its opponents at the time? Length of service? Drool factor? These things can get silly, and are inherently meaningless.
Crap...part of being here is making a stand and defending it, so here goes:
Given the Navy/Marine SHARED mission of CAS, I'd probably have to vote for the "F4" family...Grumman F4Fs from the "Cactus Air Force" on Guadalcanal, the Vought F4U Corsair (and all of its variants...A4U in the case of VMA-323 "Death Rattlers" for example...) in Korea, and the McDonnel-Douglas F-4 family of Marine fighter/bomber jets that flew out of Chu Lai, Da Nang, yadda yadda yadda...in Viet Nam.
Given the Navy/Marine SHARED mission of CAS, I'd probably have to vote for the "F4" family...Grumman F4Fs from the "Cactus Air Force" on Guadalcanal, the Vought F4U Corsair (and all of its variants...A4U in the case of VMA-323 "Death Rattlers" for example...) in Korea, and the McDonnel-Douglas F-4 family of Marine fighter/bomber jets that flew out of Chu Lai, Da Nang, yadda yadda yadda...in Viet Nam.
Best purely ACM machine was probably the F-8 Crusader, but the best all-around fighter would have to be the F-14B (big engines) Tomcat. As much as I hate to say it, it wasn't the F-4 Phantom - had to be fought just so, mostly in the vertical, and it had no gun. JMHO.
1) Fun on an aviation forum? Never heard of it!
2) You be crazy, started all these threads like this. The mods don't quite know what to do with you yet, but you make a mistake and they be all up on you like a fat kid on butter.
3) My favorite plane (makes me jealous that the marines get to have all the fun).
^^^Weirdo.
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Yeah, man, this is Kettle. . .have you seen the aircraft I fly?