Picture This...

[Double T]

If you took a P-51 Mustang and added the eliptical wing from a Spitfire... you've got the "Must-Fire."

Blend the best elements of the Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat with the Focke-Wulf190 and you've got the "Wild-Wulf." (An Fw190 with folding-wings?)

How about a Merlin-engined B-24 Liberator? We could call it the "Merlinator."

In the last scenario, take a Lockheed P-38 Lightning and replace those Allison engines with P&W radials. (I don't know what you'd call it... besides ugly.)

Tim

[GregP]

How about a Spitang? :D

[Corsarius]

quote:Originally posted by Double T
In the last scenario, take a Lockheed P-38 Lightning and replace those Allison engines with P&W radials. (I don't know what you'd call it... besides ugly.)


No, but they'd call the person who did it a Pratt.

[Ricky]

quote:Originally posted by Double T

In the last scenario, take a Lockheed P-38 Lightning and replace those Allison engines with P&W radials. (I don't know what you'd call it... besides ugly.)
Neither do I, but I'd like to see what Lightning's forum name would be!:D

[Mark J]

Hmmmmmm

Big fat noisy lightning......must be......


THUNDER.......


cheers:)

[Lightning]

Hi All,

Double T:
I've seen an a drawing of an actual proposal for a "navalized" Lightning. It had P&W radials. You're right--it was ugly.

Ricky:
What a dilemma! I might have had to choose "Mossie".:)

Mark J:
I'm sure I would have clapped something together.;)

Regards,
Thund... ,oops, Lightning

[DoBravery]

quote:[i]
In the last scenario, take a Lockheed P-38 Lightning and replace those Allison engines with P&W radials. (I don't know what you'd call it... besides ugly.)


One "Rad Rod"

Personally, I'd rather have a P-38 with the same powerplant of a Tempest II. But then again, that's just my Two Cents.

[DoBravery]

You know why there is all this British resentment for the P-38. Not becuase of the greatness of the Mossie. No. It's because they can't stand the fact that someone should dare name a plane after a weather phenomena other than them.
;)

[Kutscha]

quote:Originally posted by DoBravery

You know why there is all this British resentment for the P-38. Not becuase of the greatness of the Mossie. No. It's because they can't stand the fact that someone should dare name a plane after a weather phenomena other than them.
;)


Naw, the Americans just wanted to get in on the naming of planes after weather phenomena so they could use for an ugly plane.:D[:p];)

[WarBirdMan]

So if u combine a C-47Dakota with a Catalina u get a 'Dakalina',right?As in a Dakota with a boat underbelly!;)

[Double T]

WarBirdMan:
By JOVE, you've got it!!
Good one...

Tim

[Double T]

Lightning:
If you want ugly...
how about a radial-engined Spitfire?
Yech!
The Spatfire?

Tim

[WarBirdMan]

Spatfire,lol.That's nice T.But what about a Sturmovik,with a radial engine!A 'STARmovik'(as in star shaped engine):D

[Lightning]

Hi DoBravery & Kutscha,

Actually, the Lightning was named by the British--not the Americans. The original name proposed by the Americans was the "Atlanta". I like "Lightning" a lot better;
don't you?

Regards,
Lightning

[Lightning]

Hi Double T,

Radial Spitfire? How about calling it the "Fatfire"?

Some other thoughts:

B-24 with liquid-cooled engines: the "Liquidator"
B-26 with twin tails: the "Morerudder"
P-61 with its windscreens blacked-out: the "black Window"
P-39 with rotary wing: the "airacobter"
P-47 with a Volkswagen engine: the "Thunderbug"
PBY-5A with tracked landing gear: the "Catapillar"
C-69 (heavily overloaded): the "Constipation"

Regards,
Lightning

[DoBravery]

quote:Originally posted by Lightning

Hi DoBravery & Kutscha,

Actually, the Lightning was named by the British--not the Americans. The original name proposed by the Americans was the "Atlanta". I like "Lightning" a lot better;
don't you?

Regards,
Lightning


Thanks Lightning. My outlook on WWII planes is in harmony now. Everything is in perspective. It all makes sense.


What do you call a de Havilland Tiger Moth with another wing added?


One UGLY MOTHer FOKKER!


:D

[Double T]

Lightning:
You are MOST definitely on a-roll.
Good ones guys.

A radial-engined Mosquito?
The De Haviland Burrito.

Tim

[Ricky]

A Spitfire with a Bf109 wing - a Spitschitt...

[WarBirdMan]

A Macchi202 wit a radial and double-winged...What else:a 'Wacki'!:)

[Trexx]

quote:Originally posted by Ricky

A Spitfire with a Bf109 wing - a Spitschitt...


You win. Let's take a vote.

[Lightning]

Hi guys,

Some more:

B-17 rigged for gas attacks: the "Fuming Fartress"
P-38 weighing only five thousand pounds: the "Lightening"
F8F completely stripped down: the "Barecat"
C-54 used for electronic surveillance: the "Spymaster"
AT-6 operated by the IRS: the "Taxman"
PB4Y used as a secret listening post: the "Private Ear"

Please forgive me. I lost control. I had to do it! Don't you understand? I just had to!

Regards,
Lightning

[Trexx]

quote:Originally posted by Lightning

Hi guys,

Some more:

B-17 rigged for gas attacks: the "Fuming Fartress"
P-38 weighing only five thousand pounds: the "Lightening"
F8F completely stripped down: the "Barecat"
C-54 used for electronic surveillance: the "Spymaster"
AT-6 operated by the IRS: the "Taxman"
PB4Y used as a secret listening post: the "Private Ear"


Please forgive me. I lost control. I had to do it! Don't you understand? I just had to!

Regards,
Lightning

Cyber spanking you now...

HA!

[Ricky]

Lightning - are sitting up at night with a list of plane names and a pencil?[:p]