Anonymous commented at 2016-01-13 14:20:44 » #1882362

I like that they stuck a tailhook onto it. There were actual plans for a carrier based Me-262, though it was far uglier because they moved the cockpit far more forward.

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Anonymous commented at 2019-05-23 13:24:18 » #2382709

Never heard of such plans or design...more like fantasy cooked up on "Luft'46", or the like. There's no logic to that sort of idea.

The designers would have known trying to make this thing deck-friendly would have been suicide because of poor engine response (made worse by the widely spaced engines), not to mention the nightmare of the structural changes so it could take the abuse. The size of this would have also been an issue.

Given the other designs made during the war, it would have been more logical to use a clean-sheet design...and a smaller one at that.

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