On 12 Aug 2004 21:51:20 -0700, (Eunometic)
wrote:

For instance something like 30% of accidents were related to nose
wheel collapses. This wasn't the designe but simply the low grade of
steel which was substituted.

At least one of the Operation Lusty pilots got bitten by a nosewheel
collapse.

Interesting, some of the planes (not a 262, I don't think) were
booby-trapped. One had an explosive charge in the wing which was set
to go off when the plane took off. A wire was defective, and it wasn't
until the plane was being disassembled in the U.S. after a successful
life as a demonstrator that the explosive charge went off, destroying
the wing and its potential as a museum piece. Since the plane had been
in service with the Luftwaffe, there was speculation that one of
Germany's "guest workers" had planted the charge at the factory.


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