 | Flying Me163| Aviation Discuss Flying Me163 in the World War II - Aviation forums; Originally Posted by Glider
Originally Posted by syscom3
Fly it in formation with a Remote Control B17 or Lanc! That ... |
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01-19-2006, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 Fly it in formation with a Remote Control B17 or Lanc! That would be a photo to show at your local pub! | Shouldn't that be a B24 or a Lanc?
Sorry, cheap shot I know, but couldn't resist it | The B24's were too fast for the Me163 to successfully intercept. Or the Me163 pilots were laughing so hard at such an easy target, they lost concentration and missed them.
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01-19-2006, 04:48 PM
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Country:  | Too fast?? How, a B-24J has a max speed of 290mph, the ME-163 had a max speed of 596mph (960km/h) at 32,800 ft. (10,000m). If anything the 163 was too fast to intercept the B-24, however if it can successfully engage the slower B-17 then it can engage the B-24. I will agree though that the 163 pilots probably were laughing at suck an easy target, whether they missed or not is a different question, we will just have to look at the statistics.
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01-19-2006, 04:59 PM
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| I think Syscom was joking re the speed.. Hitting anything in a Me163 was in my mind a major feat. With a very high closing speed and the ballistics of the 30mm 108 any hit would have been hard. | |
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01-19-2006, 05:07 PM
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| I was joking 
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Me too. I had once the possibility in the early 90īs to have a look at some of the construction works (wing assembly) of this glider back in Frankfurt. Great work.
I also was surprised that it has such an exzellent rate of glide (1:24), particularly for the early 40īs were such rates were only achievable with high performance gliders.
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| That is a suprise, very impressive. | |
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Country:  | historically it was a death sentance carried out. consumed too much liquids and result of kiiling too many good pilots. What a waste of a/c design and manufacture. 12 kills recoreded for JG 400. I knew a couple of pilots with JG 400, Rudi Opitz being one who was very open about his dislike being in the wing. although his harrowing flights he would not have missed for the world, he knew they were all pathfinders to a new era. Sadly many of his pilot Kameraden fell while on landing the kleine bombe
it is now wonder that many of the rocket kids went over to JG 7 Me 262's. | |
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01-19-2006, 05:20 PM
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Country: | I know syscom, but I felt like commenting all the same.
I'm not surprised either Erich, I would much rather fly a Me-262 than an Me-163, at least you know it is not going to blow up on you. They still had courage to fly such a death trap and I respect them for that.
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01-19-2006, 06:46 PM
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Country: | Many years ago when I lived in Montreal, I had a neighbor who claimed to have flown the -163. I don't remember his name but he said hes was a "factory test pilot." At that time this fellow had to be in in his mid 60's (1984). He told me he crashed in a Komet and was hospitalized for almost a year. He was severy burned on one arm and around his neck. God I wish I could remember his name!!!!
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Country:  | Wow Id love to fly that 163. Im with FBJ though, Id put an engine in it!
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01-20-2006, 08:02 PM
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| Myself, I would have been first in line to transfer out of JG 400, I would rather have been flying the 262, 190,109 or even a JU 52. as Erich pointed out....what a wast of good pilots...so many deaths in this bird for so few kills, and so much wasted technology that could have been used better in other drawing board developments.....He 219 for example...TA 183, ETC...ETC...ETC...
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01-20-2006, 10:26 PM
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| We now know the Me163 was a waste. But in 1943/44....... the Germans didnt.
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01-21-2006, 03:27 AM
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Country: | how do they get the glider up? i'm assuming it's not winch launched, if it's towed what's it towed by?
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