Re: OT:Me262 restored to fly...

On Mon, 29 May 2006 10:50:10 -0500, F. George McDuffee
<gmcduffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 28 May 2006 23:37:11 -0700, Protagonist
<szaki10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The first time I realized that Germans had jets was
from the artwork on a Blue Oyster Cult album.

They had the first ones that flew ... and quite a variety
under development.
Actually I think it was the Italians with the Caproni N-1 that
had the first plane w/o a prop. You may or may not think this was
a jet.

see
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/gustin_military/db/ital/N1CAPRON.html


http://images.google.com/images?q=Caproni-Campini+N-1&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

IIRC The Germans tried a thing with the engines on the tips of the propeller
blades .. helicopterish? Something REALLY odd anyway.
--
Cliff
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