Fantasy Airforce

[tigercat]

If you were the  defense minister of say a small country wth money no object and able to buy from any aircraft company in any country what would your airforce consist of in:

WW1
interwar
WW2

etc


What trainers, strategic bombers, tactical bombers ground attack aircraft, coastal command, recon, transport , fighter, bomber destroyers, long range figters air superiority fighters etc.. would you have

[Daryl J.]

Bristol Bakil used by the Isthmus of the Red Sea Independent Protectorate.     Essentially a Bristol Buckmaster modified for ground/sea attack as Shiek Bab el Ehr had gained power and threatened the whole of the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea.      And yes, it was not a Buckingham.   


Sir Peter....here's your sequel, you model airplane buff you.    

[Logan Hartke]

I actually gave this quite a bit of thought a few months ago and here's what I came up with.

Fighters
Spitfire             1938
Fw 187               1939
He 100               1939
P-38 Lightning       1940
P-51 Mustang         1941
Mosquito             1941
He 219               1943
He 280               1943
Me 262 Schwalbe      1944
P-80 Shooting Star   1945

Bombers
Ju 87 Stuka          1936
B-17 Flying Fortress 1938
Ju 88                1939
B-25 Mitchell        1941
Il-2 Sturmovik       1941
Pe-2 Peshka          1941
Lancaster            1942
A-26 Invader         1943
B-29 Superfortress   1944
Ar 234 Blitz         1944

Trainers and Transports
Bü 131 "Jungmann"    1935
Bf 108               1935
Anson                1936
DC-3/C-47 Skytrain   1936
AT-6/SNJ Texan       1937
Fi 156 Storch        1937
J-3/L-4 Cub          1938
307/C-75 Stratoliner 1940
C-46 Commando        1941
Ju 252               1942
Ju 290               1942
Ar 232               1943

Gliders
DFS 230              1938
Go 242               1942
CG-4A                1943
Ku-7                 1944
Ka 430               1944

Engines
A65/O-170
HM 504
As 10
R-985 Wasp Junior
R-1340 Wasp
R-1820 Cyclone
R-1830 Twin Wasp
Kinsei (Ha-33)
Merlin (V-1650)
R-2600 Twin Cyclone
R-2800 Double Wasp
R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone
HeS 30
I-40/J33

Armament
MG 15 7.92mm
MG 17 7.92mm
MG 81 7.92mm
MG 81Z 7.92mm
M2 Browning 12.7mm
Berezin UB 12.7mm
Oerlikon FFL 20mm
Berezin B-20 20mm
MK108 30mm
MK101 30mm
MK103 30mm
Vickers 40mm
Molins 6pdr
BK 7,5 cm

As you can see, it's pretty heavily dominated by British, American, and German types (fairly evenly split, too), but with notable Soviet and Japanese examples.  Interestingly, I have every single fighter (and many bombers) up until the He 219 powered by the Merlin.  It was a fantastic engine.

Cheers,

Logan

[tigercat]

Merlin powered 219  I think I have a 219in the stash.

[Logan Hartke]

I actually planned for the He 219 to have R-2800s.  Everything before that was Merlins, though.  I would probably have used some naval aircraft from my other list in the air force, though.

Cheers,

Logan