davebender
1st Lieutenant
Jet wash alone might do the trick. If the Fokker closes to typical WWI era gunnery range the pilot might get his face burned.
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Has anybody ever tried to remove their jacket when behind the wheel of a car ? It ain't easy. I can't imagine trying to do it in the cockpit of any single place aircraft..
1. Get aircraft trimed flying level
2. Unbuckle harnesses and chute
3. Reach over your sholders and pull the jacket over your head as if you were taking off a sweater.
4. Once in your lap, pull your arms out of the sleeves
5. Discard jacket and re-buckle
I also don't see the possibility of 2 .30 caliber machine guns shooting the tail off a Me.262. That would take a LOT of hits. But it'd only take a few hits in the right place to cut a control cable or rod.
But if a aircraft were to lose it's entire tail assembly, it'd go down, because it'd be nose heavy.
Yeah, we didn't use those particular abreveations in 1969. Though we had FIGMO, SNAFU, SOS, BUFF, B1rd, and on and on.Like Tom said, quick or hard throttling would cause great problems with the 262.
Also remember this: Jet engines were a new, magical innovation and most people really didn't know how they worked. So a common knowledge that throwing something into the engine would cause problems may have not been known then. Kinda like asking someone about WTF LOL BRB in 1969.
Early jet engines would sometimes flame out from careless throttle use, sometimes they'd just flame out, and nobody knew exactly why.