My best was a collection planes from the Wright Bros. Kittyhawk up to Jafo's favorite, the F-105. They were 72nd. scale and at one time I had 100 of them hanging from the ceiling in my room. There were Russian, Japanese, German, Italian, British, French, American. Just about all models. Then I went on to building the big 32nd. scale. I had three favorites...ME-109...P-51...and a FA-18 Hornet. That I modified the shit out of.

This is a fun hobby, but hardly unique.  I went to a reenactment of an Okinawa assault on a Japanese pillbox, and they had an operational Stuart tank, halftrack, and 60mm mortar.  But none of that held a candle to the flamethrower--quite literally.  Nothing was nearly as impressive as the guy spraying a can of whoop-a** on the pillbox.  Only thing missing were the screaming Japs running out of the pillbox alight--who incidentally the Japs looked strangely an awful lot like Mexicans, by the way.  

And right down the road from me we have a WW2 commemorative air force.  They do air shows flying a B-17, B-24, Hellcat, and a Zero.  However, if anyone builds & flies a replica of a C-7 or C-17, I'll be impressed.

P-47's were great! Originally, watch jafo correct me, they were supposed to be fighters but were better suited to ground support. Big, bulky but packed a helluva punch. Another fave, actually two....P-38 Lightning and P-61 Black Widow. I liked the P-61 more I think because there was one variant that boasted four cannons, two to a side plus a mix of machine guns in the nose. Not to mention the two turrets it had. Each with four 50 calibers.

If I offended, I apologize.  I lump it in the same category as playing WW2 computer games as the Nazis and machinegunning down the hapless Yanks.  It's all in good fun.

No offense taken, just pointing out that's a topic that *could* easily offend.

Oh, i loved the P-38, it's looks alone are enough!!!

My favortite WWII planes, in no order..

Spitfire...(a bit of a cliche to say that these days, since everyone liked 'em, but w/e)
P-51
Lanc
P-40 (close to my fav)
Bristol Beaufighter

Edit - How could i forget the F4U!!! I have two of these, one resin the other a limited edition die cast one, that remains boxed!

Yeah--but even though it's flawed the Nexus Six still really shows promise.

P-38s are nice.

And gotta love the Sturmoviks

Republic had a knack of building one thing but ending up with something else...both the Thunderbolt and Thunderchief in particular were BIG [really big], heavy....solid...and functional.  They were known to be able to take a lot of damage  which is why they were suited to ground support/attack.

The 'boffins' were curious about what stress the Thuds were actually put under during sorties over Vietnam so the installed specific G-force logging equipment....they were intended to handle -4 to +8 ... the usual sortof thing .... but one of them recorded 10.6 ....bugging out after an attack....

Spitfire MK IV or V, I forget which one, had a four bladed prop and wing mounted cannons. There was also one that had the wing tips squared off instead of rounded. Played havoc with the FW-190's. Then came the Tempest, bigger and heavier and the Typhoon, also another heavy. One thing that always got my curiosity going the Gloster Meteor. Twin engine jet yet, though it was a contemporary it, to my knowledge never saw combat. Always wondered how it would stack up against an ME-262.

Trivia: What propeller driven plane broke the sound barrier in late WWII.

Trivia #2: What propeller driven plane went through a brick wall and sustained very little damage.

None.

For the same reason there is a very finite limitation to the maximum speed of a helicopter....the first thing that approaches mach is the prop blade....and subsequently loses lift/thrust.  Mach 1 is the effective 'brick wall' for prop aircraft....

Actually it was a P-47 that attained that speed in a dive and it was a P-47 that went through a brick wall.

Chuck Yeager might get a bit upset about that....

The P-47 attaining it is folk-lore and cannot be proven as the airframe is purely sub-sonic and thus would be uncontrollable trans-sonic.... in other words "IF" a pilot attempted that in a dive he is now dead.

Compression-stall on a prop prevents it getting TO mach, let alone past it....

One of the 'fun things' about FSX [the flight sim] is you can artificially crank up the power [speed] of an aircraft and some are so well modelled if you push mach in an airframe not intended to get there the control surfaces DO invert...ie ... nose down harder to pull out of a dive.

Quite 'spooky'...

I havent used a flight sim in a while. the last one i really got into was F-15 Strike Eagke II and that was a miroprose release on the Amiga! I prefer combat flight sims, but nothing ive looked at these days suits me, i'd want FSX but combat.

Are there many mods for FSX Jafo?

Er....in a word.....'squillions'.

Just about every plane ever built....and quite a few that weren't.

I have a screenie of landing Thunderbird 2 at Tulla airport somewhere.....

Extra-detailed scenery is available for just about the whole planet [and the moon...for that matter]...though I've only gone for Melbourne airport...and Essendon airport...and NY [Manhattan] - just for fun.....can't land on the Intrepid tho....not a hard-point.