Good Morning

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/22/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo, wingspan

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Happy Hump Day, Oppo.

Here’s an interesting photo. On the left is a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (Heinkel called it the Spatz , or Sparrow ), designed in response to the Emergency Fighter Program ( Jägernotprogramm ) to quickly develop a single engine jet fighter in the closing stages of WWII. On the right is a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the world’s first operational rocket-powered fighter and the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 kmh (621 mph) in level flight. In the middle is a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! “prone pilot” testbed, which was used to investigate the inertial forces on a pilot flying while lying on his stomach. Turns out that lying down is a bit better at keeping blood in your head than sitting up, but rearward visibility is pretty much nonexistent, and ejecting is problematic. G suits turned out to be a much more practical solution.

Darkbrador > ttyymmnn 07/22/2020 at 09:15

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Did you know that G erman 747s are fed VW B eetles for breakfast ?

user314 > ttyymmnn 07/22/2020 at 09:37

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Huh, interesting that the He 162 and Me 262 were both named “Swallow”, but the former is spatz but the latter is s chwalbe. 

ttyymmnn > user314 07/22/2020 at 09:45

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Probably my typo. I ran Spatz through the translator and came up with Sparrow . Thanks for pointing that out. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 07/22/2020 at 09:46

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Yeah, that’s what Wiki says too. 

ttyymmnn > Darkbrador 07/22/2020 at 09:49

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Something something eating its y0ung

Cé hé sin > ttyymmnn 07/22/2020 at 10:14

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I’d hazard a guess that the late Eric Brown flew all three of those planes .

ClassicDatsunDebate > ttyymmnn 07/22/2020 at 11:47

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The He162 was called Salamander.

ClassicDatsunDebate > ttyymmnn 07/22/2020 at 11:59

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It’s funny...I’ve gone through all my reference books that pre-date the internet and they all refer to the He162 as Salamander. No mention of Spatz at all.

I sense a rabbit hole I’m gonna go down...

ttyymmnn > ClassicDatsunDebate 07/22/2020 at 12:56

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It’s my understanding that the project that was undertaken to build the He 162 was codenamed Salamander, while the plane itself was called the Swallow, at least by Heinkel . The Air and Space Museum uses Spatz when referring to the He 162. At the end of the day, I believe that either name would work just fine.