Best Fighter Aircraft of WW2?

[Newbie.]

What was the bets plane of WW2?

I vote the Hurricane series.

[HyperSniper999]

Me 262because of its jet technology.

[Seeme]

To easy, the German Jet planes. Twice as faster as any other plane, it would probable win all air battle if it was produced later. Sadly(Or gratefully) it was produced in 1945, to late to do much.

[Paciat]

There was a TV show "Top ten fighters" and Mustang won (becouse US won the war).
My personal favorite is FW-190. Many Japanese designes and British Hawker Tempests with radial engines were based on this plane. FW-190A was better than Spitfire V and as good as Spitfire IX - the most numerous Spit produced.
FW-190D and later Ta-152 could fight on equal terms with any allied WWII fighter exept Gloster Meteor.
I like the Gloster Meteor too. It was intercepting V1s, it was used in Korea, it has beaten a world speed record. Me-262 probably could do the same thing if equiped with British postwar jet engines, but Germans couldnt produce a realieble jet engine...
Gloster Meteor Jet "Britannia" Sets World Speed Record 1945

[SublimeSnugz]

Yeah im with the jetplanes aswell its like comparing a Ferrari with a Fiat punto...

May i suggest something newbie? ive noticed that you allways have 100 diffrent choices in your "best of" threads, would be nice if you could keep it to fx 2x per country and leave all those unimportant vehicles/guns nobody knows anyway...

[Seeme]

I agree.

[Paciat]

Yeah im with the jetplanes aswell its like comparing a Ferrari with a Fiat punto...

May i suggest something newbie? ive noticed that you allways have 100 diffrent choices in your "best of" threads, would be nice if you could keep it to fx 2x per country and leave all those unimportant vehicles/guns nobody knows anyway...

I like when I have a real choice but arent some of these planes prototypes. Not all of them were mass produced.
...and who will choose I-16 for the worlds best fighter. 

[SublimeSnugz]

Yeah im with the jetplanes aswell its like comparing a Ferrari with a Fiat punto...

May i suggest something newbie? ive noticed that you allways have 100 diffrent choices in your "best of" threads, would be nice if you could keep it to fx 2x per country and leave all those unimportant vehicles/guns nobody knows anyway...

I like when I have a real choice but arent some of these planes prototypes. Not all of them were mass produced.
...and who will choose I-16 for the worlds best fighter. 

true. Newbie ill suggest that you find some worthy contestors when you make such a thread ... fx you filter those unimportant planes away. if you gather a couple of the best planes from each country that was used in the war i think it would be a little more interesting ... and please use units under same category, that actually have a chance competeing with the others ...

[Seeme]

We should get rid of the Jet planes, its kinda unfair.

[SublimeSnugz]

/agree

[GodlikeDennis]

Aircraft technology changed so much over the course of WWII that it's pretty much impossible to narrow it down to one. Several of those were the best of their time but new technology phased them out. They also belong to different categories. For instance, the Jap zero was the best carrier-borne fighter at the time until the corsair was designed. The mosquito was a light bomber similar to a stuka wasn't it? Doesn't really fit in with the categories.

If I had to choose a favourite, I would say the noble hurricane (please edit your spelling). This was the plane that truly saved Britain and possibly all of Europe.

True story: My friend's family co-designed the mosquito.

[Seeme]

Yep, the hurricane sure did save England. But if Germany had those fancy Jet planes do you think Germany would get the Air? Heck, they beat any plane in WW2. If they developed this plan in 1943 or even in early 1944 I think ww2 would be different then today.

[GodlikeDennis]

The Battle of Britain took place in 1941, and the luftwaffe was demolished. Goering didn't push for the jet fighters hard enough, and even if they had arrived in 1943 the bombing raids would still have had the same impact when they were nighttime raids. Remember, the Germans didn't have radar which was the most important aerial development of the war. The Russians were an industrial superpower, so even if only a few allied raids got through on German infrastructure, the reds still would have overpowered Germany. Those experimentals that Hitler was buying time for would never have defeated the red tide.

EDIT: And I loled at Yaks being on the list.

[Akalonor]

There was a TV show "Top ten fighters" and Mustang won (becouse US won the war).

Same with most others WWII , didnt the Sherman win that one ? Or was it the T-34 ? anyways Panther shouldve won , but I doubt it was even in the top 10.

[Werwolf]

I'm surprised that I was the only one who chose the heavily-armed, multi-role Messerschmitt Bf. 109... history's highest-scoring aces of all time flew in them (e.g. Erich Hartmann "The Blond Knight" with Karaya One), including non-German aces. The Allies had to constantly redesign their fighters (esp. during the Battle of Britain) in order to keep up with the competitive Bf. 109. Aside from being highly automated (and thus easy to use), they also provided a lot of safety precautions for the pilots who flew in them.

"The Messer was a very well designed plane. First, it had an engine of an inverted type, so it could not be knocked out from below. It also had two water radiators with a cut-off system: if one radiator leaked you could fly on the second or close both down and fly at least five minutes more. The pilot was protected by armour-plate from the back, and the fuel tank was also behind armour. Our planes had fuel tanks in the centre of their wings: that's why our pilot got burnt. What else did I like about the Messer? It was highly automatic and thus easy to fly. It also employed an electrical pitch regulator, which our planes didn't have. Our propeller system, with variable pitch was hydraulic, making it impossible to change pitch without engine running. If, God forbid, you turned off the engine at high pitch, it was impossible to turn the propeller and was very hard to start the engine again. Finally, the German ammo counter was also a great thing." - Soviet aircraft machine-gun technician Viktor M. Sinaisky