Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: OntosMk1 on June 09, 2006, 10:09:08 AM
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Someone say hairdryer?
Link (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7620890100890480)
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I found that really hard to watch. I kept expecting the wing tips to break off the way they do on my 262 flights in the MA. lol.
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Now that was amazing. I didn't know they still had a flyable Me262. Gosh just think if those went into major production, and you had half the Luftwaffe flying 262s or other jet fighters. Amazing, and if u looked closely you could see the stall slats move in and out. Thanks for the video. :aok
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I think that is one of the reproductions that was produced. There is a company that is making six exact replicas with modern engines and safer gear. One was sold to someone in germany. I do not remember the web site, but look up me262 project on your search engine
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There are several flight-worthy 262s still around. One in particular is a 2-seater.
I'm still waiting for it to cache, but I've seen the take-off run. All I can say is that so far this thing has our poor AH2 model beat for acceleration, big time!
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Go to stormbirds.com
It was one of their reproductions that flew over Germany, and not an original.
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cool thanks 4 the post :aok
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the new ones use slightly bigger (about 10% more powerful) engines with afterburner capability, iirc
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That one has GE engines, otherwise it is rebuilt one from original parts (or based on the design), the one and only flying, I believe. Although I might be wrong (as usual).. I was there in Berlin when that one flew, can't complain. It was pretty amazing. Although I must say that I liked the 109G6 better. The sound of that DB... :)
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I've heard people call the A340 a hairdryer but what does the term mean??:confused:
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Originally posted by RAIDER14
I've heard people call the A340 a hairdryer but what does the term mean??:confused:
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Originally posted by RAIDER14
I've heard people call the A340 a hairdryer but what does the term mean??:confused:
Well historically it is reported to have been used as a hairdryer but that practice was not authorized by the luftwaffe as it tended to extract the hair's natural oils leading to split ends and was considered "unhealthy" for a properly coiffed pilot...then of course there were the occasional hair fires. This problem only became worse when they experimented with the first afterburners.
Mace
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Who was the lucky pilot to fly that? :confused:
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Originally posted by Krusty
There are several flight-worthy 262s still around.
Just to clear things up - none of the original 262's are airworthy, it is highly unlikely that an original 262 will ever fly again. The airworthy ones are all replicas.
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Notice the wing-slats popping aout about 2 minutes into the video? :D
I love seeing little details like that.
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Pretty cool. I didn't know that there were replica 262s flying.
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Originally posted by Furball
Just to clear things up - none of the original 262's are airworthy, it is highly unlikely that an original 262 will ever fly again. The airworthy ones are all replicas.
Furball I don't think you're right on that one. The discovery wings channel has had at least one documentary where an original 262 was shown to be flight worthy. The one in question was a 2-seater, but they mentioned that there were "several" -- not many, but several.
This from a few years ago, from memory.
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Krusty
Afaik only 10 WW2 262s exist :
1 in Germany
2 in Czech Rep. (Czech built)
4 in USA
1 in UK
1 in Australia,
1 in South Africa
The airworthy examples one hears/sees of are American built, powered by J-85 engines.
As captkaos said check out http://www.stormbirds.com/project/general/introduction.htm
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The one in Germany would then be the one on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munchen?
And the Replicas are the only ones I've heard about being flyworthy. Not surprizing, - the original powerplant was rather naughty ;)
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Originally posted by Angus
...- the original powerplant was rather naughty ;)
And started with a pull cord like a lawnmower...