Christian wrote: > 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" :-) > >
Most were killed during takeoff or landing, but they were also shot down during missions (It was just much harder). Heck, there was a case in the Korean War where 8 MiG-15's jumped 4 Sea Furies, losing 1 MiG, 2 damaged MiG's, and a possible 2nd kill. The Sea Furies were undamaged. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
