I’d like a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, please!
And a good one, at that.
How about Martin B-26 Marauder?
Let’s see just how much of a “widowmaker” it is!
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I take your point - and agree with it. Your reasons for flying warbirds are my reasons, too, though I’d add the sheer pleasure of flying something that’s both characterful and high-performance, and meeting all its demands.
But in @Wilem35’s defense - Joe Coles, who runs the wonderful, original, irreverent Hush Kit aviation newsletter on Substack, writes a caution in his equally wonderful Hush Kit Book of Warplanes against being seduced by these wonderful machines to the extent that you forget what they were for. They’re beautiful killing machines. I’m no pacifist, but I’ll admit it gives me a little pause that my current favorite MSFS warbirds - the Blackbird Zero and the Flying Iron Bf-109 - were both instruments of aggressive warfare. (I’ll be happier when the Flying Iron 2024-native Spitfire shows up - I like its mission better).
Back on topic - given my personal passion for photo reconnaissance - something that goes back to my first reading of Flight to Arras - I’ll be happy with anything that fits that mission. A Flying Iron F-5 variant of the P-38 would be nice.
And… Canberra, anyone?
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Well said, thanks.
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To share my thoughts. It wasn’t about you.
Gimme an early-model side-by-side RAF EE Canberra, and a 2026 NASA Martin WB-57**, and I’ll be super-happy.
** …with a prominently labeled landing gear handle!
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One of my tops - see my opening post 
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PR9 though - surely? Spitfire Mk XIX with that pokey old 37l Griffon up front and, not to harp on, a Mosquito!
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PR9 - yes! (Apologies - had trouble finding a usable picture of one via Google image search).
Maybe a revived Just Flight one?
And yes to the Spitfire Mk. XIX and the PR Mossie, too!
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I would love to have a Canberra PR9, Spitfire PR Mk XIX, and a Mosquito PR34, especially if they were developed by Just Flight (the Canberra) and Flying Iron (the Spit and the Mossie).
But surely a stable of 30s, 40s, and 50s PR race horses would be incomplete without one of the last and fastest with piston engines, the DH Sea Hornet PR22.
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Agree!
Sea Hornet, Tigercat and Bearcat would make a nice “last of the breed” package.
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A 26 Invader P 3C Orion TBD 1 Devastator but what I would really like is a X wing that you could fly threw Beggers Canon.
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Just found out about this beast doing some reading, what a cool bird.
Wasn’t this another ‘Cold War copy’ of a US project?
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Probably, just like most aircraft that ended up being developed in that part of the world. Spygate! 
Not disimilar to the MScenery debacle today 
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Always liked the look of the su47 over the American forward sweep design
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I assume you’re aware of the Virtavia Tigercat and just not happy with it?
Not very detailed, but, it works, and for me it’s fun. Let’s say better than nothing, and the F7F is one of my favorites as a plane.
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No, actually it had slipped my mind. Thanks for the reminder - will take a look at it.
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