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Offline sethipus

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2009, 12:40:58 AM »
Quote from: Motherland on May 10, 2009, 07:29:09 PM
Could you imagine trying to check your 6 in that thing? :lol
At its speed, why would you need to?   :rock
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Offline frank3

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2009, 05:17:17 AM »
Would be a pain bailing out, with the engine running  :huh
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Offline Larry

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2009, 06:01:54 AM »
Quote from: frank3 on May 11, 2009, 05:17:17 AM
Would be a pain bailing out, with the engine running  :huh

If I'm not mistaken it was one of the first planes that ever had an ejection seat.
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Offline frank3

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2009, 06:22:59 AM »
Pretty clever! Otherwise you'd be sucked in that big hole behind you straight away  :D
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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2009, 10:21:03 AM »
Ugh no.  Props before jets.  :aok  Nuff said.
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Offline Clone155

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #20 on: May 11, 2009, 01:27:22 PM »
Quote from: frank3 on May 11, 2009, 05:17:17 AM
Would be a pain bailing out, with the engine running  :huh
:lol
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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #21 on: May 11, 2009, 05:23:29 PM »
Quote from: Larry on May 10, 2009, 07:14:01 PM
Iv always wondered what the big arrow on the nose was for. Does anyone know?



  Larry,the red arrow was a JG1 insignia,JG1 was tasked with proving the 162 as an operational A/C in may of 45 at or around Leck.
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Offline trigger2

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2009, 05:53:04 PM »
Quote from: Clone155 on May 10, 2009, 01:08:36 AM
Why not? Heck, if we have other rare planes, why not have a cool one like this? It looks so sexy!

I even hear rumors that it was stealth capable  :O

Well, the mossy was stealth in WWII, why do they still pop on dar? Might see an increase of mossy flights if they didn't. ;) Or hell, why not the HO 229 Flying Wing, it didn't see combat, but it was stealth capable AND was designed to be long range. :D
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Offline frank3

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2009, 04:58:06 AM »
Quote from: trigger2 on May 12, 2009, 05:53:04 PM
Well, the mossy was stealth in WWII, why do they still pop on dar? Might see an increase of mossy flights if they didn't. ;) Or hell, why not the HO 229 Flying Wing, it didn't see combat, but it was stealth capable AND was designed to be long range. :D

Do you have any proof for that? Just because they were partially made of wood, they wouldn't show up on the radar?
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Offline Larry

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #24 on: May 13, 2009, 05:58:08 AM »
There are reports that because there was less metal in the mossi that its radar blimp was smaller.
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Offline BaDkaRmA158Th

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #25 on: May 13, 2009, 05:59:08 AM »
They showed up on radar, problem was by the time the germans got the heads up, engines hot and altitude, the mossies were gone...long gone..WAY gone.
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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #26 on: May 13, 2009, 06:31:38 AM »
Quote from: Larry on May 13, 2009, 05:58:08 AM
There are reports that because there was less metal in the mossi that its radar blimp was smaller.

radar don't work like that. . .
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Offline Larry

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #27 on: May 13, 2009, 07:02:17 AM »
Quote from: Ruah on May 13, 2009, 06:31:38 AM
radar don't work like that. . .


Then please tell me how radar 'work'?
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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #28 on: May 13, 2009, 09:04:37 PM »
from what I understand the mosquito gave a fairly large signiture on the radar but I can't qualify that statement right now because I'm busy looking busy at work.
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Offline Pannono

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Re: I like salamanders, don't you?
« Reply #29 on: May 13, 2009, 09:35:35 PM »
Quote from: frank3 on May 11, 2009, 05:17:17 AM
Would be a pain bailing out, with the engine running  :huh
Hehe literally
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