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Their last piston engined fighter anyway. The HE 162 was delivered in February and didn't see combat until the middle of April, 1945. Its 39,000 foot ceiling was less than the Ta152 but still considered high altitude.
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While definitely not one of the flashy tools in the USAF inventory, the E-9A Widget is great at its intended role: surveillance. To keep the waters surrounding military installations under observation, or making sure that the civilian traffic is accounted for in the Gulf Of Mexico during a live fire operation, these aircraft (there are two of them in the fleet) have excellent radars; not only will they spot a lifeboat up to 25 miles out, they can also determine if there is one person or more on board.
As assigned to the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group, it performs its part of an overall more complex role by letting people know what's going on out there. Whether actually scanning the ocean, or watching the air during live high speed missile tests, the telemetry keeps ground operators in the loop.
If it looks somewhat familiar, it's based on the popular Canadian made De Havilland Dash 8 used for short hop regional airlines.
As assigned to the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group, it performs its part of an overall more complex role by letting people know what's going on out there. Whether actually scanning the ocean, or watching the air during live high speed missile tests, the telemetry keeps ground operators in the loop.
If it looks somewhat familiar, it's based on the popular Canadian made De Havilland Dash 8 used for short hop regional airlines.
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we had one in a park for 31 years before it got restored
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RIP to one of the greatest pilots ever....
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B36 take off and landing (looks like it's from a Jimmy Stewart movie).
Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4 night fighter of NJG6 (Werk Nr 110054) in 1944
Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4 night fighter equipped with Liechtenstein radar and a twin 20mm cannon ventral gun pod for additional firepower
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With all those antennas, the tv reception must have been pretty good in there.
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That Henschel Hs 117 surface-to-air missile was more advanced than you'd think. In development (it would have been in production by 1946 or 1947) was a televised remote control system, the operator would watch where the missile was aimed and control it like a video game. This would have been implemented on the Mistel Bombers as well.
This was well within their reach, Germany had already televised the 1936 Olympic Games and had other remote control (wire guided) missiles in use.
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