Originally posted by Sweet2th
Thank You WW for the clarification which i might add was way more simple than Fencer.Now if you could help the gurls find a pic of a RED ME-163 at the Airfield........
Because for someone(the germans) to want to keep a Highly desirable aircraft(ME-163) from being destroyed one would think to not paint it bright red.If this were all true, then why would they hide that RED ME-163 in the woods?
Yea hide it in the woods boys they will never see it in there.
For ye who is without a clue.
"On May 13, 1944, when 8th Air Force flew against oil targets in Western Poland, was selected as the day for the first sortie with the new Me 163 rocket-fighter.
As one of Germany's best glider-pilots before the war and a successful fighter pilot with 90 victories to his credit, it was natural that Wolfgang Spate was appointed commander of the secret Erprobungskommando 16 at Rechlin, who were responsible for testing the Me 163.
Of course Spate was the pilot who undertook the first ever mission in the 163. Entering the hanger that morning, Spate found that his 163 had been re-sprayed an overall red color. This made him irritated. But the guilty party, his own personal mechanics, said they thought it would perhaps bring luck to fly the first mission with an aircraft painted in the same manner as Baron Von Richtofen's famous WWI Fokker Triplane.
However the red color brought no luck. Twice during that first mission, Spate tried to intercept a pair of P-47s Both times the rocket engine of the Me 163 failed."
