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Aerospace Pictures and Art Thread


LostCosmonaut

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I didn't realize they actually made any of those.

That one crashed.

 

"The aircraft in this photo (V083) ‘Wilma Jean’ was the 50 mm cannon-armed Me 262 A-1a/U4 prototype, a bomber killer. Unfortunately, on the 30th of June, during a ferrying flight, one of the engines began shedding turbine blades, and the resultant vibration caused a tailplane malfunction that placed the jet into an uncontrollable dive. The pilot, Ludwig Hofmann (a former Luftwaffe’s Me 262 test pilot), managed to bail out and deploy his parachute before blacking out, thus surviving the event although suffering several contusions and severe bruising from "head to toe"."

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