TA152s were used to protect Me262 on takeoff and landing becuase the
underdeveloped Jumo 004B Jet engines had very restricted acceleration
and could easily be bounced by allied aircraft.

The 004 were outstanding engines and few suffered failures in the test
programme. Unfortunately, or fortunately, wartime shortages meant that the
production 004B would have subtle differences to the hand-built 004s in use
previously, with the end result that they sucked. Still, they didn't suck as
bad as history makes us believe - air starts WERE possible, and if pilots
minded their pre-flight instructions, problems were rare. Of greater
importance, the landing gear rate of failure and production defects (caused by
using slave labor) were appalling.

It is said that when
TA152s were in the air no Me262s were ever lost.

The airfield protection Staffeln used VERY few Ta 152s - instead, most were the
later marks of FW 190 D-series. Ta 152 high-altitude interceptors don't help
much when you are trying to protect low and slow "Turbos" in the traffic
pattern from Mustangs. The specialized, low alt Ta 152 might have done better,
but there were few to be had.

The aircarft could opperate at 470mph and at altitudes of nearly
45,000 ft and had a pressursied cabin. It was designed to take on
B29s.

Hard to believe. The RLM didn't field aircraft for non-existant threats; quite
the opposite, they rarely reacted in a timely fashion to actual, present
threats. The Ta 152 series was not intended specifically to counter the B-29 -
the great speed of the Tank fighter was intended to be used against Mustangs
and Mosquitos, and other fast targets that could not adequately be countered by
more conventional fighters, such as the tired old "Me". The Ta would have made
a fine bomber destroyer, but its not likely it was designed and fielded with
the B-29 in mind.

With an Armament of 4 x 20mm and 1 x 30mm cannon it had the
power to do so.

Few carried that armament, and the Ta 152 program was cancelled before the war
ended, while the Do 335 remained on the construction orders right to the end.
I believe if the B-29 ever arrived over Europe during the war, it would have
been met by the Dornier and the Me 262, which were the fighters that were still
intended to be built as of late April 45.

v/r
Gordon
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USN SAR Aircrew

"Got anything on your radar, SENSO?"
"Nothing but my forehead, sir."