262 with bomb in tow.

[lyric1]

This is not so much a wish but more of a a question to any one who knows how on earth did they hit targets with this set up?  http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/showphoto.php?photo=8689&cat=595

[Denholm]

No clue, just a guess. Radio guided?

[PFactorDave]

I'm sure that was just a little ride along set up for the pilot's kid.  Toward the end of the war, the Luftwaffe was short on pilots and had to allow new recruits to bring their kids to work to attract new flyers. 

[Lusche]

[Motherland]

No clue, just a guess. Radio guided?

That's what I was thinking, as well.

[lyric1]

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Are they bombs mounted as well on the belly?

[Babalonian]

Are they bombs mounted as well on the belly?

Nope, just the two engines and the rear landing gear is all I see in the first picture around where you'd expect to see bombs

[transam1]

The History channel had footage of JU-88's launching wire guided anti ship missiles. Maybe its the same idea.

[lyric1]

Nope, just the two engines and the rear landing gear is all I see in the first picture around where you'd expect to see bombs

The two black tubes just behind the landing gear in between the engines.

[colmbo]

It's just a bomb, they could aim like any other bomb.  You would know it's ballistic characteristics...release it at the right spot it goes where you want.

[LLogann]

That looks like it could be a glider bomb........  Start high and far, begin a gradual decent, fix on target, gain a little more speed and release the cable.  Glider bomb wing design was to maintain the target vector only, no adjustments could be made and wind would ruin the chance of a good drop by most of what the Luftwaffe had left....   Then again........ That could be a fuel tank.  

262 bombing was done by the KG 54, but details are so few it is tough to know for sure how they were bombing.

The black tubes are probably R4M rockets, making the photo a 262 A-1a/R-1.

[avionix]

I will go out on a limb here. 

Could it be a conventional bomb fitted with an aerodynamic wing to give some lift and then once on target, it would be dropped and the wing fall off and it acts conventionally again?

Sorry for the runon sentence.

[Serenity]

Then again........ That could be a fuel tank.

Ya know, thats just crazy enough to work! It would certainly extend the range of a 262 by at list a little bit... Any chances it IS a fuel tank?

[chris3]

moin

This was only a test program to find a save way to use the 262 as an attacker because they were afraid about the high speed she get in a dive. it was only a glide bomb not radio teleguidet or cabel. this test program failed and lately they dissident to use the 262 like they were made for ...as a fighter. but there are many more test variants for the example the 262 with a glass nose for the bombgunner. or the interceptor variant with to mounted 163 engine's on the turbines...

cu chris3

[macerxgp]

I'm sure that was just a little ride along set up for the pilot's kid.  Toward the end of the war, the Luftwaffe was short on pilots and had to allow new recruits to bring their kids to work to attract new flyers. 

A kid, towed not 30 feet behind two jet engines? 


I'm pretty sure that would scare away more recruits than it would attract.