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It was the Luftwaffe that broke Mach 1 back in the closing days of
WW2. Strange, no one in the Luftwaffe claimed it - unless you count everyone's favorite oddball, Dr. Mutke - who also claims that the Me 262 he defected in is actually *his* personal property! Check out the Wright Patterson Official Manual on Flying the Me-262 (circa 1946). Have it. It has one paragraph that is open to the interpretation you prefer - but they also had plenty of compressibility reports, tuck under events, and other bits that told them something was happening at a bit over 1,000 kph. Still, they never claimed to have broken Mach 1. Wind tunnel experiments and pilot anecdotes show the airframe, more specifically, the engine nacelles and wings, are incapable of exceeding .84. But if a single paragraph is enough to convince you of a non-event, not much I can say that would change your mind. Still, I think it speaks volumes that no one in Germany, officially or unofficially, claimed to have exceeded Mach 1, until fifty years after the "event". I accept that the postwar Pilot's Manual has a problematic mention of transonic flight - that doesn't suggest how, when, or where such an event could have, or did, occur. Even Messerschmitt made no such claim. My opinion, worth as much as yours, is that engineers explained the many high speed crashes and near-fatal events associated with compressibility as transonic events - by 1945-46, most test pilots and aeronautical engineers knew that the 'barrier' was there and its no stretch to assume crashes, and near crashes, during very high speed flight, were the result of teasing the barrier. Re-read the paragraph with that info in mind, and its not so damning. Or, do it my way and interview countless Me 262 pilots from fighter, nightfighter, bomber, and test units, add in US and British test pilots, and see if even ONE suggests that the Me 262 could power itself to Mach 1. It can't, and nothing you can say will change that blunt-nose Jumo OO4B into a transonic-capable engine. No air = no thrust = no possible transonic event, unless you believe you can achieve it in a glider. It says that the Me-262 can break the sound barrier in a shallow dive. So either one of the captured 262s flown by a US pilot broke Mach 1 or the information came from German sources in 1945. ....and German sources used wind tunnel data, not just pilot reports. Also, you are leaving out the possibility that the "mystery Mach 1 aviator" was not a Brit test pilot - who had more flights on captured German jets than we did. Matters not - of the three RAF test pilots that I have talked to, none suggest the Me 262 was capable of anything over Mach .84, dive or no dive. Anyway, the official manual precedes Yeager's official flight- fact. That arcane reference mentions no date, circumstance, or method of proving its single statement. As far as proof, one completely unsubstantiated comment is rarely adequate to be considered "proof". This has been gone over in minute detail by the guys at Stormbirds.com as well as other Me 262 websites and Mutke's claim is not accepted by anyone that flew with him, or flew the Me 262. His mates laugh at him, literally. What does that tell you about how honest the USAF is and how historically accurate aviation history is? You paint with such a broad brush that its hard to see where to start with correcting your claims. I'll stick with this one: you cannot show any proof that an Me 262 broke the speed of sound, beyond that single note in a 60 year old book that doesn't give enough information to check the comment in any way. Tell me which German (or American) pilot took an Me 262 transonic? If you can't, its just a really neat, but unproven, sea story. That doesn't count as "historically accurate aviation history" either, does it? Gordon |
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Or, do it my way and interview countless Me 262 pilots from fighter, nightfighter, bomber, and test units, add in US and British test pilots, and see if even ONE suggests that the Me 262 could power itself to Mach 1. Schuck, Busch, Czypionka, Becker, Rudorffer, Neppach, Hans-E Bob, several others, plus several others on the German side; all meet comments about Mutke and Mach 1 with a sigh and a sad shake of their heads. Here's an idea - take an F-4 to .98, kill the engines, then enter a dive and tell me if you go transonic. If you can't, then explain to me how an Me 262, with FLAT engine intakes and no consideration made to provide airflow at Mach 1, could do the feat? Gordon |
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"Corey C. Jordan" There's a small problem with this myth. At speeds beyond Mach 0.88, the Me 262 begins shedding major components, wings and such. Hell, a CF-100 Mk-1 clunk broke the sound barrier in 1951! I wonder if the F89 or F94, the CF100 contemporaries could do this?? Anyway, aren't the Yanks or Russians first at everything! Hollywood claims they are so it must be true! Ed |
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Hell, a CF-100 Mk-1 clunk broke the sound barrier in 1951! I wonder if the F89 or F94, the CF100 contemporaries could do this?? Anyway, aren't the Yanks or Russians first at everything! Hollywood claims they are so it must be true! Ed Hi Ed You are out by a year and a later version of the aircraft. Jan Zurakowski became the first person to exceed Mach 1 in a straight wing aircraft with out the aid of rocket power. He was flying an Avro Canada CF-100 Mk.4B Canuck (not Clunk as is affectionately known as) R.C.A.F. serial number 18112. Standard procedure for a pilot to achieve Mach 1, was to dive the CF-100 straight down from FL 450 at full power. The CF-100 was very marginal in the supersonic breakthrough. It depended largely on aerodynamic cleanliness of each individual aircraft whether it would break the sound barrier. The CF-100 would hardly ever surpass Mach 1.05. As for the Northrop F-89 Scorpion and Lockheed F-89 Starfire, only the F-89C Starfire could exceed Mach 1 in a shallow dive. Cheers...Chris |
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"Corey C. Jordan" wrote in message ... On 22 Sep 2003 09:55:54 -0700, (robert arndt) wrote: The USAF likes to cover up everything and they are very good at it. But answering your question- an emphatic "No" will suffice. It was the Luftwaffe that broke Mach 1 back in the closing days of WW2. Check out the Wright Patterson Official Manual on Flying the Me-262 (circa 1946). It says that the Me-262 can break the sound barrier in a shallow dive. So either one of the captured 262s flown by a US pilot broke Mach 1 or the information came from German sources in 1945. Anyway, the official manual precedes Yeager's official flight- fact. There's a small problem with this myth. At speeds beyond Mach 0.88, the Me 262 begins shedding major components, wings and such. But Corey, you lied about Copp, so why would anyone at ram ever believe you again? |
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There's a small problem with this myth. At speeds beyond Mach 0.88, the Me 262 begins shedding major components, wings and such. But Corey, you lied about Copp, so why would anyone at ram ever believe you again? How about me? I don't know Copp from Copralite, but I _know_ that the Me 262 was a subsonic airframe with subsonic engines. Gordon |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:33:37 -0700, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote: Snipped botched lobotomy induced drivel.... I thought California was restricting internet access at State institutions. Guess they haven't gotten to Tarver's ward yet.... I recently read a newspaper story about a Jackass that wandered away from a petting zoo and was struck by some dork doing 120 mph in a WRX. Figured he was still in the hospital.... I wonder if Tarver even knows what a WRX is? I'm pretty sure he can't spell it. Finally, is this a relative of your's Tarver? From Annanova.com: "A student cut off his own penis and his tongue after drinking an infusion of the latest drugs craze to sweep Germany. The 18-year-old, only named as Andreas W, from Halle in Germany drank a tea made with the hallucinogenic angels' trumpet plants. His mother said: "Andreas was behaving normally the whole day until he left the house and disappeared into the garden for a couple of minutes." When he returned to the house he was wearing a towel wrapped around him and was bleeding heavily from his mouth and between his legs. The emergency doctor who arrived a few minutes later said the student had cut off his penis and his tongue with garden shears and it was impossible to reattach the organs." I ask because you have a lot in common, including not being able to talk about getting laid.... 5 little known facts about Tarver: 5) His favorite pickup line is; "hey babe, your place or my moms?" 4) His greatest moment of clarity arrived and all he could say was, "Someone pull this wolverine off my nutsack!" 3) Chuck Yeager stopped by to see his simulator, but figured he didn't want to sit in another AN-AL-2003 certified Cambodian fart basket. 2) Tarver is really a cranky South L.A. Korean grocer. 1) The inside of his hat smells like someone cured a Christmas ham in it. Widewing (C.C. Jordan) http://www.worldwar2aviation.com http://www.netaces.org http://www.hitechcreations.com |
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Hi all,
The 'Welch/Yeager' argument conveniently ignores the NAA flight records for the period in question. Either Blackburn didn't have these for his book or chose to ignore them, but they clearly detail Welch's undercarriage problem on October 1, 1947 and also detail the redesign necessary prior to the next flight with the undercarriage functioning. To suggest that NAA had to bolt the gear down to prevent Welch going supersonic is ridiculous. Incidentally, Blackburn also conveniently neglects to include the fact that Welch had a P-82 chase for the first flight; it would have been difficult (not to say crass) for Welch to sneak off and break the sound barrier with a chase craft trying to determine the damage caused by the undercarriage malfunction which happened during climb-out on flight number 1. Much as I love the F-86, it wasn't first to Mach 1. There is (and always has been) no subsitute for good research. Duncan |
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