Galland has a right to his opinion- all jet flyers do. There are those
today who would pick foreign aircraft to fly other than our own. But
then again Galland only flew the Me-262... he never flew a Vril-7 or
Haunebu disc, did he?

Yeah, as General in charge of all fighter aircraft, his clearance apparently
didn't reach "Ridiculous", to allow him to even hear about such craft.

What do you think his comments would have been
if he flew those craft?

"I felt as if the devil was pushing!"

They got plenty of single-engine time due to engine failure.

Doesn't mean a thing.

Had they removed the synthetics and weaker materials and
replaced them with what the Germans had wanted to use in the Jumo 004
then they would have gotten excellent results.

sooo, then it wouldnt have been a Jumo 004B, would it? It would have been an
American version that would have been, uhh, better than the German one.
Right...?


BTW, Wright's flight handbook for the Me-262 dated 1946 (an official
document) claims the Me-262 could do Mach 1 in a shallow dive. So who
cares about your engine flame-out comments?

Ever try to go Mach 1 in an aircraft that is unpowered? Hint: Jumo engine pod
designers had no concept of how to spike the shock wave as it entered the
engine. That means, once you get to your critical Mach #, the show is over.

Gordon
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