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Like the Go229, not a good plane to fly in if you intend to survive the war.
100% loss rate, with 100% aircrew fatalities.
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If you're talking about the Natter, I'm sure it was far from being a safe plane to fly but according to "German Aircraft of World War 2" by Kenneth Munson there were a half dozen successful manned test flights where the pilots survived. I know that Wikipedia says there were no successful manned flights but I have read some other books on German WWII aircraft that also state there were some successful test flights.Like the Go229, not a good plane to fly in if you intend to survive the war.
100% loss rate, with 100% aircrew fatalities.
Really, sources please? Close Air Support again p.115 - "A political decision removed them but the RAAF continued to fly close-support missions with Curtiss Kityhawks, although with less accuracy and a higher casualty rate as these fighters were not so robust on the jungle airstrips as the Vengeance's had been".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vultee_A-31_Vengeance
Like the Go229, not a good plane to fly in if you intend to survive the war.
100% loss rate, with 100% aircrew fatalities.
I think he was talking about the Natter, it only made about a dozen test flights before the war ended and about half of those flights were successful but many sources state that none of them were successful like wikipedia.Per sortie!?
I think he was talking about the Natter, it only made about a dozen test flights before the war ended and about half of those flights were successful but many sources state that none of them were successful like wikipedia.
Interesting, so that's two confirmations of successful flights.The Smithsonian site is one with 3 successful manned flights following upon the failed one.
Read it again. You actually cited the right areas. (engine especially.) Not suited to the work. You make it easy.
The Horten iX / Horten 229
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Only two were built, one of them crashed during a test flight, but it did at least take off, so it can be considered experimental unlike those other late war german airplane concepts that never left the drawing board. And regarding the coolness factor I consider it about as cool as a WW2 design can get.
I think the 229 is one of the coolest designs of any era.The Horten iX / Horten 229
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Only two were built, one of them crashed during a test flight, but it did at least take off, so it can be considered experimental unlike those other late war german airplane concepts that never left the drawing board. And regarding the coolness factor I consider it about as cool as a WW2 design can get.
I've never heard of this rumor but that's what it sounds like, a rumor but in the last days of the war, I suppose anything was possible.Is there any truth to the rumor that a mock dog fight between FW-190 & HO-229 occurred?
I believe the rumored rumor was a Me 262 vs the wing, and the 262 was out-performed.