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nittany03 said:
Congratulations, you had an EP and made a successful landing, but one of the fuel tanks surrounding the cockpit ruptured, so now you're literally getting dissolved Bond villain-style by concentrated hydrogen peroxide. Yes, this is a thing that happened to some poor bastards.
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Is it really an EP when an unpowered belly landing is the normal mode of operations?

For those who don't know what not any is talking
about the Me 163 used a rocket motor that used High Test Peroxide (T-Stoff auf Deutsch) as an oxidizer to mix with C-Stoff to generate thrust. High Test Peroxide is highly volatile and corrosive and could escape from the tanks during the routine controlled crashes that the flight profe called for.
 
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nittany03 said:
Congratulations, you had an EP and made a successful landing, but one of the fuel tanks surrounding the cockpit ruptured, so now you're literally getting dissolved Bond villain-style by concentrated hydrogen peroxide. Yes, this is a thing that happened to some poor bastards.
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Blondes have more fun?
 
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Randy Daytona said:
The Northrop P-61 Black Widow - the first purely built US night fighter.

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Northrop P-61C Black Widow

The P-61 Black Widow was the first U.S. aircraft designed to locate and destroy enemy aircraft at night and in bad weather, a feat made possible by the use of on-board radar. The prototype first flew in 1942.
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Is it really a little known aircraft?

P-61 did get the last kill of WWII though.
 
Griz882

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Pags said:
Is it really a little known aircraft?

P-61 did get the last kill of WWII though.
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Yep, mostly in the ETO where they downed DO-217’s, Bf-110’s, FW-190’s, He-111’s, and a few JU-88’s. They never served in the Med, but in the PTO they did down a Ki-48, G4M, and J1N1 and even a B-29!

The interesting part is that pilots didn’t always fly with the same RIO, so kill credit was confused.
 
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Pags said:
Is it really a little known aircraft?
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To the public, yep. Get past Spitfire, Mustang, and B-17 and even a well educated person will not have any idea about the other aircraft that were instrumental in WW II.
 
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Griz882 said:
Yep, mostly in the ETO where they downed DO-217’s, Bf-110’s, FW-190’s, He-111’s, and a few JU-88’s. They never served in the Med, but in the PTO they did down a Ki-48, G4M, and J1N1 and even a B-29!
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Umm . . .

♪♫ "One of these things is not like the other . . ." ♪♫
 
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wink said:
To the public, yep. Get past Spitfire, Mustang, and B-17 and even a well educated person will not have any idea about the other aircraft that were instrumental in WW II.
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Now you're just arguing for arguments sake. This is an aviation website for aviators. We're not the general public and therefore I assumed the "little known" was focused at us, ie the westland whirlwind.
 
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