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To: NonZeroSum
The "touch-and-go" maneuver was the first time ever for a rocket-powered airplane

Not sure if that really true

The Junkers Ju.248/Messerschmit Me.263 did start flight trials and may have done "touch-and-go's"


5 posted on 06/27/2002 11:28:34 AM PDT by tophat9000
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To: tophat9000
A "touch-and-go" is just that, touch down like your landing and then back up and go around …you don’t necessarily have to stop and restart the engine. The engine just needs to be throttleable & the aircraft have a conventional landing gear

You probably get killed in a Me163 trying a "touch-and-go" with it skid and trolley landing gear

But the later Junkers Ju.248/Messerschmit Me.263 did have the tools to do a "touch-and-go" conventional landing gear & throttleable engine

I can't say it did but it had the tools

11 posted on 06/27/2002 11:53:30 AM PDT by tophat9000
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To: tophat9000
"The Junkers Ju.248/Messerschmit Me.263 did start flight trials and may have done "touch-and-go's"

I am not positive but seems like I remember a discovery channel program that said that the Germans rocket plane took off on a heavy sled with wheels that fell away after take off. It landed on skids which would have made touch and go's unlikely.

12 posted on 06/27/2002 12:02:43 PM PDT by monday
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