Mark Roberts wrote:
> > Wow. I just thought of some other WWII trivia that's been kicking > around my brain for who-knows-how-many years: Tomorrow, 4 October, > marks the..... 62nd (had to stop and work it out).... anniversary of > the first time a jet aircraft was shot down in combat. The jet was, of > course, a Messerschmitt 262 and the plane that (somehow) succeeded in > shooting it down was a Spitfire Mk XIV. > That's pretty cool. Chuck Yeager shot one down in his P-51D Mustang. Most 262s were vulnerable during landing and I -believe- that the only ones shot down were in the process of landing. Kinda unsporting, but it counts as a "kill" :-) -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
