Originally posted by AG Sachsenberg:
Besides that it would be meat in the MA I would think.
AG, it had top speed around 763 km/h at 21,325 feet. So when flown properly it would be more like a meat eater...
I would love to fly this plane in AH but it never reached operational units. There has been discussion if it ever saw action with the evaluation unit...
A quote from "The Big Show" by Pierre Clostermann. To whit: "...An aircraft became visible at tree-top level, approaching rapidly. A curious one, which I couldn't identify. He saw us only at the last moment, because we were just below the cloud base, in the shadows. He broke very quickly and for a moment I had a very full view of him. He was obviously a Jerry - he had black crosses on the wings - but what an odd sort of bird!
Throttle full open, I tried to cut inside his turn, but he was moving astonishingly fast. Longley was better placed, and fired at him, but without effect. The strange aircraft completed his turn, and flew off at full speed. He really was an extraordinary looking customer..."
Of course the plane Clostermann describes could have been any other rarely seen german fighter...I just think that if the aircraft in question would have been jet propelled he would have mentioned it in his book, right? So maybe it was Ta-152 for example...or maybe...
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[This message has been edited by Wmaker (edited 05-05-2001).]
