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Hello,
Sorry but this is a wrong explanaition and claim.
The Jumo 004B was inferior to the Jumo 004A, because it was developed as a save alloy engine, able to be mass produced.
The Jumo 004A was from higher grade alloys, which were short at Germany during the war and the Jumo 004A was more reliable, more powerfull and had a longer service life then the Jumo 004B.
It might have finished the war against Japan but it didnt win it
The 004A was heavier, had a shorter service life and suffered from harmonic vibration at certain RPM. The 004B produced slightly less thrust but was lighter than the 004A, had a longer service life and were modular so they could be changed on the aircraft quickly in the field.
"IF" the bomb and a way to deliver it was around 3 years earlier I think there's little doubt it "would have" finished AND won the war.
True but it would probably have taken more than 2 bombs to get the Japanese to surrender in 1942
Meteors were not the equal to the F-86 in the air superiority role, as RAAF 77 sqn experiences in Korea clearly show. Moreover, the RAAF wantedthe F-86 in preference to the meteor when its P-51s were to be replaced, and indeed, the Avon Sabres rapidly replaced the Meteors on strength as soon as could be done. Meteors had a short operational life in the RAAF, whereas the Sabres flew for the RAAF for over 10 years, were placed in storage and then sold to the Malaysians who used them for another 10 years.
There was no doubt down here about which a/c was superior
At the onset, the Meteor pilots were training and chasing "doodlebugs", the Me262 pilots were training at the front in combat situations. So the Me262 pilots had a head-start on the RAF pilots in that regard.
And unlike the Bf109s or Fw190s, all Me262 pilots were seasoned, so an encounter with a P-80 or a Meteor would pit the Allied pilot against a skilled adversary with a repertoire of tactics.
Wilson was wounded, but managed to keep control over his plane and get rid of the pursuer. Other two pilots - Cedrik Thomas and Kenneth Blight hurried to the aid of the commander, and several MIGs dived away after an unsuccessful attempt to get on tail of the Blight's aircraft. Wilson managed to make it to the base on his severely damaged plane. Later such a big hole was found on one of the wings, that a man might freely have crawled through it... In the meantime the MIGs piloted by pilots N.V.Babonin and A.A.Svintitskiy succeeded in a dog fight against the other four Meteors led by Jeffrey Thornton. Thornton had noticed the MIGs attacking from the sun, and ordered to his comrades on the radio to evade. However, when the four dropped the MIGs off their tails, one of Meteors had disappeared. It was the machine of the pilot Ron Guthrie. His Meteor was badly shot, Guthrie ejected and was taken prisoner by the North Koreans (on a photo to the right - R. Guthrie in a Chinese POW camp).
(Soviet Comment)"The victory was added to the Babonin's account. He managed to set ablaze one of the engines of the Guthrie's Meteor from a distance of 400-500 m, but the aircraft kept flying. Then Babonin came closer and, having shot a burst at the enemy fighter from 100-200m, saw the pilot ejecting from the disintegrating plane".
and so on....
Vladimir Kroupnik. Meteors vs MIGs
Wilson was wounded, but managed to keep control over his plane and get rid of the pursuer. Other two pilots - Cedrik Thomas and Kenneth Blight hurried to the aid of the commander, and several MIGs dived away after an unsuccessful attempt to get on tail of the Blight's aircraft. Wilson managed to make it to the base on his severely damaged plane. Later such a big hole was found on one of the wings, that a man might freely have crawled through it... In the meantime the MIGs piloted by pilots N.V.Babonin and A.A.Svintitskiy succeeded in a dog fight against the other four Meteors led by Jeffrey Thornton. Thornton had noticed the MIGs attacking from the sun, and ordered to his comrades on the radio to evade. However, when the four dropped the MIGs off their tails, one of Meteors had disappeared. It was the machine of the pilot Ron Guthrie. His Meteor was badly shot, Guthrie ejected and was taken prisoner by the North Koreans (on a photo to the right - R. Guthrie in a Chinese POW camp).
(Soviet Comment)"The victory was added to the Babonin's account. He managed to set ablaze one of the engines of the Guthrie's Meteor from a distance of 400-500 m, but the aircraft kept flying. Then Babonin came closer and, having shot a burst at the enemy fighter from 100-200m, saw the pilot ejecting from the disintegrating plane".
and so on....
Vladimir Kroupnik. Meteors vs MIGs
As I understand it, the German Me 262 pilots were specially selected "Top Guns."
That would arguably account for the difference between what they were able to achieve in combat hours between engine overhauls and those achieved by "Watson's Whizzers." Also the need for survival in combat would necessarily impose an absolutely iron-clad discipline in terms of their treatment of their machines.
Were the early Meteor pilots specially selected or just drawn from the pool of available pilots like a normal Squadron.
the average German pilot, who might be lucky to have 10 hours training consisting of a few tow hops in gliders if he was lucky, compared to about 350 hours for the average allied pilot. What was still rare in the allied camp, even in 1945, was that rare ability to shoot down large numbers of enemy a/c.
As I understand it, the German Me 262 pilots were specially selected "Top Guns."