Your favorite WWII Aircraft

mako88sb · 02-21-13, 09:40 PM

Ever since I saw Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, I've been a huge fan of the B-25 in all it's forms.

I was pretty amazed a few years ago to find out about the Ryan FR-1 Fireball built just prior to the end of WW2. Pretty neat reading about how the test pilots would pull up beside a conventional aircraft, shut off the radial engine and then proceed to pull away from the astonished pilot of the other aircraft using the jet engine.

02-21-13, 09:40 PM	#11
mako88sb XO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 423 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ever since I saw Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, I've been a huge fan of the B-25 in all it's forms. I was pretty amazed a few years ago to find out about the Ryan FR-1 Fireball built just prior to the end of WW2. Pretty neat reading about how the test pilots would pull up beside a conventional aircraft, shut off the radial engine and then proceed to pull away from the astonished pilot of the other aircraft using the jet engine.