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Spitfire MKXIV or Mustang P-51d which one prefer?

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  1. Arvin Grajau

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    What aircraft do you prefer and why?
     
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    HP Spitfire 2035 Mustang 1720
    top speed 721kph 703kph
    climb rate per min 5,200feet 3,475feet
     
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    I'm a Fokker Dr-1 person but have a soft spot for the Spitfire thanks to my English grandmother

    Of course these will destroy all of them
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    and of course this will destroy all your jets :p
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    Being of Italian design, it could fly backwards :p
     
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    What's this got to do with Ferrari cars?????
     
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    you'd be a Goose to go up in one of them :p
     
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    and the lifeboats were easy to accidently fall into :p
     
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    Enzo experimented with a 27 litre V12 to try and get one of those fat, heavy FEOHOS to move
     
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    The Mustang was a far superior plane.
     
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    ok, you win, any Natwest trained funds manager can do that :p
     
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    Trying to stay on topic OUT ---> :mad:
     
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    Glen never gets into the spirit of the event
     
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    If you compare models to models its very close.
    I've read articles were pilots whom flew both said similar things ie
    Mustang had range longe range escort aircraft
    Spitfire had a better climb rate
    speed of both similar
    Dive Mustang better
    Spitfire better turning circle
    Roll rate Spitfire
    In a dogfight the Spitfire.
    All comes back to personel taste.
     
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    I love both but there's something about the P-51D that makes it one of m favourite aircraft of all time.
     
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    both winners,I like the Spitfire for it being British,but the P51 just has that tough look about it,more modern looking plane?
     
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  23. RMV

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    Absolutely! Two of the best, no doubt.

    Yes, I think the P-51D is a seriously beautiful aircraft, which doesn't hurt its overall appeal.

    A friend's dad regularly flies the RAAF museum P-51 and has also flown a spitfire, and from memory he prefers the Mustang.
     
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  24. Arvin Grajau

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    my godfather was killed in his own P51 in the late 60s at an airshow.
     
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  25. moretti

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    Jeff Trappett ??
     
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