Erich
the old Sage
Gents I think we are in need of seperating this long thread into two or three especially if we start up again on the 262 vs Meteor or the Arado 234.
I posted the kill info by 352nd fg ace Don Bryan over a Arado 234 didn't I ?
back to the slight variation, RG is correct the Arado was hardly felt but could of been. It was a fantastic recon plane with 2 rearward 2cm weapons fitted. first flown over Normandie beaches taking numerous fotofilms and not touched by any Allied A/c which is surprising to me. Several piston units such as the four engine Ju 290 unit FAgr 5 dumped their Junkers on KG 200 and took hold of a staffel sized unit of Arado 234's in spring of 45 and flew ?recon missions without any Allied interference.
The night version initially was flown by Kurt Welter before he decided upon the me 262A-1a for his nf kommando. Kurt felt that over burning cities that a front cover or darkened windscreen was needed so the earchlights and burning fires would not blind the pilot from underneath. this u it did not have any radar fitted and was the typical recon version with bottom of the glass nose open. Apparently his mentions did get noticed and a revised experimental nose was fitted to house the pilot and right behind him and R/O, the nose was enclosed like other nf's with FuG 218 installed and experiments with the newest Berlin 240A set. But again no operations were done.
Two other nf's of sorts were tested in Italy, kampfgruppe Bonow actually morelike 4-5 pilots but a phone propaganda name was used. the nf's were radarless but under the belly was housed two 2cm weapons and they were used to some effect in Italy on night harassing ground attack missions......
I posted the kill info by 352nd fg ace Don Bryan over a Arado 234 didn't I ?
back to the slight variation, RG is correct the Arado was hardly felt but could of been. It was a fantastic recon plane with 2 rearward 2cm weapons fitted. first flown over Normandie beaches taking numerous fotofilms and not touched by any Allied A/c which is surprising to me. Several piston units such as the four engine Ju 290 unit FAgr 5 dumped their Junkers on KG 200 and took hold of a staffel sized unit of Arado 234's in spring of 45 and flew ?recon missions without any Allied interference.
The night version initially was flown by Kurt Welter before he decided upon the me 262A-1a for his nf kommando. Kurt felt that over burning cities that a front cover or darkened windscreen was needed so the earchlights and burning fires would not blind the pilot from underneath. this u it did not have any radar fitted and was the typical recon version with bottom of the glass nose open. Apparently his mentions did get noticed and a revised experimental nose was fitted to house the pilot and right behind him and R/O, the nose was enclosed like other nf's with FuG 218 installed and experiments with the newest Berlin 240A set. But again no operations were done.
Two other nf's of sorts were tested in Italy, kampfgruppe Bonow actually morelike 4-5 pilots but a phone propaganda name was used. the nf's were radarless but under the belly was housed two 2cm weapons and they were used to some effect in Italy on night harassing ground attack missions......