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To: pabianice

wow, thats just way to cool. id pay good money to ride in this plane if it was a 2 seater. btw, what always surprised me is just how small the early jets were, ie the aircobra, this messerschimdt, etc etc. even the mig 15 was a smallish bird. state dept, sheesh, what more needs be said?


3 posted on 01/13/2006 8:19:52 AM PST by son of caesar (son of caesar)
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To: son of caesar

This jet was definitely not small. Even today it looks sleek - truly revolutionary! Now if they'd just get around to re-building a 'Stuka'......


6 posted on 01/13/2006 8:23:55 AM PST by Al Simmons ('A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user' - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: son of caesar
even the mig 15 was a smallish bird.

Yep. I actually sat on the wing of one while watching a concert once, amazingly small even compared to small modern fighters like the F-16. A club in Germany had purchased it and put it inside.

9 posted on 01/13/2006 8:26:08 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: son of caesar
the aircobra

Airacobra was prop driven.


39 posted on 01/13/2006 8:46:05 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: son of caesar

At the Air & Space museum in DC there is a catwalk around it so you can walk right over the nose and look in the cockpit. It sure doesn't look roomy - I am 5' 5" and I suspect a lot of Luftwaffe pilots weren't much bigger.


58 posted on 01/13/2006 9:07:23 AM PST by ko_kyi
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