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To: Bombardier

I'd have to add the Me-262. While primative, it was a long way ahead of any other plane of it's time. We're lucky Hitler prefered bombers and not fighters otherwise it would have been in production and combat worthy a year sooner.
It would be like a mach 3+ fighter suddenly appearing now.


107 posted on 08/27/2004 6:28:36 PM PDT by ProudVet77 (Proud to be a FReeper)
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To: ProudVet77
I'd have to add the Me-262.

Not really. While slower, the RAF's Gloster Meteor with that big broad chord wing would have taken the Me-262 in a close-in knife fight.

And at longer ranges the Me-262's big bomber destroying 30mm cannon with really low MV and RPM wouldn't land a round on a manouvering target. Dead meat to the Meteor's high velocity 20mm's

132 posted on 08/28/2004 4:36:28 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
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