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Thread #59746   Message #956462
Posted By: Little Hawk
20-May-03 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Favourite World War 1 Fighter Plane
Subject: RE: BS: Favourite World War 1 Fighter Plane
Hey, Neil, that's the Dewoitine 520, I think. It was a beautiful fighter, quite comparable to the Spitfire and the Bf-109. Tamiya has a superb 1/48 kit of it out, and those French colors are really something to see.

The Italians had some lovely planes too. Their C.R.42 was probably the best biplane fighter of them all (debatable), and the Macchi 202/205 series were gorgeous, as were the Fiat G.55's, all built around the German Daimler Benz engine that powered the Messerschmitt fighters as well.

Those Italian camouflage schemes are hell to airbrush, though!

Then you've got some very stylish Russian fighters...like the Mig-3, Yak-3 to Yak 9 series, and the La-5N and La-7. They were very good airplanes. Dig those patriotic slogans. Amazing how the Germans succeeded in turning most of the Russian people into willing and determined soldiers for that cold-blooded murderer, Joe Stalin...and it took them less than a year to do it.

- LH