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From: dutchman@wpi.WPI.EDU (jonathan)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: First Jet-vs-Jet "Kill"?
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.023458.12727@amd.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 19:43:26 GMT
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From: dutchman@wpi.WPI.EDU (jonathan)


In article <1991Jun6.063323.5811@amd.com> U38956%uicvm.uic.edu@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU writes:
>
>In a REAL technical way (I mean REALLY technical), the first jet-to-jet
>kill occured at the end of World War II when a British jet (the Gloster
>Meteor?) flew alongside a German jet bomber, slipped its port wing
                                      ^^^^^^
>under the German's starboard wing, then banked hard right.

Though the Germans did have a jet bomber (a Junkers recce/light bomber
design, I think), I believe the appropriate reference here is to the
jet *bomb*, aka the V1.  The story goes that the Meteor's guns jammed,
so the pilot found another way to take out V1.

--
jonathan drummey
dutchman@wpi.wpi.edu