The Enlightenment wrote:

"Krztalizer" wrote in message
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Is it similar to the one fitted on an experimental Me262C-1a flown
by Heinz
Bar (III./EJG 2 march 1945) depicted as profile #7 in Osprey's
German Jet
Aces of WW2. ?

That particular aircraft/motor combination did not work out too
well. This
configuration was the proposed motor for the production version of
the "Home
Defense Interceptor" took into account various fixes that, it was
hoped, would
keep the damn thing from igniting the entire tail while in
operation.

G

I have a picture of an NF104 starfighter with an rocket motor in an
extension where you would expect to find a drag shute. It apparently
used to climb to 130,000 ft and there by controlled by a reaction
control system while it might find itself in zero G for 1 minute.

Yeah, that'd be the "Space Pilot Trainer." Program canceled after Chuck
Yeager pranged one and a second had the rocket engine explode, taking
off a large chunk of its tail (but the pilot, whose name I cannot
recall, landed it safely). The third one stands on a pole at the Test
Pilot School. (The airframe that was to be converted into a fourth
NF-104 has now been converted into a vehicle for a land speed record
attempt as the "North American Eagle" www.landspeed.com.)

-Marc

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