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The Me 163 Komet is world-famous for being the first rocket-powered warplane, the first "Flying Wing", and the fastest aircraft in all of World War 2, among many other incredible accomplishments.
Of course, all of that actually counts for nothing, given that they ended up killed more of their own pilots than enemy aircraft. It's something that the Komet's legions of fanboys generally don't like to discuss; the RESULTS.
The Komet featured many other delights, such as a wooden frame (in a ROCKET-PROPELLED airframe) constructed by furniture companies, guns that ran out of bullets in seconds, a flight speed so high that pilots couldn't draw a bead on enemy bombers, the necessity of burning-off all the fuel to attack as a *glider*, no landing gear, an expectation to operate in the stratosphere with no pressurized cockpit, a canopy that bolted the pilot in...
Well, I could go on and on, but I think you have an idea of where this is going. It's another Warplane Disaster, and it such a huge debacle that I had to make this episode a 2-part presentation --- the mere fact that so many people are stupid enough to lionize this lemon demands it! Watch this and see for yourself.
I'll post my sources for this episode in the description of Part 2.
Also, this is one of the presentations that meaninter03 wasn't able to help me with, so there may be spelling and/or grammatical errors.
Of course, all of that actually counts for nothing, given that they ended up killed more of their own pilots than enemy aircraft. It's something that the Komet's legions of fanboys generally don't like to discuss; the RESULTS.
The Komet featured many other delights, such as a wooden frame (in a ROCKET-PROPELLED airframe) constructed by furniture companies, guns that ran out of bullets in seconds, a flight speed so high that pilots couldn't draw a bead on enemy bombers, the necessity of burning-off all the fuel to attack as a *glider*, no landing gear, an expectation to operate in the stratosphere with no pressurized cockpit, a canopy that bolted the pilot in...
Well, I could go on and on, but I think you have an idea of where this is going. It's another Warplane Disaster, and it such a huge debacle that I had to make this episode a 2-part presentation --- the mere fact that so many people are stupid enough to lionize this lemon demands it! Watch this and see for yourself.
I'll post my sources for this episode in the description of Part 2.
Also, this is one of the presentations that meaninter03 wasn't able to help me with, so there may be spelling and/or grammatical errors.
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The real reason the Me-262's combat debut was delayed, was not due to Hitler's insistence it be manufactured as a fast bomber, but due to problems manufacturing its engines. See Wikipedia's article on the Junkers Jumo 004.