Agree.
Its a major problem getting the short end of the stick in a 90 degreee 5G 500 yard snapshot.*Pling* engine smoking and u know ur ded.
Goes for the Ta152 as well.
The 109 series was notorious for the fast engine seizure because of never installed stopvalves (right word?).Anyone know if such was installed in the Jumo's?
Julius Meimberg in a G10 december 1944:
" I repeated the procedure with a third flight; but this
time 1 got too close to the P-47 I was firing at, so that
pieces of the downed bird flew about my ears, and when I
pulled up I was trailing white smoke. Once again I lamented
the absence of a radiator shutoff valve. This time I de-
cided at once to bail out, for trying to descend to safety in
my crippled bird would have been hopeless as the sky was
now full of aircraft, all of them hostile. As well with a
damaged radiator I had little time; in only a few minutes a
piston would seize and that would be it; it just didn't work
without coolant."
danish
[This message has been edited by danish (edited 03-11-2001).]
