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From: smith@acpy01
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Subject: Re: Jet kills by prop planes
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.014609.2803@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:46:09 GMT
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From: smith@acpy01 ()
>From: elec140@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
>In article <1991Feb4.044425.9461@cbnews.att.com>, newave!john@uunet.UU.NET (John A. Weeks III) 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.

An oldtimer that I fly R/C planes with was a fighter pilot who flew the
P-51D Mustang as an escort for the B-17 bombers. He showed me his gun
camera footage of his shooting down of a ME-262. He spotted the plane from
high up, made a screaming dive with his airspeed indicator in the red, and
shot from behind. The ME-262's canopy flew off, but the pilot never ejected
and the jet went down. He said Mustang wings could shear off at very high speed
dives. He said the only way to shoot down the jets was then they were
taking off or landing, or from a high speed dive. This guy also survived
a midair collision with another Mustang.

Bob Smith