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and they sure did, a week after the outbreak of WWII the Germans were already fiddling with jet engines











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umm...OK, that's interesting! ;-) lol...

Loverly shots, just a weirld looking aircraft..:-)

Err...the He-178 already fley in the last days of August, before the outbreak of WW2.

Neat looking model nevertheless.

You forget to mention that it could only fly for 20 minutes or so because the fan blades melted.

You forget to mention that it could only fly for 20 minutes or so because the fan blades melted.

8 minutes was the endurance attained...i improoved on that and u can fly for an hour or so on mine hehehe better fan blades i guess

whn i showed my Gloster Pioneer off, Josif Smurflin (Silent Exploder at the time) asked for the He178...and so did a couple people so here she is

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Where's the prop

Regards,
Stratobat

Where's the prop

i was wondering the same thing but u know the crazy germans and their strange ways pfff! a plane with no prop!!! geeez! :-/

Way ahead of the time,I guess.

Oh,btw: Does she have a VC?

Way ahead of the time,I guess.

But very slightly behind the british.

But very slightly behind the british.

Not until 1944...

You say that, but Mr Whittle had the jet engine invented before the chaps at Heinkel. I'll grant you that you had a jet plane before we did, but it could fly for all of eight minutes. Our first jet powered aircraft could go on forever.  ;D

The thing is, the German military might have been faster to utilise new inventions, but the British military always had them first.

We didn't need all that new stuff. We could shoot down tens of thousands of aircraft with planes developed in the 1930s, which even still hat props!  ::)

I'd like to know how the war had turned out if the idiots in the RLM had given green lights to the Me 262 much earlier.

But in the end...Good 'ol American values triumphed!

insert dripping sarcasm

[quote]We didn't need all that new stuff. We could shoot down tens of thousands of aircraft with planes developed in the 1930s, which even still hat props!

Well, we picked up Harry Truman floating down from Independence
We said What about the war?, he said Good riddance
We said What about the Bomb, are you sorry that you did it?
He said Pass me that bottle, and mind your own business


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