#1 Jet of World War II

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Greg Hennessy writes:
On 19 Jul 2003 05:29:09 GMT, nt (Gordon) wrote:

that the Mosquito was the only air threat that conventional
forces were simply never able to overcome.

One wonders about the potential of the Douglas Mixmaster for the very same
reasons.

The airplane that begins to look rather unreal would be a bomber
version of the F-12 Rainbow. (About th emost beutiful airplane ever
built). The F-12 was intended to be a long range high altitude photo
and radar recon airplane, and was capable of _cruising_ at 400 mph TAS
at 40,000', while carrying a 10,000# payload. for about 1500 miles.
It would have taken something like a Sabre to intercept it.

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Pete Stickney
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