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Title: Did 234's and 262's operate from.........
Post by: SKurj on October 05, 2001, 01:30:00 PM

Grass fields?


SKurj

Title: Did 234's and 262's operate from.........
Post by: GRUNHERZ on October 05, 2001, 01:42:00 PM

Donno.

But there was a requirement during 262 development for the use of "Silber" fields. These fields needed to have paved runways. BTW one of the codenames for the 262 was "Silbervogel", silverbird.

Title: Did 234's and 262's operate from.........
Post by: Voss on October 05, 2001, 04:17:00 PM

Yes, Skurj, I believe they did!

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Title: Did 234's and 262's operate from.........
Post by: R4M on October 05, 2001, 04:43:00 PM

The Me262 not, AFAIK, but the Arado indeed did fly from grass fields (at least the recce version wich had a trolley for take off and skids for landing  ;))

Title: Did 234's and 262's operate from.........
Post by: Vermillion on October 05, 2001, 05:57:00 PM

R4M I would be really suprised if they operated from grass fields with the production models with the standard landing gears.

Title: Did 234's and 262's operate from.........
Post by: Voss on October 05, 2001, 06:07:00 PM

Sometime you should watch the Discovery series on Luftwaffe aircraft. I have seen footage of a 262 taking off from a grass field. Admittedly, it was the tail dragger, but still!...

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