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[Max-U52]

I still would have loved to see the meteor go up against the me-262.

[Son of a gun-ner]

I still would have loved to see the meteor go up against the me-262.

Somehow I think the meteor would have been more manoeuvrable

[Son of a gun-ner]

I'll get me coat, I was thinking of the Me-163 oops

[jarndice]

You know what they say---What goes around comes around.
I kicked off with the DH Comet and here we are with the Me 163 Komet,
One powered by 4 DH Ghost Turbo Jets and the other powered by a single Walther Liquid Fuelled Rocket Motor.

[Son of a gun-ner]

I don't think a Leyland Comet would fair against either, would have to have some serious AA gun on the back.

Now that's a truck I wouldn't mind having on a heng long chassis. . . . And back around to being on topic

[jarndice]

Gary, Adolf Galland flew the Me 262 in WW2 and after the nastiness finished he took up the job of senior Airforce commander in the Argentinian Airforce and in that role he got to fly the Meteor,
I think I have his comments on the various differences between the 2 types somewhere but I cannot bring them to hand at the moment.

[Son of a gun-ner]

Gary, Adolf Galland flew the Me 262 in WW2 and after the nastiness finished he took up the job of senior Airforce commander in the Argentinian Airforce and in that role he got to fly the Meteor,
I think I have his comments on the various differences between the 2 types somewhere but I cannot bring them to hand at the moment.

Just found this comment of his online.

During his time with the Argentine Air Force (FAA) he flew the British Gloster Meteor. Galland commented, mindful it was a contemporary to the Me 262, that it was a fine aircraft. He claimed that if he could have fitted the Meteor engines to the Me 262 airframe he would have had the best fighter in the world.

[jarndice]

Don't talk to me about "Leyland Trucks"
We ran an almost exclusive fleet of "AEC" Trucks,
A mix of Mercury's, Mandator's, Mammoth's and Marathon 2s,
We had a couple of Mercury 10 tonne rigid' flatbeds on order from our usual dealer in Aylesbury,
The year before Leyland had bought out AEC but the AEC truck range was still in production,
So what came into the yard ?
2 Leyland Comets,
Both the AEC and the Leyland had the "Ergonomic Cab but the difference was Quality versus cheap.
Wherever you looked in the Comet was Matte Black and Plastic, in the AEC there was Chrome everywhere and an Enamel AEC Badge on the top of the engine,
The Drivers would spend their own time polishing those AECs simply because they looked so good, the cheap and nasty Leyland's would have been lucky if they got a bucket of water thrown over them,
Anyway, The old man came out of the office and said to the delivery drivers don't get out lads just take them back to Aylesbury.
Within a year the fleet was a combination of Scanias and Volvos and a few aging AEC Flatbeds.
Sorry Mick you rubbed a raw nerve.
Thanks for saving me the bother of checking Herr Gallands Comments.

[Son of a gun-ner]

LOL, well, most of them ended up in India and they loved them, I guess the people there don't whinge as much as us Brits lol.

[Max-U52]

Gary, Adolf Galland flew the Me 262 in WW2 and after the nastiness finished he took up the job of senior Airforce commander in the Argentinian Airforce and in that role he got to fly the Meteor,
I think I have his comments on the various differences between the 2 types somewhere but I cannot bring them to hand at the moment.

I remember his comment when he first flew the 262 - it felt like the angels were pushing. The 262 did have fairly poor engines, especially by today's standards, but Die Schwalbe will always be my personal favorite aircraft of all time, with or without those four bad-ass 30mm cannons in the snout. You can get a recreation here in the states, either single or dual seat, for just a measly million bucks. Someday.