Timeline for Which Allied aircraft scored the most air-to-air kills against the Me 262 in WWII?
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| Oct 17, 2022 at 12:25 | answer | added | Tony Main | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 22, 2020 at 23:07 | vote | accept | Kerry L | ||
| Jan 2, 2020 at 4:27 | comment | added | Tomas By | "Fuel was usually J2 (derived from brown coal), with the option of diesel or a mixture of oil and high octane B4 aviation petrol." (wiki). Lots of Me262 pilots survived being shot down. | |
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| Sep 17, 2018 at 7:41 | comment | added | bigbadmouse | i have no idea, but the gentleman concerned who was there, said that they (ME262s) would literally explode when hit. | |
| Sep 17, 2018 at 7:03 | comment | added | janneb | @bigbadmouse: Interesting. Modern jet fuel, at least, is significantly less flammable than gasoline (more like diesel from a safety perspective). Was WWII German jet fuel different? | |
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| Sep 11, 2018 at 8:39 | comment | added | bigbadmouse | I don't have a resource to cite, but I recall a video interview with a then-elderly Mustang pilot who described the speed of ME262 climb and said he shot one down by out turning it and "setting up a line of 50 cal" for it to fly into. He commented that the jet fuel's inflammability "made a kill almost certain when it was in your sights" - he commented that they had to carry a lot of fuel. | |
| Sep 10, 2018 at 16:51 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | @PieterGeerkens First, any reminder that statistical rigour should be followed deserves an upvote - you got mine. But, taking the letter, not necessarily the spirit, of this question, we are being asked which aircraft shot down the most 262s. Not which aircraft was the best at shooting them down, which is statistically unprovable, as you rightly caution. | |
| Sep 10, 2018 at 16:17 | answer | added | Italian Philosopher | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Sep 10, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | Kerry L | @DavidThornley thanks for the correction, and even more, thanks for your father's service. | |
| Sep 10, 2018 at 15:59 | comment | added | David Thornley | B-17s didn't have door gunners. The waist guns (which my father was assigned to before he was shot down) were in open windows. | |
| Sep 10, 2018 at 11:02 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Some of the "losses" reported on the German side may well have been due to mechanical failure. | |
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| Sep 9, 2018 at 23:55 | comment | added | Kerry L | @PieterGeerkens agreed, likely statisctically insignificant (it could depend on the number combinations of aircraft that actually engaged the 262, and of those numbers which percentage emerged the more victorious, but even so, these are small numbers so yeah, not much statistical significance could be attached). But there is historical curiosity at stake :-) | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 22:30 | comment | added | PGeerkens | According to Wikipedia, "Levine, Alan J. The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1992. ISBN 0-275-94319-4" states that only about 100 were shot down other in the air. If accurate, the sample size is likely much too small for statistical significance of the results by opposing plane type. | |
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