Re: Me-262 Flight Video @ ILA 2006, Berlin

* while fighting to regain control of the a/c, usually in a dive. Mutke
accelerated through the dive...


We've gone over this before, Rob. His unit didn't record any "White 9"
(or any other airframe) suffering the type of damage he reported in his
long-post-war claim. Also, the other aircraft he said he was rushing
to defend doesn't show up on any 'damaged' list - since the 8-262
airframes were classified as strategic assets, their status was
routinely, more than weekly, reported to Berlin. His claims were not
made any where near the war - it appears that his memory improved
greatly as the years past, to include details that he never mentioned
to his squadron-mates. The Old Schoolmaster, Heinz Baer, that
supposedly gave him a pass for overstressing his jet, while sacking the
pilot Mutke was rushing to defend, was not the sort of person that
would forgive -anything- in a student pilot. Baer would have known
what happened to Mutke's aircraft and as an example to other students,
Mutke would have been sacked, like everyone else that effed up while
under Baer's charge.

In short, Hans-Guido Mutke was viewed by his fellows as a nutcase.
Even in the modern era, he got no support for his "Mach claim" from
other wartime Me 262 pilots, such as Schuck, Rudorrfer, Busch,
Czypionka etc.

III/KG 51 lost its TO to an uncontrolled dive from great altitude, one
that he intentionally entered in a quest to explain several mysterious
crashes.* The professional aviator plunged to his death locked in
compressibility and reported every condition his plummeting jet
experienced, and even in this 30,000' dive all the way to a crater, the
man didn't appear to pass through the speed of sound. Close, yes, but
those blunt engine nacelles and thick wings held it back. I have no
confidence in Mutke's claim, and he was never able to provide anything
at all to back up his post-war recollection of this historically
unrecorded event.

Gordon

* Later, it was determined that these were caused by runaway elevator
trim. The defect was corrected

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