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From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop)
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Subject: Re: Jet kills by prop planes
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Date: 7 Feb 91 01:45:22 GMT
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From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop)
elec140@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:

>I remember reading a book by a WWII pilot who flew Hawker Tempest's. He said
>that they occasionally managed to shoot down a ME-262. I think the standard
>technique was to try and get them on their landing approach, although
>anti-aircraft fire made this very risky.

     Yeager got one in a P-51, while the 262 was landing.

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