 | The Ta-152.... The Best High Altitude Fighter?????| Aviation Discuss The Ta-152.... The Best High Altitude Fighter????? in the World War II - Aviation forums; Throwing a slightly different angle to this argument. How would the Meteor III far in this discussion. It was faster ... |
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06-06-2007, 07:06 AM
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| Throwing a slightly different angle to this argument. How would the Meteor III far in this discussion. It was faster than the TA152, lacked its agility was better armed, performed well at altitude and had a good range.
In most respects it was considered a better fighter than the Tempest which was no slouch.
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06-06-2007, 08:19 AM
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Country:  | The pilots appreciated the additional power provided by the Meteor III relative to the Meteor I, as well as the improved view with the new canopy. However, the ailerons had been deliberately wired to be "heavy" to prevent aerobatic maneuvers from overstressing the wings, and pilots complained that flying the aircraft could be very tiring; this had not been a problem with the Meteor I, since it hadn't been cleared for aerobatic maneuvers. Pilots also complained that the machine tended to "snake" at high speed, limiting its accuracy as a gun platform, and it tended to become uncontrollable in a dive due to compressibility buffeting. However, the aircraft was basically liked. A flight combat exercise against the excellent Hawker Tempest V piston fighter concluded:
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The Meteor III is superior to the Tempest V in almost all departments. If it were not for the heaviness of its ailerons and the consequent poor maneuverability in the rolling plane, and the adverse effect of snaking on it as a gun platform, it would be a comparable all-round fighter with greatly increased performance.
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06-06-2007, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus  I think so... | Yes Adler banned him. He kept registering with different aliases after having been banned multiple times.
__________________  We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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06-06-2007, 12:39 PM
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06-06-2007, 12:46 PM
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__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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06-06-2007, 01:27 PM
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| Roger.
__________________ We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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06-06-2007, 01:52 PM
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and yes it has something to do with the Ta 152H-1
back soon ~ | |
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06-06-2007, 02:17 PM
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06-06-2007, 02:35 PM
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I think my hair would stand up if I ever touched something authentic like this. | |
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__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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Country: | Soren and all, what would the scenery have been if there had been as many Ta 152H-1's and C's as P-51D at the end of 1944?
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