a nice perk plane

[humble]

Was looking at the web link posted in the FW 200 thread. One look at the He 280 and WOW...damm glad the germans were so smug in 41. That is a sweet looking ride, if it flys 1/2 as nicely as it looks it would of swept the skies in 43.

[RAM]

 

Originally posted by humble:
Was looking at the web link posted in the FW 200 thread. One look at the He 280 and WOW...damm glad the germans were so smug in 41. That is a sweet looking ride, if it flys 1/2 as nicely as it looks it would of swept the skies in 43.

The He280 was the direct competition to the Me262. It was found lacking compared with the messerchmitt and so its development was stopped.

Bring the Me262...THAT is a perk plane  

[juzz]

   

With the new and more powerful engines, I wanted to test the top speed of the aircraft at an altitude of 3,000m (9,843ft), and decided on a route Pressburg - Wien. I was accelerating nicely, when the aircraft suddenly started an oscillating yaw. Increasing the speed only increased the violence of the motion. Looking rearward, I noticed that the two vertical fins were moving alternately up and down, causing the rear fuselage to produce torsion oscillations in the longitudinal axis. I decided not to increase speed any further under these circumstances, and aborted the flight test. My colleage, Dipl. Ing. Julius Schuck, who had moved from Rostock to Wien for the trials of the He 219 night fighter, later performed a flight on the He 280 V2, and made the same diagnosis. Ground evaluation showed that I had reached a True Air Speed (TAS) of about 800km/h (497mph). The aircraft was nowhere near safe in this state, and it was clear that the whole of the tail section required redesign and reconstruction. This would inevitably take more time and testing and, in the meantime, the Me 262 successfully continued its test series. Before long it was clear that Messerschmitt had won the race, and the development of the He 280 was cancelled in favour of the Me 262.

Fritz Shäfer, Test Pilot and Master Engineer at the Heinkel Trial Centre.

[This message has been edited by juzz (edited 08-04-2000).]

[humble]

Guess it looks better than it flew  

[pzvg]

Hehe yep, just ask Northrop about planes that looked good (Flying Wing) but didn't pan out in the air.
(pzvg rolls out 55 gal drum of Avgas,opens top)
For those wanting the 262, how long do you think the average AH runway is? and is that long enough?
Anybody got a light? > )

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pzvg- "5 years and I still can't shoot"

[Fishu]

Nicer perk plane would be He-162, haven't seen that in too many games..


If full loaded B-17 can takeoff, why wouldn't Me262 also?  

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by Fishu:
Nicer perk plane would be He-162, haven't seen that in too many games..


If full loaded B-17 can takeoff, why wouldn't Me262 also?  

Because on the ground the Me262 accelerates like a Lycoming four-cyclinder on a P-51  

Methinks LANDING is the problem with AH runways, not taking off...since the 262 would prolly take twice that amount of runway to land then what it took off it. Bet that would make Hristo happy if he augered every time he tried to land  

- Jig

[Kieren]

Answer?

Terrain-Editor.  

[LuckyDay]

I thought we couldn't cross grid lines with objects, i.e stretching a runway...